Climbing the Ladder, or Preparing for a Bigger Role

1. Climbing the Ladder,or Preparing for a Bigger Role Nancy Kress University of Nevada, Las Vegas

2. Climbing the LadderOVERVIEW • Clarify your career goal • Decide what responsibilities and roles to tackle • Create a plan to manage your career

3. 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

4. PART 1Vision your future

5. Vision your futureWho are you?

6. Vision your future • What would my ideal work be? • What work makes me fulfilled and excited? Worksheet part 1

7. Vision your future • Opportunities in your own organization

8. 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

9. Vision your future • Exercise: Case study to anticipate future changes • Case study 1: Change in Supervisor • Case study 2: Change in Job

10. PART 2Knowing yourself

11. Knowing yourself • Career interests, work values and skills • Assessing skills - what you have and what to develop • Identify future roles

12. Knowing yourself • Core professional interests • Work values • Strongest skills

13. Knowing yourself • Core professional interests • what activities do you typically perform? • what activities do you find most appealing? • Work values • Strongest skills

14. 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

15. Knowing yourself • Core professional interests • Work values • Strongest skills • skills you have in abundance • skills you possess but want to strengthen • entirely new skills

16. Knowing yourself • Exercise: Job Crafting • visualize job tasks • map job elements in number and scope • reorganize to change quality and quantity

17. Exercise: Job Crafting • Current state • Change in mindset • Future state

18. Manage people Complete projects (I initiated) Library Strategic Planning Actions Attend meetings Department goals Professional development Research & reading CurrentState

19. 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

20. Exercise: Job Crafting • Current state • Change in mindset • motive • strength • passion • Future state Worksheet part 3

21. Exercise: Job Crafting • Current state • Change in mindset • Future state • new tasks • increase/decrease amount of task time Worksheet part 4

22. Manage people Department goals Complete projects (I initiated) Scholarship: research & writing Attend meetings Library Strategic Planning Actions Consulting Attend classes in Lean Reading new research Future State

23. 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

24. Exercise: Job Crafting • Future state actions Worksheet part 5

25. PART 3Set goals and create career path

26. Set goals and create career path • Determining time frame and importance • Reviewing and evaluating goals Homework: create a career plan

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. Create a career plan • 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

31. 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

32. 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

33. Questions?

34. 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 Review83.1 (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).

35. Contact information Nancy Kress Head, Access & Delivery Services University of Nevada Las Vegas Libraries Las Vegas, NV nancy.kress@unlv.edu 702-895-2117