Portfolio Not Pipeline: Career Success

Margaretta Noonan

What are the external factors driving this?• 10,000 baby boomer turn 65 every day• 1.5 million too few workers with college or graduate

degrees by 2020 (Americas)• the trend to disaggregate jobs( breaking jobs down

into specialized tasks) will pick up speed• there is unprecedented value placed on talent as the

driver of business success which increases the competition for proven, talented employees

ASSORTMENT

VARIETY

SETMIXTURE “COLLECTED

WORKS”

GROUP

SELECTIONRANGE

“Success is not a one-liner or a headline, it’s a novel you write

over time.”

Laura Nash &Howard Stevenson

Just Enough, 2004 (Wiley)Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson

“Portfolio Life”

Pay, Purpose, Play

Jon GlesingerFounder, gleXnet

and Expert Alumni

How do you help others?• Be forthright

• Help them reconsider success

• Offer portfolio building opportunities

How do you help others?• Cross-train• Rotate assignments• Put people on special projects• Share leadership duties• Support them outside your workgroup• Support their outside interests

How do you help yourself?• Be forthright

• Define your success

• Increase portfolio enhancing options

What might those options look like?

Hear them roar: Global 500 women CEOs

• Are you building Competence?Experience?

• Have you defined yourPreferences?Availability?

• Is it within my values?

• Does it allow pursuit of my passions?

• Does it create options for me?

Tess MateoFounder, CX Catalysts