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NCHE Women’s Executive Breakfast

Event

Cultivating Your Career Growth – Transitions, Leadership and Mentoring

Katina Lewis MaisonExecutive Director

Division of Government and External AffairsChild Health Advocacy Institute

April 23, 2010

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Focus for Today My background Transitions

Transferable Skills Leadership Storytelling All in 15 minutes

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K. Lewis Maison Education

Bachelors of Science in Marketing Masters of Health Administration Masters of Arts in Urban and Regional Planning

Experience The Johns Hopkins Health System PriceWaterhouseCoopers Children’s National Medical Center

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Transitions Transitions occur at various points in your career

for a multitude of reasons: Personal – ex: pursuing higher education Family Restructuring – spouse, child New Opportunity Matured in current role Reduction in Force (RIF)

Better prepared and (sometimes) welcome transition when you have a ‘toolkit’ of transferable skills

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Transferable Skills ‘Skills you have acquired during any

activity in your life -- jobs, classes, projects, parenting, hobbies, sports, virtually anything -- that are transferable and applicable to what you want to do in your next job’

http://www.quintcareers.com/transferable_skills.html

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Categories of Transferable Skills1

Communication Research and Planning Human Relations Organization Management Leadership Work Survival Understanding Numbers2

1 - http://www.quintcareers.com/transferable_skills.html2 – Added per K. Lewis Maison

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Administrative Fellow

Manager

AssociatePwC

Project Administrator

AdministrativeDirector

Center Director

Next Steps??

Executive Director

Transferable Skills

Career Ladder

Major Life Change

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Management and Leadership Management is a set of processes that can keep

a complicated system of people and technology running smoothly. The most important aspects of management include planning, budgeting, organizing, staffing, controlling, and problem solving.

Leadership is a set of processes that creates organizations in the first place or adapts them to significantly changing circumstances. Leadership defines what the future should look like, aligns people with that vision, and inspires them to make it happen despite the obstacles.

Kotter, J. (1996). Leading Change

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Quiz Developing and Managing a Budget Management

Spearheading new department or divisional committee

Leadership

Story Time Occupational Health Example

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Story Time Career Advancement

Leadership Opportunities Leading recruitment of next fellows (high level of

organization) Developing a COO Forum

Career Limiting Moves (only if you choose not to learn from the experience) Lesson Learned

Court Reporter Comment Late for a 6:30AM Meeting

Preparation – ex: Bioterrorism Project

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Next Steps Am I done? NO How do I envision myself? What steps am I taking to get there?

Three components needed in Senior Leadership

Technical expertise Administrative efficiency and effectiveness Leadership

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Questions