The Care & Feeding of Career Development Professionals

~ Cannexus 2012 ~

Presented by Rob Straby

Agenda

• Introductions

• What do professionals want?

• Learning from our experiences

• Self assessment of our learning

• Learning from models of professional development

Key Question

• What do professionals look for in their careers today?

What Everybody Knows…

1. Learning & development

2. Challenging work3. Work-personal

balance4. Quality relationship

with their leader5. $ only matters when

the above are not met

What Are The Risks?

• Learning is critically important

• Prevents loss of knowledge

• Increases satisfaction & cross-functional capability

Let’s Consider Your Learning

Take some time to reflect on past learning events in which you:

1.Enjoyed yourself and leaned a great deal

2.Did not enjoy yourself and learned a great deal

3.Enjoyed yourself and learned little

4.Did not enjoy yourself and learned little

Learning From Experience

Reflect & Share on the Learning

• What was the content?

• Was it enjoyable, difficult?

• Was it relevant, applicable?

• Was it voluntary or involuntary?

• Was there practice opportunity?

• Was there opportunity for feedback?

What approaches have worked best for you?

Professional Development Assessment

•Please take a few minutes to complete the informal checklist to assess your learning and development

iLern

iLern Examples

What’s next for you?

• Take a moment to plan one new professional development activity that you can start doing!

Thank you!

Rob Straby

www.Straby.com