The document discusses qualifications needed for a job in organizational development or instructional design. It outlines an ideal position requiring consulting with organizations to assess learning needs, designing learning solutions, and facilitating training programs. The document compares the individual's skills to those needed, including technical skills, business acumen, problem solving, and self-development. It provides resources like mentors and committees to help develop needed skills before graduation to smoothly transition into the ideal role.

1. ISSUE
• Do I have the qualifications to obtain a job in the Organization
Development or Instructional Design field?
• What specific job am I interested in?
• What qualifications do I need?
• What qualifications do I have?
• Can I develop a plan to have the skills that are needed before
graduation?

2. IDEAL POSITION IN OD FIELD
Position Detail Job Title: Sr. Learning & Development Practitioner
Responsibilities:
 • Connect with members from throughout the Johnsonville organization and partner with them
to solve business challenges using OD/OL tools.
 • Consult with internal customers to assess organizational learning needs. If a learning solution
is required, you get to collaboratively design that solution using the Johnsonville learning design
model.
 • Consult, design, and facilitate Accelerated Collaboration & Execution (ACE) events. ACE uses
Human-Centered Design principles in large-group, collaborative environments to solve
business challenges.
 • Facilitate classroom, blended, and e-learning (synchronous and asynchronous) programs as
part of a 70-20-10 philosophy of member development.

3. WHAT I HAVE VS WHAT I NEED
Technical
Skills
Action
Oriented
Drive for Business
Results Acumen
Problem Self-
Solving Development

4. RESOURCES
• Director
• Professors
• Career Advisor/Mentor
• Boards/Committees
• Volunteer Opportunities
• Self Assessment Tools (360 Feedback, Clifton Finder &
updated Meyers Briggs Assessment)

5. WHAT HAVE I WORKED ON THUS FAR?
• Higher Education
• Networked for instructing opportunities:
• Alverno Inferno Free Radio (AIFR) Co-Instructor
• Volunteered to facilitate diversity training at work
• Joined Committees
• Wheaton Franciscan – Elmbrook Memorial & St.
Joseph Foundation Board of Directors
• Exploring other possible associations

6. RESULTS
When working on these competencies with resources given, the
results should be a smooth transition.

7. “What is necessary to change a person is to
change his awareness of himself”
~ Abraham Maslow

8. Questions