climbing the ladder, or preparing for a bigger role nancy kress university of nevada, las vegas
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Climbing the Ladder,or Preparing for a Bigger Role
Nancy KressUniversity of Nevada, Las Vegas
Climbing the LadderOVERVIEW
• Clarify your career goal • Decide what responsibilities and roles to
tackle• Create a plan to manage your career
PROGRAM• Part 1 – Vision your future– Exercise: Case study to anticipate future
changes
• Part 2 – Know yourself– Exercise: Job Crafting
• Part 3 – Set your goals and create a plan– Exercise: Create a career plan
PART 1Vision your future
Vision your futureWho are you?
Vision your future
• What would my ideal work be?• What work makes me fulfilled and
excited?
Worksheet part 1
Vision your future
• Opportunities in your own organization
Vision your future• Change in manager• Change in the type of work you do• Transfer to another part of the
organization• Change in role• Job redefined or enlarged• Change in employer
Vision your future
• Exercise: Case study to anticipate future changes– Case study 1: Change in Supervisor– Case study 2: Change in Job
PART 2Knowing yourself
Knowing yourself
• Career interests, work values and skills• Assessing skills - what you have and what
to develop• Identify future roles
Knowing yourself
• Core professional interests• Work values• Strongest skills
Knowing yourself• Core professional interests– what activities do you typically perform?– what activities do you find most appealing?
• Work values• Strongest skills
Knowing yourself
• Core professional interests• Work values– financial stability– intellectual challenge– working with people you admire– career opportunities to move up– work/life balance
• Strongest skills
Knowing yourself
• Core professional interests• Work values• Strongest skills– skills you have in abundance– skills you possess but want to strengthen– entirely new skills
Knowing yourself
• Exercise: Job Crafting– visualize job tasks– map job elements in number and scope– reorganize to change quality and quantity
Exercise: Job Crafting
• Current state• Change in mindset• Future state
Managepeople
Complete projects (I initiated)
Library Strategic Planning Actions
Department goals
Research & reading
Professional development
Current State
Attend meetings
Exercise: Job Crafting
• Current state– identify daily/weekly/monthly tasks– convert to building blocks according to time
• Change in mindset• Future state
Worksheet part 2
Exercise: Job Crafting
• Current state• Change in mindset– motive– strength– passion
• Future stateWorksheet part 3
Exercise: Job Crafting
• Current state• Change in mindset• Future state– new tasks– increase/decrease amount of task time
Worksheet part 4
Managepeople
Attend meetings
Library Strategic Planning Actions
Consulting
Attend classes in
Lean
Reading new
researchFuture State
Department goals
Complete projects (I initiated)
Scholarship: research &
writing
Exercise: Job Crafting
• Current state• Change in mindset• Future state– Re-craft tasks to allocate time– create more meaning by crafting more challenge– change relationships– foster high quality connections by changing who
you interact with
Exercise: Job Crafting
• Future state actions
Worksheet part 5
PART 3Set goals and create career path
Set goals and create career path
• Determining time frame and importance• Reviewing and evaluating goals
Homework: create a career plan
Create a career plan
• Review core professional interests, values and skills
• List and describe career opportunities in your organization
• Identify and obtain new skills• Develop a plan
Create a career plan
• Review core professional interests, values and skills
• List and describe career opportunities in your organization
• Identify and obtain new skills• Develop a schedule
Create a career plan
• Review core professional interests, values and skills
• List and describe career opportunities in your organization
• Identify and obtain new skills• Develop a schedule
• Change in manager• Change in the type of work you do• Transfer to another part of the
organization• Change in role• Job redefined or enlarged• Change in employer
Create a career plan
Create a career plan
• Review core professional interests, values and skills• List and describe career opportunities in your
organization• Identify and obtain new skills
– internal organizational training – online courses – professional association resources – university continuing education
• Develop a plan
Create a career plan
• Review core professional interests, values and skills
• List and describe career opportunities in your organization
• Identify and obtain new skills• Develop a plan
Worksheet part 6
Questions?
References• Barden, D. M. "Your Next Few Leaders." The Chronicle of Higher Education
(June 2, 2009).• Berg, J. M., A. Wrzesniewski, and J. E. Dutton. "Perceiving and Responding
to Challenges in Job Crafting at Different Ranks: When Proactivity Requires Adaptivity." Journal of Organizational Behavior 31.2-3 (2010).
• Drucker, P. F. "Managing Oneself." Harvard Business Review 83.1 (2005).• Wellman, N., and G. Spreitzer. "Crafting Scholarly Life: Strategies for
Creating Meaning in Academic Careers." Journal of Organizational Behavior (2010).
• Wrzesniewski, A., and J. E. Dutton. "Crafting a Job: Revisioning Employees as Active Crafters of their Work." Academy of Management Review 26.2 (2001).
• Wrzesniewski, A., J.M. Berg, and J. E. Dutton. "Turn the Job You have into the Job You Want." Harvard Business Review 88.6 (2010).
Contact information
Nancy KressHead, Access & Delivery ServicesUniversity of Nevada Las Vegas LibrariesLas Vegas, [email protected]