8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI

1. 8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI By Tai Goodwin

2. Why We’re Here? • Who’s Minding the Shop? • PD vs. DP • How to Increase Your Professional ROI • What’s Next? • Wrap Up 8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI

3. Smile Sheets Top Concerns… Speed to Market Happy Stakeholders Do we have the right tools? Needs Analysis How much does it cost? Assessments & Tracking Quality Checks Vendors Project Plans Design Documents 8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI

4. Who’s Minding the Shop? What does traditional professional development look like for instructional designers and e-learning developers? • What does typical performance management for instructional designers and e-learning developers look like? 8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI

5. Development and Performance Goals Poll… • How many people have development goals? • How many people have performance goals? • How many people remember what they are and are clear on how they will help grow their career? (-Not just help them produce more) 8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI

6. PD vs. DP Professional Development • Tools • Methods • Tactics • Systems • Typically focused on producing a specific outcome Developed Professionals Have an understanding of the relationships, information, influences, and resources needed to impact the business and grow their careers. 8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI

7. Expertise Building a Solid Career Tools Developed professionals have the entire package… Experience/Education Professional Growth Expertise Tools Experience Professional Growth 8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI

8. Professional ROI Investing in your professional development yields betterproduction, higher quality deliverables, possible longevity in your current position, possible opportunity to advance to a higher level within the learning organization. • Becoming a developed professional is about positioning yourself as a leader, asset, a go-to person, and a valued member in and out of your immediate team. 8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI

9. Professional ROI What are you seeing in your career? 8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI

10. Professional ROI Promotion Viewed as a thought leader Assigned leadership roles Invited to participate in industry events Invited to contribute to special projects Qualified for opportunities outside the learning office 8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI

11. Increasing Your ROI • Build Your Emotional IQ The concept of Emotional Intelligence was popularized by Daniel Goleman. Goleman believes that Intelligent Quotient (IQ) accounts for 20% success in a person’s life, whereas most of the remaining 80% factors are based on Emotional Intelligence (EI). FMI: Institute for Health and Human Potential 8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI

12. Increasing Your ROI • Look for Ways to Be Innovative “Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat” - Anonymous FMI: Fast Company Slide Show – Innovation Step by Step 8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI

13. Increasing Your ROI • Become an Excellent Communicator Develop a reputation as an outstanding communicator…according to other people. FMI: Talk Your Way to the Top by Kevin Hogan and Richard Brodie 8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI

14. Increasing Your ROI • Be an Intrinsic Learner One of the things that may get in the way of people being lifelong learners is that they’re not in touch with their passion. If you’re passionate about what it is you do, then you’re going to be looking for everything you can to get better at it. – Jack Canfield FMI: TED, iTunes University, Open Courseware Consortium 8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI

15. Increasing Your ROI • Expand Your External & Internal Network ~ It isn't just what you know, and it isn't just who you know. It's actually who you know, who knows you, and what you do for a living. -Bob Burg FMI: Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time by Ken Ferrazzi 8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI

16. Increasing Your ROI • Stay Aware of Trends + FMI: Twitter, Google Reader, LinkedIn, ASTD SIGs, Industry forums, your network 8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI

17. Increasing Your ROI • Learn the Business Side of Learning FMI: the Masie Learning Resources Barometer: http://www.masie.com/barometer

18. Increasing Your ROI • Break Through Silos to Get the Big Picture How do you stay connected to what’s happening in, with, and to your organization? FMI: Your company’s PR department, Internal Communications and Organizational Chart 8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI

19. What’s Next? • Develop a personal professional development plan: • Write a personal vision statement of what you want your career to look like • Take an honest evaluation of where you are now • List what people, experiences, and information you need to close the gap • Create a plan for how you will make it happen • Get support from a mentor or coach to help you stay on track 8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI

20. Wrap Up Questions and Comments? 8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI

21. Thank You! Contact: taiwriter@gmail.com