Wessex Event 17/07/2015 - On becoming a 'Bricoleur'
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The document discusses developing professionals for the 21st century through bricolage, or making best use of available methodologies. It focuses on sharing ideas and experiences to support early career practitioners. This includes discussing firefly moments, world of practice themes, and concepts from a project management body of knowledge. It also examines ways of knowing as artisan, bricoleur, and mindful practitioner as well as strategies for career planning and practice development. The goal is to spark dialogue to support networks of emerging professionals.
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Wessex Event 17/07/2015 - On becoming a 'Bricoleur'
- 1. Title: Bricolage or Making Best Use of Available Methodologies Topic: Developing professionals for the 21st century Dr Ian Cammack i.j.cammack@soton.ac.uk
- 2. Objectives: • To disseminate doctoral research project on ‘Becoming a Project Manager’. • To share ideas about practice development for early career practitioners. • To offer an invitation for dialogue about developments on both sides of the “border”.
- 3. A Personal Journey Complicated Systems Complex Systems
- 4. A job well done? 44% of humanities & social science students felt their course represented good value. BBC 22nd June 2015
- 6. • A man may well learn to talk about taking action simply by talking about taking action (as in classes at a business school) but to learn to take action (as something distinct from learning to talk about taking action) then he needs to take action (rather than to talk about taking action) and to see the effect, not of talking about taking action (at which he may appear competent) but of taking the action itself (at which he may fall somewhat short of competent). (Revans 1971 pp. 54-5 original emphasis).
- 7. Becoming a Project Manager
- 9. The world of practice • What were your fire-fly moments as you entered the profession? – Critical moments that defined your practice +ve / -ve – Key conversations +ve / -ve – Reflections & sense making +ve / -ve • Capture & summarise (patterns / common themes etc. ) these to share
- 10. APM Bok v.6
- 11. Stage 1: Early career practitioners word cloud Source: 100 dissertations (10,000 words each) from MSc students Discussion of the similarities / differences with the world(s) of the audience
- 12. APM BoK v.5
- 13. Concepts Procedures Organising Analysis Sense- Making Commun- ication Experience General- isation Decision Making Problem Solving Commun- icating Co- operation Leader- ship Negotia- tion Influenc -ing Initiative Internalis- ation Follower- ship Strategic Copes with Ambiguity Relational Collabor- ative Goal Directed Integrity Emotionally Intelligent Reflexive Aware of context Systemic Eloquence
- 14. Factual Knowledge • Facts • Structures • Procedures • Concepts • Principles Experiential Knowledge • Experience • Internalisation • Generalisation • Abstraction Mental Skills • Organisation • Analysis • Evaluation • Synthesis Information Skills • Acquisition • Recording • Remembering • Communication Action Skills • Communicating Decision Making • Problem Solving • Takes Initiative Social Skills • Co-operation • Leadership • Influencing • Negotiation Mental Characteristics • Strategic • Agility • Flux • Creative Attitudes • Pluralistic • Relational • Dialogical • Collaborative Personality • Openness • Integrity • Goal Directed Mindfulness • Contextual Awareness • Emotional Intelligence • Reflexivity Cognitive Affective KnowledgeSkills Personal Qualities Adapted from Carter, 1985 p. 146, Cammack 2013 & Zenger et al 2011
- 15. Ways of Knowing: Artisan
- 16. Knowing • “...and the final product ultimately depends on the requirements of the stakeholder” (student cohort 5) • “Viewpoints are heterogeneous and come from all stakeholders” (student cohort 6) • “... the most important practice is stakeholder communication in general and [specifically] client engagement...” (student cohort 7)
- 17. Bricoleur Levi-Strauss: A"bricoleur" performs tasks with materials and tools that are at hand, from "odds and ends." http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/ 2013-07/29/heath-robinson-deserves-a-museum
- 18. Doing • “...at the same time it has posed a question [about] how should I manage my stakeholder in order to influence their level of expectation?” (student cohort 5) • “The biggest issue here is that I did not involve the key stakeholder enough in the beginning of the project.” (student cohort 7) • “As the project went on, we noticed that communication with the stakeholders was not as easy as we thought.”
- 20. Being • “I realised that if I had adopted good stakeholder management process, there would have been more collaboration and less conflict” (student cohort 5) • “As a professional project manager I feel it is vital to manage other stakeholders’ emotions and opinions without letting them affect my emotions, opinions and relationships with other stakeholders.” (student cohort 6)
- 21. Education needs to be more than cognition
- 22. Career Planning What do you do to support the career development of the early career practitioner? • Knowing • Doing • Being How effective (i.e. leading to long term success) are these strategies?
- 23. Practice Development • Performance Reviews • Action Research • Action Learning & Learning Sets • Zone of Proximal Development / Reflection • Mentoring • Coaching
- 24. Ackoff’s f-laws • “Managers who don’t know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure” http://www.f-laws.com/pdf/A_Little_Book_of_F-LawsE.pdf
- 25. Next Steps • Invitations – for dialogue with your organisations – practice development work initiatives – support your networks of early career practitioners Dr Ian Cammack i.j.cammack@soton.ac.uk
- 26. • Ackoff, R. (2006) A Little Book of f-laws: 13 Common Sins of Management http://www.f-laws.com/pdf/A_Little_Book_of_F-LawsE.pdf • Carter, R. (1985) A Taxonomy of Learning Objectives for Professional Education. Studies in Higher Education Volume 10, Issue 2, 1985 • Zenger, JH, Folkman, J & Edinger SK (2011) Making Yourself Indispensable. Harvard Business Review https://hbr.org/2011/10/making-yourself-indispensable/ar/1