Making Your Job Work for You

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Making Your Job Work for You
ATEM CENTRAL REGION 2008 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

• Faye Bound
• Bound Consulting Group
• May 2008
• www.boundconsulting.com.au

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• Are you are the Master of Your Own Destiny?

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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
• Organisations Image is important
• Source 207 Square Holes/SA Great/AIM

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Culture

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

Corporate Vision
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Why we do the things we do
World ViewSelf EsteemSelf Concept
Personality
Intelligence
Upbringing History
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Actual Performance
Choices
Performance Result
Choices
Behaviours Responses
Choices
Skills Bank Applications
Choices
Attitude Mindset
Beliefs Values Primary Drivers
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Definition of Values

• ideals which give significance to our lives
  expressed through our priorities
• B. Hall

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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

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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!

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Your Career

• Where do you want to be in 5 years time?
• Where dont you want to be?

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Career Contributions

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

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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

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The Real You

• What did you want to be?

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The Real You

• What do you want to be when you grow up?
• Or should it be What dont I want to be?

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How did we get here?

• The Real You

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The Ultimate Goal

• Alignment - determining whats 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

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The Real You

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

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The Real You

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

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The Real You

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

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The Real You

• What do you admire in yourself?

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The Real You

• How do you spend your time now?

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The Real You

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

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Finding Your Career Path
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Managing Your Career

• Earn Your Stripes
• Be Flexible
• Keep Perspective

David McClelland
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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

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Myths

• Never step back - or sideways - in your career
• The best career opportunities are with large
  organisations
• Its best to look for a job when you have a job
• Most people follow traditional career paths

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The Changing World of Work
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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

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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)

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Which Industries have declined?

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

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Where will the new jobs be?

• Projected 2011-2012

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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?

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The Individuals 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

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Career Anchors

• A Career Anchor is
• A perceived area of competence, combined with
  motives and values - not easily given up

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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?

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Types of Career Anchors

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

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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.

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Career Lessons (Daniel Pink)

• Lesson One
• There is no plan-make smart choices
• Two Types
• Instrumental
• Fundamental

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Career Lessons

• Lesson Two
• Think Strengths Not Weaknesses
• FIND YOUR REMARKABLE Passions and Your
  Strengths!!!

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Career Lessons

• Lesson Three
• Its not about you..
• Its about adding value! Using your strengths and
  talents to help others

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Career Lessons

• Lesson Four
• Persistence trumps over talent

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Career Lessons

• Lesson Five
• Make excellent mistakes

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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?

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Problem is

• Most People get toward the end of their lives and
  they dont 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

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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

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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

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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