Career Development Toolkit for Higher Education Professionals
The Care and Feeding of Career Development Professionals
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Transcript of The Care and Feeding of Career Development Professionals
The Care & Feeding of Career Development Professionals
~ Cannexus 2012 ~
Presented by Rob Straby
Agenda
• Introductions
• What do professionals want?
• Learning from our experiences
• Self assessment of our learning
• Learning from models of professional development
Key Question
• What do professionals look for in their careers today?
What Everybody Knows…
1. Learning & development
2. Challenging work3. Work-personal
balance4. Quality relationship
with their leader5. $ only matters when
the above are not met
What Are The Risks?
• Learning is critically important
• Prevents loss of knowledge
• Increases satisfaction & cross-functional capability
Let’s Consider Your Learning
Take some time to reflect on past learning events in which you:
1.Enjoyed yourself and leaned a great deal
2.Did not enjoy yourself and learned a great deal
3.Enjoyed yourself and learned little
4.Did not enjoy yourself and learned little
Learning From Experience
Reflect & Share on the Learning
• What was the content?
• Was it enjoyable, difficult?
• Was it relevant, applicable?
• Was it voluntary or involuntary?
• Was there practice opportunity?
• Was there opportunity for feedback?
What approaches have worked best for you?
Professional Development Assessment
•Please take a few minutes to complete the informal checklist to assess your learning and development
iLern
iLern Examples
What’s next for you?
• Take a moment to plan one new professional development activity that you can start doing!
Thank you!
Rob Straby
www.Straby.com