8 ways to increase your professional roi by tai goodwin
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8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI
8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI
By Tai GoodwinBy Tai Goodwin
Why We’re Here?
• Who’s Minding the Shop?• PD vs. DP• How to Increase Your Professional ROI• What’s Next?• Wrap Up
8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI
Top Concerns…
Speed to Market
Do we have the right tools?
How much does it cost?
Happy Stakeholders
Assessments & Tracking
Vendors Project Plans
Quality Checks
Smile Sheets
Needs Analysis
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Design Documents
Who’s Minding the Shop?
What does traditional professional development look like for instructional designers and e-learning developers?
What does typical performance management for instructional designers and
e-learning developers look like?
8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI
Development and Performance Goals
Poll…•How many people have development goals?
•How many people have performance goals?
•How many people remember what they are and are clear on how they will help grow their career? (-Not just help them produce more)
8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI
PD vs. DP
Professional Development•Tools•Methods•Tactics•Systems•Typically focused on producing a specific outcome
Developed Professionals
Have an understanding of the relationships, information, influences, and resources needed to impact the business and grow their careers.
8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI
Expertise
Tools
Experience/Education
Professional Growth
Professional Growth
Experience
Tools
Expertise
Building a Solid Career
Developed professionals have the entire package…
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Professional ROI
Investing in your professional development yields better production, higher quality deliverables, possible longevity in your current position, possible opportunity to advance to a higher level within the learning organization.
Becoming a developed professional is about positioning yourself as a leader, asset, a go-to person, and a valued member in and
out of your immediate team.
8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI
Professional ROI
are you seeing in your career?
What
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Professional ROI
Promotion
Qualified for opportunities outside
the learning office
Assigned leadership roles
Invited to participate in industry events
Viewed as a thought leader
Invited to contribute to special projects
8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI
Increasing Your ROI
• Build Your Emotional IQ
The concept of Emotional Intelligence was popularized by Daniel Goleman. Goleman believes that Intelligent Quotient (IQ) accounts for 20% success in a person’s life, whereas most of the remaining 80% factors are based on Emotional Intelligence (EI).
FMI: Institute for Health and Human Potential
8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI
Increasing Your ROI
• Look for Ways to Be Innovative
“Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat” - Anonymous
FMI: Fast Company Slide Show – Innovation Step by Step
8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI
Increasing Your ROI
• Become an Excellent Communicator
Develop a reputation as an outstanding communicator…according to other people.
FMI: Talk Your Way to the Top by Kevin Hogan and Richard Brodie
8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI
Increasing Your ROI
• Be an Intrinsic Learner
One of the things that may get in the way of people being lifelong learners is that they’re not in touch with their passion. If you’re passionate about what it is you do, then you’re going to be looking for everything you can to get better at it. – Jack Canfield
FMI: TED, iTunes University, Open Courseware Consortium
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Increasing Your ROI
• Expand Your External & Internal Network
~ It isn't just what you know, and it isn't just who you know. It's actually who you know, who knows you, and what you do for a living. -Bob Burg
FMI: Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time by Ken Ferrazzi
8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI
Increasing Your ROI
• Stay Aware of Trends
+FMI: Twitter, Google Reader, LinkedIn, ASTD SIGs, Industry forums, your network
8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI
Increasing Your ROI
• Learn the Business Side of Learning
FMI: the Masie Learning Resources Barometer: http://www.masie.com/barometer
Increasing Your ROI
• Break Through Silos to Get the Big Picture
How do you stay connected to what’s happening in, with, and to your organization?
FMI: Your company’s PR department, Internal Communications and Organizational Chart
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What’s Next?
• Develop a personal professional development plan:– Write a personal vision statement of what
you want your career to look like– Take an honest evaluation of where you
are now– List what people, experiences, and
information you need to close the gap– Create a plan for how you will make it
happen– Get support from a mentor or coach to
help you stay on track
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Wrap Up
Questions and Comments?
8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI
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