Making Your Job Work for You

Faye BoundBound Consulting GroupMay 2008www.boundconsulting.com.au

ATEM CENTRAL REGION2008 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Are you are the Master of Your Own Destiny?

What are the Key Messages to South Australian employers?

Management Culture-1) Employees’ needs essential to

success2) Attempting to shift the blame

unacceptable 3) Adequate Investment in retaining4) Organisation’s Image is important

Source 207 Square Holes/SA Great/AIM

Culture

Culture is what is created from the messages that are received about how people are expected to behave in your organisation.

Corporate Vision

“Why we do the things we do”

World ViewSelf EsteemSelf Concept

PersonalityIntelligence

Upbringing &

History

Actual Performance

Choices

Choices

Choices

Choices

Beliefs & Values=

Primary Drivers

Attitude =

Mindset

Skills Bank =

Applications

Behaviours =

Responses

Performance =

Result

Definition of Values

“ideals which give significance to our lives expressed through our priorities…”

B. Hall

Honest Conversations

“..our work, our relationships, and in fact, our very lives, succeed or fail gradually, then suddenly, one conversation at a time.”

Fierce Conversations-Susan Scott

To Leave a Legacy

(SPIRIT)Meaning and Contribution

Job vs Career?

A career is the sum total of paid and unpaid work, learning and life roles you undertake throughout your life.

If you are planning a career you need to think about the future!

Your Career

Where do you want to be in 5 years time?

Where don’t you want to be?

Career Contributions Work experience Community involvement Employment Life roles Enterprise activities Cultural activities Training Education Interests Sport Volunteer work

Purpose of Career Management

To shape and continually refine a career that combines what you value with what you do well

To engender self reliance and the integration of personal goals and plans with the needs of the organisation

The Real You

What did you want to be?

The Real You

What do you want to be when you grow up?

Or should it be: What don’t I want to be?

How did we get here?

The Real You

The Ultimate Goal

Alignment - determining what’s important to you and matching that as closely as possible to opportunities in the career marketplace

Alignment - personal & professional life and work and play needs are balanced and synchronised

The Real You

After completing school, which subjects did you continue to study or read about?

The Real You

If you were able to work three days a week, what would you do with the other four days?

The Real You

What skills and/or characteristics have you been complimented on by others?

The Real You

What do you admire in yourself?

The Real You

How do you spend your time now?

The Real You

What three things would you like most to change about yourself?

Finding Your Career Path

Managing Your Career

Earn Your Stripes Be Flexible Keep Perspective

David McClelland

Myths

Good work ensures a future with your employer

The most qualified individual gets the job

Career success means establishing a career direction and pursuing it for life

Myths

Never step back - or sideways - in your career

The best career opportunities are with large organisations

It’s best to look for a job when you have a job

Most people follow traditional career paths

The Changing World of Work

Old New

Success = Career ladder Success = values, goals and competencies aligned (career lattice)

Authority Influence

Status = Position Status = Impact

Entitlement Marketability

Loyalty to company Commitment to work and self

Salaries and benefits Contracts, fees

Job security Personal freedom/control

Identity defined by job and organisation

Identity defined by your life and circumstances and work you do

Bosses and managers Customers and clients, leaders

In which Industries do Australians Work?

17 Broad IndustriesTop 4:

15% Retail (1.5 million people) Property and Business Services (1.2M) Health and Community Services (1 M) Manufacturing (1M)

Source: Australian Government DEWR 2007

Where are the New Jobs?

Over the last five years employment has grown by 1,173,400

Four industries have dominated: Construction (248,700) Property and Business (196,900) Health and Community Services

(156,600) Retail Trade (110,000)

Which Industries have declined?

Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing (81,300) Manufacturing (22,400)

Where will the new jobs be?

Projected 2011-2012

Food, Hospitality &

Tourism6%

Accounting, Finance &

Management21%

Other Occupations

10%

Computing & IT6%

Sales Assistants & Storepersons

14%

Health, Fitness, Hair & Beauty

10%

Clerks, Receptionists,

Secretaries8%

Teaching, Childcare,

Library7%

Marketing & Sales

Representatives6%

Building & Construction

6%

Social Welfare & Security

6%

More to Consider:

Are you learning?If your job was open, would you get it?Are you being milked?Do you know what you contribute?What would you do if your job

disappeared tomorrow?Are you having fun yet?Are you worried about your job?

The Individual’s Responsibilities

Individuals need to recognise that: We are responsible for initiation and

implementations of a career plan Feedback is enhanced when it is self

initiated and includes diversity of stakeholders

Career Anchors

A Career Anchor is:

“A perceived area of competence, combined with motives and values - not easily given up”

Three Questions

What are my talents, skills and competencies?

What are my main motives, needs, drives and goals in life?

What are my values, the main criteria by which I judge what I am doing?

Types of Career Anchors Technical/Functional Competence General Managerial Competence Autonomy/Independence Security/Stability Entrepreneurial Creativity Service/Dedication to a cause Pure Challenge Lifestyle

Career Progression

1. Horizontal: Growth in Skills/Abilities

2. Vertical: Growth in Responsibility

3. Central: Growth in Power/Influence

A Career Anchor helps determine the most appropriate progression.

Career Lessons (Daniel Pink)

Lesson One: There is no plan-make smart choices Two Types:

Instrumental Fundamental

Career Lessons

Lesson Two:

Think Strengths Not Weaknesses

FIND YOUR “REMARKABLE” = Passions and Your Strengths!!!

Career Lessons

Lesson Three:

It’s not about you…..

It’s about adding value! Using your strengths and talents to help others

Career Lessons

Lesson Four:

Persistence trumps over talent

Career Lessons

Lesson Five:

Make excellent mistakes

Career Lessons

Lesson Six:

Leave an imprint

When you get older, you may have some questions…. Did I make a difference? Did I contribute? Did I matter?

Problem is…

Most People get toward the end of their lives and they don’t like the answers.

“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”

Sydney J Harris

Quote

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”

Michelangelo

“What are you doing to make your job work for you?”

Who do you want to be the Master of your destiny?

Faye BoundBound Consulting Group

Useful Linkswww.graduatecareers.com.au/content/view/full/230www.theinstitute.com.auwww.myfuture.edu.auwww.jobguide.dest.gov.auwww.skillsinfo.gov.auwww.connecttoyourfuture.dest.gov.au