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The Care & Feeding of Career Development Professionals ~ Cannexus 2012 ~ Presented by Rob Straby

The Care and Feeding of Career Development Professionals

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The career development field is very broad and requires many different skills and abilities to be effective in today's challenging environment. How do you maintain you leverage? What do you choose to focus on? How do you stay up to date? How do you fit in your learning when there is so little time? This dynamic and interactive session will address these questions and more in two ways. To begin, you will experience a participatory process for learning about best practices. This will be followed by current research on best practices for professional development.

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The Care & Feeding of Career Development Professionals

~ Cannexus 2012 ~

Presented by Rob Straby

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Agenda

• Introductions

• What do professionals want?

• Learning from our experiences

• Self assessment of our learning

• Learning from models of professional development

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Key Question

• What do professionals look for in their careers today?

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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

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What Are The Risks?

• Learning is critically important

• Prevents loss of knowledge

• Increases satisfaction & cross-functional capability

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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

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Learning From Experience

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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?

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Professional Development Assessment

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

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iLern

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iLern Examples

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What’s next for you?

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

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Thank you!

Rob Straby

www.Straby.com