1. Career Development workshop
Sue Duraikan
Personal and Professional Development

2. Objectives Explore your career aspirations and goals
Understand different ways to think about career development, depending on needs, interest and priorities
Identify and address potential barriers to career progression
Consider how to build your professional network
Look at a range of options for moving forward
Prepare a career development plan to explore in depth during 1-1 coaching

3. Networking for success
Professional bodies
Local groups
Project teams
Online
Training
Events
Alumni
Internal networks
Social

4. A Career Pathway Then Now Future
An introduction to what contributes to a successful career pathway and how the pathway and can change over time based on the contributing factors identified in the Wordel graphic

5. Building a career path
Identifying that career pathways a) can be built to fit what the individual needs and wants at different stages of their career and that b) career pathways aren’t linear but can take a variety of turns and twists

6. Where am I now and how did I get here?
Career (Life) Timeline
On your timeline:
Milestones – key achievements; significant events
Reflect :
What are my highlights/achievements I am particularly proud of?
What are the low lights?
What did I learn?
Milestones, key events, major achievements
To structure and inform thinking on your next career move or opportunity to develop your career, its important to understand how you got to where you are now and what it was that got you there.
Its sometimes hard to remember what you’ve achieved – can help you make career decisions,
Time/Years

7. Moving forward What do I actually want out of my next role?
What skills and experience do I need to gain in order to be best placed for these opportunities?
What sort of role and opportunities might be available to me in the short and longer term?
A range of Activities to help them formulate responses to these questions. They are a range of tools already available on the PPD website that could support these activities

8. What do I actually want out of my next role?
Work contribution
Lifestyle
Work environment

9. What’s stopping you?

10. Fixed V Growth Mindset
Introduce the growth mindset and its impact on how we perceive our own career path overall and the individual setbacks and challenges we face along the way. Also, how having a fixed mindset can negatively impact the smooth transition along that career paht

11. Career Progression and The Growth Mindset
Help them to understand the level of work needed to achieve successful career progression
Plus activity to help them understand whether they have a fixed or growth mindset in relation to their career and how they might start to develop a growth mindset in relation to their career

12. Assertive mindset/persuasive skills
Respect myself and other Be clear on my rights and responsibilities Beware of cognitive distortions Be clear what I want – and rationale Listen and empathise Understand their position – what’s in it for them? What will make it easy for them to agree? Know your bottom line – what will I not agree to? What happens if we can’t agree?
Help them to understand the level of work needed to achieve successful career progression
Plus activity to help them understand whether they have a fixed or growth mindset in relation to their career and how they might start to develop a growth mindset in relation to their career

13. 1. Gather evidence Copies of SRD discussion notes
Tips for moving forward
1. Gather evidence Copies of SRD discussion notes
Project and work plans
Key papers/documents you’ve written & presentations delivered
Written feedback from service users and other stakeholders
Details of conferences/training courses attended
Your own notes & reflections on recent achievements/learning log
Outside work achievements
Help them to understand the level of work needed to achieve successful career progression
Plus activity to help them understand whether they have a fixed or growth mindset in relation to their career and how they might start to develop a growth mindset in relation to their career

14. 2. Grow your role Use SRD discussions
Tips for moving forward
2. Grow your role Use SRD discussions
New work project
Join a project team
Partner with a colleague
Job shadowing
Attend training/professional events
Develop expertise in area of interest
Offer to manage/train/mentor staff
Investigate job swaps
Secondment
Volunteer
Help them to understand the level of work needed to achieve successful career progression
Plus activity to help them understand whether they have a fixed or growth mindset in relation to their career and how they might start to develop a growth mindset in relation to their career

15. Tips for moving forward
4. Use University Online career pathways tool
Due to launch October 2019
Aims to support you with professional and career development and progression in current and future roles as suitable job opportunities arise.
Will enable you to:
Self-assess your skills and attributes levels against those required for current role
Match existing skills and attributes to other roles in the University
Determine specific training and development needed
Identify development opportunities to meet your needs
Inform career conversations with manager

16. 5. Find a mentor Tips for moving forward Internal External PPD
Departmental
Find your own
Find your own

17. Tips for moving forward

18. 6. Future-proof your career
Tips for moving forward
6. Future-proof your career
New areas of expertise?
New trends?
Commercial focus
Collaborative working
Organisational efficiency
Globalisation
Managing change
Multiple roles
Technological advances
Specialisation

19. 7. Set goals Tips for moving forward Short term Next 6 months
Long term
≥5 years
Medium term
2-5 years

20. Development Opportunities
PPD Home page
News, join the secondment mailing list, find and book a course
Career development
Planning, SRD, tools to support
Professional Development
Mentoring, Secondments, Apprenticeships and more
Leadership development
Options for managers and leaders
Learn online
Online modules, On Demand
Coaching – offered as part of this course
Identifying the range of development opportunities available to them via PPD, other training providers and what they should be able to access within their department

21. Next steps
In summary, run through the tips mentioned in the slide