Career Development in the Organization

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Welcome!
CIASTD Ongoing Learning Track (OLG) Meeting 1
01-Feb-2008

• Career Development in the Organization

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Agenda/Topics To Be Covered

• Why are we here again?
• Whos who?
• Whats it mean to you?
• What do the experts say?
• Whats going on in your world?
• Where do we go from here?

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Why Are We Here Again?

• Have you ever gone to a conference and left
  wanting more?
• Where does deep learning occur?
• When do you have time to ask application
  questions?
• Where can you explore possibilities?
• But, before we jump into the details

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Whos Who

• Name
• Organization
• Current role and responsibilities
• Prior experiences with career development

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Career Development in the Organization

• Creating the environment for employees to develop
  all types of skills
• Helping decision makers understand usefulness of
  employee development
• Facilitating best practices for career
  development courses

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Whats It Mean to You?

• In the chat window, please type a message to all
  participants what career development means to
  you.
• When asked, please use the chat window to let us
  know what are the questions that youd like us to
  discuss.

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What Do the Experts Say?

• Assuring an alignment of individual career
  planning and organizational career management
  processes to achieve an optimal match of
  individual and organizational needs. (HRD wheel
  Craig 1996)
• Five phases of development (D.E. Super)
• Growth stage
• Exploratory stage
• Establishment stage
• Maintenance stage
• Decline stage

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Career Advice Example from Top CIOs

• Get uncomfortable
• Carpe diem
• Fall on your sword
• Dont play it safe
• Go with your gut
• What interests your boss should fascinate you
• Get dirty
• Love it or leave it
• Source It Worked For Me CIO magazine

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Whats Going On in Your World?

• How do you define career development at your
  organization today?
• Is career development part of your performance
  management process?
• How to balance short term and long term?
• What model(s) do you use to communicate what
  career development is (or should be)?

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Where Do We Go From Here?

• Which topic should we prioritize for our next
  webconference?
• Potential schedule
• Friday, 15-Feb gt 29-Feb (4 weeks)
• Friday, 14-Mar (2 weeks)
• Friday, 18-Apr (4 weeks)