8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI

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8 Ways to Increase Your Professional ROI

• By Tai Goodwin

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Why Were Here?

• Whos Minding the Shop?
• PD vs. DP
• How to Increase Your Professional ROI
• Whats Next?
• Wrap Up

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• Top Concerns

Smile Sheets
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
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Whos 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?

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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)

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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.
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Building a Solid Career
Expertise
Tools
Developed professionals have the entire package
Experience/Education
Professional Growth
Expertise
Tools
Experience
Professional Growth
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Professional ROI

• Investing in your professional development yields
  better production, 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.

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Professional ROI

• What

are you seeing in your career?
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Professional ROI
Assigned leadership roles
Viewed as a thought leader
Invited to participate in industry events
Invited to contribute to special projects

• Promotion

Qualified for opportunities outside the learning
office
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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 persons life, whereas most of the
remaining 80 factors are based on Emotional
Intelligence (EI).
FMI Institute for Health and Human Potential
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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
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Increasing Your ROI

• Become an Excellent Communicator

Develop a reputation as an outstanding
communicatoraccording to other people.
FMI Talk Your Way to the Top by Kevin Hogan and
Richard Brodie
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Increasing Your ROI

• Be an Intrinsic Learner

One of the things that may get in the way of
people being lifelong learners is that theyre
not in touch with their passion. If youre
passionate about what it is you do, then youre
going to be looking for everything you can to get
better at it. Jack Canfield
FMI TED, iTunes University, Open Courseware
Consortium
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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
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Increasing Your ROI

• Stay Aware of Trends

FMI Twitter, Google Reader, LinkedIn, ASTD SIGs,
Industry forums, your network
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Increasing Your ROI

• Learn the Business Side of Learning

FMI the Masie Learning Resources Barometer
http//www.masie.com/barometer
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Increasing Your ROI

• Break Through Silos to Get the Big Picture

How do you stay connected to whats happening in,
with, and to your organization?
FMI Your companys PR department, Internal
Communications and Organizational Chart
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Whats 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

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Wrap Up

• Questions and Comments?

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Thank You!
Contact taiwriter_at_gmail.com