developing yourself to empower others: professional development and cpd23
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Presentation on how to make the most of personal development opportunities gained from helping to develop others. Given at #cilips CILIP Scotland Conference, June 2013TRANSCRIPT
Bethan Ruddock, Mimas @bethanar
CILIPS 2013 #cilips2103
Developing yourself to empower others: professional development and CPD23.
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Helping others with their CPD can be CPD for you
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The New Professional’s Toolkit
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Aimed at new library & archive professionals, but relevant to anyone who wants to think about upskilling or professional development
Over 50 case studies from information professionals around the world
Chapters on project management; teaching, training & communicating; meeting users’ needs & measuring success; marketing & engaging stakeholders; using technology; funding & doing more with less; budgets; ethics and copyright; professional development; networking; and professional involvement.
What is it?
The New Professional’s Toolkit
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Knowledge of library and information sectorWhat skills/knowledge are needed?
Who can write about them? Expanded network
Organisation and project managementManaging year-long project
Collaborating virtually, with contributors from all over the world
While having a full-time job
Writing, editorial, and indexing skillsLargest single piece of work
Editing contributions – finding right balanceIndexing
Benefits?
CILIP Future Skills Project
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What is it?
CILIP Future Skills project:Review knowledge and skills baseRevise accreditation modelReview qualifications structureEngage with employers
Project board to oversee the delivery of the project, ensuring it meets key aims and that activities are achieved within time, budget, & risk parameters
CILIP Future Skills Project
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Chance to have input into future of professionBetter knowledge of CILIP’s offerings and attitudesExperience of working on a well-run PRINCE II project
Benefits?
Working with boardExperience of
working with mixture of high-level peopleTalented, inspiring
Expanding personal/professional
network
23 things for professional development: CPD23
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23 things programmes
First ‘23 things’ program ran at Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County in 2006, titled ‘learning 2.0’.
About learning through play and explorationSmall chunks of learning to fit into busy
schedulesWhy 23 things? Fitted the needs/constraints of the original programme
About online tools, using online tools – blogs, podcasts, images etc
People have been adapting it ever since – including for professional development
What is it?
23 things for professional development: CPD23
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What is it?
How does it work?
Self-paced, online format meant accessible to anyone with an internet connection
Enabled worldwide participationOfficially ‘ran’ twice
But all of the information is still up on the blog, and anyone can pick it up at any time
Cohort & networkingEncouraged to tweet and comment on other’s blog postsPlus face-to-face meetups
Know can be hard to find time for CPD – help people to plan and structure
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What is it?
Which things?
Blogging, commenting, personal brand, current awareness, reflective practice, online networks, face-to-face networks, organising yourself, CPD at different career stages, librarianship training options, mentoring, social media, filesharing and collaboration, organising references, conferences and presenting, advocacy, podcasts and vodcasts, career paths, promoting yourself, volunteering, career planning
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Benefits?
Working with such a proactive, enthusiastic group of professionals. The project involved a lot of work, but the way everyone pulled together and worked on the tasks which utilised their strengths was fantastic and made it a really enjoyable experience.
Skills developed:Collaborative workingVirtual communication (e.g. joining in meetings via Google Docs chat)Time management of self and others (e.g. ensuring guest blog posts are ready well in advance)Using Blogger
Jo Alcock
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Benefits?
Delegation: when to do it, and how to give instructions to other people so that the delegation goes smoothly for both.
Teaching/training skills: never assume anything about the starting levels of people who might get involved as participants in something like this, other than to assume there'll be a huge range!
Katie Birkwood
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Benefits?
Broadening my professional circle, boosting confidence,
pure enjoyment of working with a great team!
Niamh Tumelty
Getting the most out of developing others
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Anything you do that involves teaching, training, instructing, coaching, mentoring will have
benefits for everyone involved.
Maximise your benefits by choosing activities that give you
new/relevant skills and experience; reflecting on your
experiences; taking note of feedback (including the good!);
taking on challenges; being open to learning
Image used under CC licence from http://www.flickr.com/photos/followthethings/8707065938/
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Image used under a CC licence from http://www.flickr.com/photos/yisongyue/3390038593
Reflection doesn’t always show you what you expected to see
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New Professional’s Toolkit: http://lisnewprofs.com
CILIP Future Skills Project: http://www.cilip.org.uk/about-us/future-skills-project/pages/default.aspx
CPD 23: http://cpd23.blogspot.co.ukArticle in SCONUL focus: http://www.sconul.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/17_9.pdf
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