This document provides guidance on taking control of one's career through active management and planning. It discusses that career management involves assessing yourself, exploring options, developing skills, marketing yourself, and regularly performing and adjusting plans. The key aspects of an effective career plan are preparing through self-reflection, researching opportunities, gaining new experiences and skills, and networking to promote oneself. Active career management is an ongoing process that requires setting goals and adapting plans over time based on lessons learned.

1. Taking the Wheel of your Career
(or how to pimp my career)
Denise Carter, Director, Leadership by Design

2. Where do you
see yourself in 5
years?

3. “I am a great believer in
luck, and I find that the
harder I work, the more I
have of it.” - Thomas
Jefferson

4. It’s a VUCA world
To plan or not to plan that is the
question?
Every journey of a thousand miles
Overview

5.  as a person's "course or progress
through life (or a distinct portion of
life)"
Career is defined by the Oxford
English Dictionary

6. Explore
and
Establish
Growth
Maintain
and
Adjust
Lower
Aspirations
Decline
A Traditional View of Careers

7. •Objectives
•Actions
Planning
•Choice
•Influence
Active
Management
Career Management is

8. It’s a VUCA world
Volatile
Complex
Uncertain
Ambiguous

9. To plan or not to
plan that is the
question?

10. •Real desire
Direction
•Discover
•Create
Strategy
To plan or not to plan that is the
question?

11. Assessing
Self
Exploring
options
Developing
Skills
Marketing
Self
Performing
Career Direction
MY
PLAN

12. Who is driving here?

13. How is your Mind-set driving you?
 Optimistic rather than pessimistic
 Solutions rather than problem based
 Agile rather than fixed
 Inquisitive rather than accepting
 Courageous rather than timid
 Self aware rather than self-denial
 Comfortable with ambiguity

14. Assessing Self
Your particular talent
What you choose to do
You are admired for

15.  Analytical Charismatic Driven
 Focused Insightful Outgoing
 Prepared Results orientated
 Trustworthy Calm Energetic
 Diplomatic Optimistic Sincere
 Thorough Collaborative Competent
 Friendly Flexible Sensitive
How do you want to be known?

16. ‘I want to be known for being………………., in order to
……………….’

17. Enrichment opportunities such special projects or
assignments
Lateral career moves
Vertical career moves
Exploration of related job titles or departments in
preparation for a possible internal move
Realignment of your career with your personal goals
which might mean a downward move reduced hours
or other changes
Relocation to another business unit or city.
Exploring Options

18.  For the most successful
Executives
 About 40% moves tend to be
sideways
Up down or sideways?

19.  6 Sources of growth:
1. A job change to a more challenging role
2.A developmental task while in a current role
3.Role models, coaches and mentors
4.Feedback
5.Courses and Reading
6.Personal learning and reflection
Developing Skills

20. ACTION LEARNING

21.  Use a SWOT: ▫ Threats
 What do your stakeholders think of you …really
 What is your personal brand?
 Do you have weaknesses that need to be
addressed before you can move forward?
 What problems could your weaknesses cause if
unchecked?
Marketing Self

22. 1.
Preparation – conduct your due diligence;
define and identify your brand
2.
Packaging – create your portfolio; create
and build your brand
3.
Presentation – deliver your message;
articulate and enhance your brand
The 3 P’s Marketing Technique to
create your personal brand

23.  How would other people describe me?
 I have a reputation for:
 What have been my greatest
accomplishments in my work?
 What have been the results of my past
four performance reviews?
Performing

24. Dynamic Plan : How to accelerate
progress
Periodically ask yourself
 What training or skills development do I
need to achieve my goals?
 What relationships or network do I need
to build to achieve my goals?
 What are potential obstacles or
challenges to my goals and how will I
handle them?
 What new habits will I need to develop?
 What industry and professional
information will I need going forward?

25. So, the process looks like this:
 Determine your desire
 Take a step toward it
 Incorporate what you learn from taking
that step
 Take another step
 Learn from that one
 Repeat until you have a job, your own
business, or have achieved your goal.
Taking the Wheel of your Career

26.  The basic scheme managing your own career
development is pretty simple;
 Know yourself better than anyone else
 Know what is required now and in the
future
 Learn how to get there and how to add the
necessary skills and knowledge
 Do it now, don’t wait
Taking the Wheel of your Career

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