Making Your Job Work for You
Faye BoundBound Consulting GroupMay 2008www.boundconsulting.com.au
ATEM CENTRAL REGION2008 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
What are the Key Messages to South Australian employers?
Management Culture-1) Employees’ needs essential to
success2) Attempting to shift the blame
unacceptable 3) Adequate Investment in retaining4) Organisation’s Image is important
Source 207 Square Holes/SA Great/AIM
Culture
Culture is what is created from the messages that are received about how people are expected to behave in your organisation.
Corporate Vision
“Why we do the things we do”
World ViewSelf EsteemSelf Concept
PersonalityIntelligence
Upbringing &
History
Actual Performance
Choices
Choices
Choices
Choices
Beliefs & Values=
Primary Drivers
Attitude =
Mindset
Skills Bank =
Applications
Behaviours =
Responses
Performance =
Result
Definition of Values
“ideals which give significance to our lives expressed through our priorities…”
B. Hall
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
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!
Career Contributions Work experience Community involvement Employment Life roles Enterprise activities Cultural activities Training Education Interests Sport Volunteer work
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
The Ultimate Goal
Alignment - determining what’s 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
The Real You
If you were able to work three days a week, what would you do with the other four days?
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
Myths
Never step back - or sideways - in your career
The best career opportunities are with large organisations
It’s best to look for a job when you have a job
Most people follow traditional career paths
The Changing World of Work
Old New
Success = Career ladder Success = values, goals and competencies aligned (career lattice)
Authority Influence
Status = Position Status = Impact
Entitlement Marketability
Loyalty to company Commitment to work and self
Salaries and benefits Contracts, fees
Job security Personal freedom/control
Identity defined by job and organisation
Identity defined by your life and circumstances and work you do
Bosses and managers Customers and clients, leaders
In which Industries do Australians Work?
17 Broad IndustriesTop 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
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)
Where will the new jobs be?
Projected 2011-2012
Food, Hospitality &
Tourism6%
Accounting, Finance &
Management21%
Other Occupations
10%
Computing & IT6%
Sales Assistants & Storepersons
14%
Health, Fitness, Hair & Beauty
10%
Clerks, Receptionists,
Secretaries8%
Teaching, Childcare,
Library7%
Marketing & Sales
Representatives6%
Building & Construction
6%
Social Welfare & Security
6%
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?
The Individual’s 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
Career Anchors
A Career Anchor is:
“A perceived area of competence, combined with motives and values - not easily given up”
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?
Types of Career Anchors Technical/Functional Competence General Managerial Competence Autonomy/Independence Security/Stability Entrepreneurial Creativity Service/Dedication to a cause Pure Challenge Lifestyle
Career Progression
1. Horizontal: Growth in Skills/Abilities
2. Vertical: Growth in Responsibility
3. Central: Growth in Power/Influence
A Career Anchor helps determine the most appropriate progression.
Career Lessons (Daniel Pink)
Lesson One: There is no plan-make smart choices Two Types:
Instrumental Fundamental
Career Lessons
Lesson Two:
Think Strengths Not Weaknesses
FIND YOUR “REMARKABLE” = Passions and Your Strengths!!!
Career Lessons
Lesson Three:
It’s not about you…..
It’s about adding value! Using your strengths and talents to help others
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?
Problem is…
Most People get toward the end of their lives and they don’t 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
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
“What are you doing to make your job work for you?”
Who do you want to be the Master of your destiny?
Faye BoundBound Consulting Group