Lara Roche, founder, The Talent Sphere Visit the CharityComms website to view slides from past events, see what events we have coming up and to check out what else we do: www.charitycomms.org.uk

1. MePlc – Changing Your Mindset For
The Modern World of Work
Lara Roche – The Talent Sphere

2. Hello – Lara Roche
• The Talent Sphere – people strategy and learning
consultancy, biggest client base is not for profits
• Charity clients include: United Response, Certitude, Turn2us,
The Poppy Factory, OneYMCA, Aspire, British Lung
Foundation
• FCIPD, Board level Head of People 10 years
• Psychology background
• Speaking events: Third Sector Strategic People Conference,
CharityComms Events, VODG Annual Conference

3. The Career Shift
• Competencies
• Two careers
• Four
employers –
one is me
• Knowledge
• One career
• Two
employers
• Value add
• Unknown
career
• Employee?

4. The Work Shift
• Cerebral
• Human value-add
• Manual
• Hand-processing

5. The Talent Shift

6. The Organisation Structure Shift
Core Core
Fluid Fluid

7. The Rise of Flexibility
• Only 6% work 9-5
• Half work flexibly
• 73% have some flexibility
(YourGov, 2018)
“Flexible working is on the rise, giving employees flexibility on
where and when they work…organisations are recognising the
commercial benefits of a more flexible way of working”
(CIPD, 2019)

8. The Rise of The Gig Economy
• 4.8 million self-employed workers
• Age 16-24 self-employed doubled
since 2001
• Age 65+ self-employed tripled since
the recession
(ONS, 2016)
“Organisations of the future will not default to having employees, but
rather on-demand bring in the right competence for a specific
project…to adopt a more fluid organisation, which can on and off-
board Talent, combining employees and contractors ”
(Startup Grind, 2017)

9. The Opportunity
Varied experiences
The opportunity to create the career you want exists now more
than ever before
Flex to life
Several careers
Thinking work
Increased autonomy

10. The Challenge
Your only career-long employer is you. You need to create MePlc
– “product you”, that organisations will want to buy
• Define your product
• PR your contribution
• Build your career strategy

11. Define Your Product
• Knowledge
• Skills
• Behaviours

12. PR Your Contribution
WHAT
• Headlines - What are
you famous for?
• USPs - What are you
the go-to person for?
HOW
• Creating your network
• Spreading the message
• Meaningfully

13. Build Your Career Strategy

14. Don’t Miss Your ‘Metro Moment’

15. Your Career Strategy
• Grow your product…constantly
• Build your network…constantly
• Face the future…constantly

16. Linkedin: Lara Roche
lara@thetalentsphere.co.uk
07852962099

17. Getting ahead in your
comms career
20 June 2019
London
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18. Visit the CharityComms website to view
slides from past events, see what events
we have coming up and to check out
what else we do:
www.charitycomms.org.uk