Career Management
in
Turbulent Times
Dame Rennie Fritchie
Dame Rennie Fritchie
– Commissioner for Public Appointments
– Mainstream Development Consultant
– Vice-Chair Stroud & Swindon Building Society
– Pro - chancellor Southampton University
– Hon visiting Professor York University
– Gloucestershire Ambassador
– Charities - Pier Piper, Winston’s Wish
– Radio Producer/Presenter
Session 1
• Share personal journey
• Analyse your interests/intentions
• Tools and techniques
• Biography Questions
• Decision Making Process
• Work Life Balance
• Dealing with Feedback
Session 2
• Getting Started
• Power Bases
• Influencing Styles
• Assessing your Support
• Creative Thinking
• Partnership working
My Personal Journey
Biography Questions
1. What kind of human being
do you want to be?
2. What do you want to do
with your life?
1. Where are you?
2. How did you get
there?
3. Where do you want
to go?
4. How will you get
there?
5. What will you do
when you arrive?
6. Where to next?
7. How do you begin?
Career Management
in
Turbulent Times
Decision Making Process
adapted from Ben Heirs
Stage 1
• THE QUESTION
• Formulating (or reformulating)
a question and gathering
information.
Stage 2
• THE ALTERNATIVES
• Creating alternative answers to
the question.
Stage 3
• THE CONSEQUENCES
• Predicting the future consequences
of acting on each of the alternative
answers and creating the necessary
contingency and hedging plans to
support each alternative.
Stage 4
• THE CRITERIA
• Having considered the implication
and consequence list in order, the
three or four main criteria which
will guide the decision.
Stage 5
• THE DECISION
• Evaluating the alternatives
developed in Stage 2 that survived
Stage 3 in order to make a
decision to act (or not act) by
selecting the best alternative
answer, together with the best
contingency plans, to the question
posed in Stage 1
Career Management
in
Turbulent Times
Work Life Balance
1.As soon as you get a new
diary go through it and put in
all your important dates Birthdays, Anniversaries,
holidays, special events etc.
This will prevent squeezing
them around your working
life.
2. Say ‘NO’ early if it is something
you don’t want or can’t do. If you
find this particularly difficult then
give an indication of your
direction of travel e.g. ‘I think it is
highly unlikely, but I will come
back and confirm’ or ‘I don’t think
it will be possible but I’ll let you
know.’
3. Recognise that things always
take longer than you think, so
build in ‘buffer time’.
4. In times of stress or pressure,
prioritise. Only do, what only you
can do.
5. Separate out the important from
the urgent. Tackle the urgent in
fast time but give slow time to the
important.
6. Give yourself entry and reentry time between work and
home. Leave ‘baggage’ behind.
7. Perfection is not always a
healthy aim. Remember, “not
everything worth doing is worth
doing well”.
8. Guilt can be a destructive and time
consuming emotion, let it go.
9. Use speed-reading to churn
through the paper work. E.g.
Articles - First Paragraph. Last
paragraph. First line in intervening
paragraphs. Books - First chapter
as above. First and last
paragraphs in intervening
chapters.
10. Practice delegating and
mandating. If you don’t have the
resources and staff to do this then
negotiate for more or reduce your
workload. Some jobs are just too
big. Don’t agree to mission
impossible and then blame
yourself when you can’t achieve it.
11. Remember, being part-time
doesn’t mean your contribution is
limited. You can be wholeheartedly
and wholly present and in this way
add real value. It isn’t necessary to
expand your time to almost full-time
on part-time salary.
12. Think about the things you do
just for you and make sure you
have them plentifully scattered
throughout your diary.
Remember nobody loves a martyr!
Career Management
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Feed Back
4 questions
•Is the feedback valid
to any degree?
•Do I rate or respect
the person giving the
feedback?
•Is it important that I
take notice?
•What action can I
take without
compromising my
integrity?
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Session 2
Career Management
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•Getting Selected
•60% Image
•30% Exposure
•10% Ability
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Power Bases
1. Formal Authority
2. Expertise
3. Resource Control
4. Personal/
Communication Skills
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Influencing Styles
• REWARDS & PRESSURES
• Behaviours
• Evaluation. Prescribing
goals and expectations.
Using incentives
• PARTICIPATION &
TRUST
• Behaviours
• Personal disclosure.
Recognising and
involving others. Testing
and expressing
understanding.
• COMMON VISION
• Behaviours
• Articulating exciting
possibilities. Creating
word pictures and long
term visions. Generating
a shared identity.
• LOGICAL PERSUASION
• Behaviours
• Proposing. Reasoning for
and against. Using
factual language.
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Assessing Your Support
Allies
Bedfellows
Opponents
Enemies
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Creative Thinking
•Plus
•Minus
•Interesting
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Partnership Working
1.
2.
3.
4.
Consult
Co-operate
Collaborate
Co-create
Career Management
in
Turbulent Times
TRAVELLER
by
ANTHONY MACHADO
Traveller, the only way is your footsteps, there
is no other.
Traveller, there is no way, you make the way as
you go.
As you go, you make the way,
and stopping to look behind,
you see the path that your feet will never travel
again.
Traveller. There is no way only foam trails in the
sea.