Climbing the Ladder, or Preparing for a Bigger Role Nancy Kress University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Climbing the Ladder,or Preparing for a Bigger Role

Nancy KressUniversity of Nevada, Las Vegas

Climbing the LadderOVERVIEW

• Clarify your career goal • Decide what responsibilities and roles to

tackle• Create a plan to manage your career

PROGRAM• Part 1 – Vision your future– Exercise: Case study to anticipate future

changes

• Part 2 – Know yourself– Exercise: Job Crafting

• Part 3 – Set your goals and create a plan– Exercise: Create a career plan

PART 1Vision your future

Vision your futureWho are you?

Vision your future

• What would my ideal work be?• What work makes me fulfilled and

excited?

Worksheet part 1

Vision your future

• Opportunities in your own organization

Vision your future• Change in manager• Change in the type of work you do• Transfer to another part of the

organization• Change in role• Job redefined or enlarged• Change in employer

Vision your future

• Exercise: Case study to anticipate future changes– Case study 1: Change in Supervisor– Case study 2: Change in Job

PART 2Knowing yourself

Knowing yourself

• Career interests, work values and skills• Assessing skills - what you have and what

to develop• Identify future roles

Knowing yourself

• Core professional interests• Work values• Strongest skills

Knowing yourself• Core professional interests– what activities do you typically perform?– what activities do you find most appealing?

• Work values• Strongest skills

Knowing yourself

• Core professional interests• Work values– financial stability– intellectual challenge– working with people you admire– career opportunities to move up– work/life balance

• Strongest skills

Knowing yourself

• Core professional interests• Work values• Strongest skills– skills you have in abundance– skills you possess but want to strengthen– entirely new skills

Knowing yourself

• Exercise: Job Crafting– visualize job tasks– map job elements in number and scope– reorganize to change quality and quantity

Exercise: Job Crafting

• Current state• Change in mindset• Future state

Managepeople

Complete projects (I initiated)

Library Strategic Planning Actions

Department goals

Research & reading

Professional development

Current State

Attend meetings

Exercise: Job Crafting

• Current state– identify daily/weekly/monthly tasks– convert to building blocks according to time

• Change in mindset• Future state

Worksheet part 2

Exercise: Job Crafting

• Current state• Change in mindset– motive– strength– passion

• Future stateWorksheet part 3

Exercise: Job Crafting

• Current state• Change in mindset• Future state– new tasks– increase/decrease amount of task time

Worksheet part 4

Managepeople

Attend meetings

Library Strategic Planning Actions

Consulting

Attend classes in

Lean

Reading new

researchFuture State

Department goals

Complete projects (I initiated)

Scholarship: research &

writing

Exercise: Job Crafting

• Current state• Change in mindset• Future state– Re-craft tasks to allocate time– create more meaning by crafting more challenge– change relationships– foster high quality connections by changing who

you interact with

Exercise: Job Crafting

• Future state actions

Worksheet part 5

PART 3Set goals and create career path

Set goals and create career path

• Determining time frame and importance• Reviewing and evaluating goals

Homework: create a career plan

Create a career plan

• Review core professional interests, values and skills

• List and describe career opportunities in your organization

• Identify and obtain new skills• Develop a plan

Create a career plan

• Review core professional interests, values and skills

• List and describe career opportunities in your organization

• Identify and obtain new skills• Develop a schedule

Create a career plan

• Review core professional interests, values and skills

• List and describe career opportunities in your organization

• Identify and obtain new skills• Develop a schedule

• Change in manager• Change in the type of work you do• Transfer to another part of the

organization• Change in role• Job redefined or enlarged• Change in employer

Create a career plan

Create a career plan

• Review core professional interests, values and skills• List and describe career opportunities in your

organization• Identify and obtain new skills

– internal organizational training – online courses – professional association resources – university continuing education

• Develop a plan

Create a career plan

• Review core professional interests, values and skills

• List and describe career opportunities in your organization

• Identify and obtain new skills• Develop a plan

Worksheet part 6

Questions?

References• Barden, D. M. "Your Next Few Leaders." The Chronicle of Higher Education

(June 2, 2009).• Berg, J. M., A. Wrzesniewski, and J. E. Dutton. "Perceiving and Responding

to Challenges in Job Crafting at Different Ranks: When Proactivity Requires Adaptivity." Journal of Organizational Behavior 31.2-3 (2010).

• Drucker, P. F. "Managing Oneself." Harvard Business Review 83.1 (2005).• Wellman, N., and G. Spreitzer. "Crafting Scholarly Life: Strategies for

Creating Meaning in Academic Careers." Journal of Organizational Behavior (2010).

• Wrzesniewski, A., and J. E. Dutton. "Crafting a Job: Revisioning Employees as Active Crafters of their Work." Academy of Management Review 26.2 (2001).

• Wrzesniewski, A., J.M. Berg, and J. E. Dutton. "Turn the Job You have into the Job You Want." Harvard Business Review 88.6 (2010).

Contact information

Nancy KressHead, Access & Delivery ServicesUniversity of Nevada Las Vegas LibrariesLas Vegas, [email protected]