Leading At All LevelsTaking Charge of Your Career While Mentoring Others

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Anthropology undergrad

Grad school Grant writer/ Fundraiser

Fundraiser for career center

Career coach

Is This Reality?

… or is it this?

Early career

Mid-career

Later career

Retirement

Career shift:

Intentional or Circumstantial

What Inspires You?

Ingredients of a Career

• Job Function: what you do; your skills• Organization: where you do it; the context• Values: other deciding factors• …and then, there is…the job market.

Job Function: 5-6 Stories (from Work, School and Life)

• Problem• Action• Result

• What are the themes?

• What skills do you like to use?

Problem: Nonprofit was splitting from umbrella, had cash shortfall.

Action: Researched funders, wrote grants, submitted.

Result: Raised $70,000 and saved the organization from closure.

• Which jobs use those

skills?

Type of Organization

• Size• Mission• Structure• Culture• “Industry”

Values

• Skills• Work-life balance• Salary• Location• Mission• Benefits• …and many others…

Criteria 1. Salary 2. Work-life balance

3. Learning

4. Low Stress

5. Location

6. Security

7. Mission

8. Benefits

1. Salary X2. Work-life balance

3. Learning4. Low Stress

5. Location6. Security7. Mission8. Benefits # times picked

Priority of this item

Prioritizing Grid (adapted from Richard Nelson Bolles)

Criteria 1. Salary 2. Work-life balance

3. Learning

4. Low Stress

5. Location

6. Security

7. Mission

8. Benefits

1. Salary X X X X X X X X2. Work-life balance

Salary vs. balance:

2X X X

3. Learning 1 2 X X4. Low Stress 2 3 X5. Location 5 5 5 X6. Security7. Mission8. Benefits# times picked

Priority of this item

Prioritizing Grid (adapted from Richard Nelson Bolles)

Criteria 1. Salary 2. Work-life balance

3. Learning

4. Low Stress

5. Location

6. Security

7. Mission

8. Benefits

1. Salary X X X X X X X X2. Work-life balance

2 X X X

3. Learning 1 2 X X4. Low Stress 1 2 3 X5. Location 5 5 5 5 X6. Security 6 6 6 6 5 X7. Mission 1 2 7 4 5 6 X8. Benefits 1 8 8 8 5 6 8 X # times picked 4 4 1 1 7 6 1 4Priority of this item 3 3 4 4 1 2 4 3

Prioritizing Grid (adapted from Richard Nelson Bolles)

What’s non-negotiable?

1. Location2. Security3. Salary, work-life balance, benefits4. Mission, learning, low stress

Your Vision

Researching Options

• Networking• LinkedIn• Professional Associations (like LLAMA)

The 4 R’s of Informational Interviews

Ron & Caryl Krannich

• Research• Referrals• Read/revise resume• Be Remembered… positively!

Is There a Gap?

You Your Goal

You Your GoalGap

What if You Can’t Get Past the Gap?

• Managing frustration• Keeping career in context• When you want your job to stay the same, but yourcareer field is changing…

Possible Next Steps• Same job, same employer• Get promoted, same employer• New employer, same job function• New “industry,” same job function• New job function, same “industry” • New job function, new “industry”• Entrepreneurship• Retirement

How to Get There?

• Self-awareness• Self-promotion• Goal-setting/vision• Navigating organizational politics• Finding a mentor

Finding a Mentor

• What is a mentor?• How do you find one?• LLAMA Mentoring Program

Enough about you……what about the profession?

Are you a mentor?• How does it benefit you?• How does it benefit the profession?• How to be a good one

– Navigating barriers to mentorship– Providing honest/useful feedback

Generational Issues

• Silent • Baby Boomers• Gen X• Millenials

Setting a Goal

• Specific• Measurable• Attainable• Relevant• Time-bound

– Write it down– Commit to another person

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