Planning your parachute jump:

preparing yourself and staff for [yet more] change

Biddy Fisher

Past President of CILIP

@bikerbid

Reminder of what we all know!

Confirmation of what we like to think

Affirmation of the values & beliefs about

Our organisation

Our colleagues

Ourselves

The main foci of our career development activities

Confidence & competence

• Ourselves as practitioners

• Staff - for whom we are responsible

• Students/learners –whose needs we must be able to meet

Main factors influencing our career development

• Knowledge – education, academic & professional

• Workplace – opportunity, ongoing developments,

• Ourselves – motivation, creativity, forethought, analysis, evaluation, experience

= solutions, progress, fulfilment

Experience tells you what to do: Confidence allows you to do it

Professional links

• Professional bodies, statutory, regulatory

• Networks, local/regional/national/international

• Informal or formal

• Within organisation and beyond

Public confidence

• Knowing what standards to expect

• Understanding there is a responsibility to be a competent practitioner

• Realisation of expectations of expertise, of standards of behaviour and practice

• Confidence in accountability of processes, of systems, of governance and audit.

Knowledge

• All your learning, – facts and applications

• Intellectual capability – to understand and process information– To analyse and evaluate in order to decide

• Experience– When to take a risk– When to take a measured approach

Organisation (employer)

• Training and development – To make a better fit– To understand the organisation– To do ‘this’ job in ‘this’ place

• Opportunity and encouragement– Appraisal/review– Time, financial

• Environment of support – Attitudes and behaviours

Ourselves

• Technical– What I need to know

• Management– How to ensure I have the tools to – well – manage it!

• Personal– How I develop the right attitude, behaviour, response,

motivation, awareness,

• Values and beliefs– Go a long way in developing people who can manage

the uphill nature of change & celebrate the downhill

What is happening in Teaching Learning & Research?Awareness & investigation

What’s the professional response?Evidence based research

Who is doing what?Curiosity & innovation

Analysis & evaluation

It needn’t cost a lot of £’s

SHOESTRING T & D

Mash-upsPopular among IT and Library staff

Pie ‘n Mash, Leeks ‘n Mash, Haggis ‘n Mash etc.

Virtual thingsOn-line meet ups, streaming, Social Media

Information eventsCILIP’s New Professionals

How will you know when it has worked?

Your parachute will land without damaging

• The place you land

• Yourself

• Those you work with

• Those you work for

Thank you& Soft landings

Thanks for use of the photos to:

Clip art Parachutists View of the Alps Creative Commons AttributionsEagle & Moon from earth Wildphotons.comShoestring Jakob NewmanLearning to Parachute US ArmyCpd 23 things ALA