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Making Your Job Work for You

Making Your Job Work for You. ATEM CENTRAL REGION 2008 ANNUAL CONFERENCE. Faye Bound Bound Consulting Group May 2008 www.boundconsulting.com.au. Are you are the Master of Your Own Destiny?. What are the Key Messages to South Australian employers?. Management Culture-

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Making Your Job Work for You

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  1. Making Your Job Work for You ATEM CENTRAL REGION 2008 ANNUAL CONFERENCE Faye Bound Bound Consulting Group May 2008 www.boundconsulting.com.au

  2. Are you are the Master of Your Own Destiny?

  3. What are the Key Messages to South Australian employers? Management Culture- • Employees’ needs essential to success • Attempting to shift the blame unacceptable • Adequate Investment in retaining • Organisation’s Image is important Source 207 Square Holes/SA Great/AIM

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

  5. Your Environment “Why we do the things we do” World ViewSelf EsteemSelf Concept Intelligence Personality Upbringing & History

  6. Actual Performance Choices Performance = Result Choices Behaviours = Responses Choices Skills Bank = Applications Choices Attitude = Mindset Beliefs & Values = Primary Drivers

  7. Definition of Values “ideals which give significance to our lives expressed through our priorities…” B. Hall

  8. 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

  9. Growth and Development To Learn (HEART) To Love To Live (MIND) (BODY) To Leave a Legacy Survival Relationships (SPIRIT) Meaning and Contribution

  10. 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!

  11. Your Career • Where do you want to be in 5 years time? • Where don’t you want to be?

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

  13. 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

  14. The Real You • What did you want to be?

  15. The Real You • What do you want to be when you grow up? • Or should it be: What don’t I want to be?

  16. How did we get here? The Real You

  17. 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

  18. The Real You • After completing school, which subjects did you continue to study or read about?

  19. The Real You • If you were able to work three days a week, what would you do with the other four days?

  20. The Real You • What skills and/or characteristics have you been complimented on by others?

  21. The Real You • What do you admire in yourself?

  22. The Real You • How do you spend your time now?

  23. The Real You • What three things would you like most to change about yourself?

  24. Finding Your Career Path

  25. Managing Your Career • Earn Your Stripes • Be Flexible • Keep Perspective David McClelland

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. The Changing World of Work

  29. In which Industries do Australians Work? 17 Broad Industries Top 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

  30. 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)

  31. Which Industries have declined? • Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing (81,300) • Manufacturing (22,400)

  32. Where will the new jobs be? Projected 2011-2012

  33. 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?

  34. 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

  35. Career Anchors A Career Anchor is: “A perceived area of competence, combined with motives and values - not easily given up”

  36. 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?

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

  38. Career Progression • Horizontal: Growth in Skills/Abilities • Vertical: Growth in Responsibility • Central: Growth in Power/Influence A Career Anchor helps determine the most appropriate progression.

  39. Career Lessons (Daniel Pink) Lesson One: • There is no plan-make smart choices • Two Types: • Instrumental • Fundamental

  40. Career Lessons Lesson Two: Think Strengths Not Weaknesses FIND YOUR “REMARKABLE” = Passions and Your Strengths!!!

  41. Career Lessons Lesson Three: It’s not about you….. It’s about adding value! Using your strengths and talents to help others

  42. Career Lessons Lesson Four: Persistence trumps over talent

  43. Career Lessons Lesson Five: Make excellent mistakes

  44. 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?

  45. 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

  46. 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

  47. “What are you doing to make your job work for you?” Who do you want to be the Master of your destiny? Faye Bound Bound Consulting Group

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

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