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IASA 86TH ANNUAL EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE & BUSINESS SHOW

How To Assess & Develop Your Personal Career Development Plan

HOW TO ASSESS & DEVELOP YOUR PERSONAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Speaker Contact Information

Steve Gravenkemper, Ph.D. Partner

Talent & Organizational Development Practice

steve.gravenkemper@plantemoran.com

248.223.3699

HOW TO ASSESS & DEVELOP YOUR PERSONAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Agenda

1) Career Planning Overview

2) Embracing a Growth Mindset

3) Career Planning Quadrants

4) Resources: Career Planning Quadrants

5) Talent Scan Tool

HOW TO ASSESS & DEVELOP YOUR PERSONAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Career Assessment Model

World of Work

Abilities Interests Personality

HOW TO ASSESS & DEVELOP YOUR PERSONAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Growth Mindset

Abilities are like muscles, they can be built up

with practice.

• With concerted effort, you can make yourself significantly better or

improve your skills

• You may not be as skilled as others in certain areas, but you can

make big gains to catch up or surpass others in these areas

• Benefit: Falling down or coming up short is viewed as learning, not

failing

HOW TO ASSESS & DEVELOP YOUR PERSONAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Fixed Mindset

Abilities are static (won’t change much one way or the

other)

• You may get a little better or worse at those skills, but basically your

abilities reflect the way that you’re wired

• Your behavior is a good representation of your natural ability

• Benefit: People develop great confidence in what they do well

GROWTH MINDSET EXERCISE

HOW TO ASSESS & DEVELOP YOUR PERSONAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Growth Mindset Benefits

Carole Dweck’s research: Benefits of adopting a growth

mindset include:

• The most effective teams and individuals develop a “learning frame,”

responding to lack of success as part of the learning process, not a

fatal personal flaw

• People demonstrate a greater willingness to stretch outside of comfort

zones

• Increases risk taking

• Increases acceptance of feedback as an important tool for improving

• Encourages taking a long-term view

HOW TO ASSESS & DEVELOP YOUR PERSONAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Growth Mindset: Career Applications

1) Encourages exploration

2) Encourages experimentation

3) The “learning lense” encourages risk taking and moving

beyond one’s comfort zone

4) Supports a belief that you can build and acquire skills with

effort and discipline

5) Views positive and constructive feedback as helpful

information for career planning and professional

development

HOW TO ASSESS & DEVELOP YOUR PERSONAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Growth Mindset: Two Minute Conversation

1) As you think about developing your professional growth

edges, what might be beneficial about embracing a

growth mindset to assist you in getting started?

2) What might be one specific action you could commit to

today that would be helpful in either leveraging one of

your strengths or developing a new or underdeveloped

skill?

HOW TO ASSESS & DEVELOP YOUR PERSONAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Career Planning Quadrants

Growth Edges

Industry Trends

Organizational Needs

Strengths

HOW TO ASSESS & DEVELOP YOUR PERSONAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Career Planning Quadrants

Environment

Growth Edges

Industry Trends

Organizational Needs

Strengths

Individual

HOW TO ASSESS & DEVELOP YOUR PERSONAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Strengths

1) Knowledge

2) Skills

3) Abilities

4) Interests

HOW TO ASSESS & DEVELOP YOUR PERSONAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Growth Edges

1) Leveraging existing strengths

2) Identifying new or key skills to develop

3) Embracing a growth mindset

4) Building and executing on your plan

HOW TO ASSESS & DEVELOP YOUR PERSONAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Organizational Needs

1) Technical skills

• Project management

• Technical certifications

• Technology skills

2) “Soft skills”

• Collaboration/teamwork

• Judgment/problem solving

• Open-mindedness

HOW TO ASSESS & DEVELOP YOUR PERSONAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Industry Trends

1) Publications: Print & Online

2) Professional Associations

3) Social Media

4) Browsing

5) Informational Interviews

HOW TO ASSESS & DEVELOP YOUR PERSONAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Career Planning Quadrants

Individual

Environment

Growth Edges

Industry Trends

Organizational Needs

Strengths

HOW TO ASSESS & DEVELOP YOUR PERSONAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT PLAN

References: Strengths

1) StrengthsFinder 2.0: (2007). Tom Rath

2) Second Acts: Creating the life you really want, building

the career you truly desire. (2013). Stephen Pollan and

Mark Levine

HOW TO ASSESS & DEVELOP YOUR PERSONAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT PLAN

References: Growth Edges

1) Mindset: The new psychology of success. (2006). Carol

S. Dweck

2) Crucial Conversations: Tools for talking when stakes are

high. (2012). Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron

McMillan & Al Switzler

HOW TO ASSESS & DEVELOP YOUR PERSONAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT PLAN

References: Organizational Needs

1) Lean-in: Women, work and the will to lead. (2013). Sheryl

Sandberg

2) How to win friends and influence people (2010). Dale

Carnegie

3) The Brand You: Fifty ways to transform yourself from an

“Employee” into a brand that shouts distinction,

commitment and passion. (1999). Tom Peters

HOW TO ASSESS & DEVELOP YOUR PERSONAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT PLAN

References: Industry Trends

1) Switch: How to change when change is hard. (2010).

Chip Heath and Dan Heath

2) What Color is Your Parachute? 2014: A practical manual

for job-hunters and changers. (2014). Richard Bolles

HOW TO ASSESS & DEVELOP YOUR PERSONAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Talent Scan: Four Key Questions

1) What are three professional strengths that I possess?

2) What might be three things that would help me:

a) move to the next level, or

b) increase my value to my organization in my current role

3) What might be a stretch assignment that I can take on this

year to build my skills?

4) What can my supervisor do to help me?

HOW TO ASSESS & DEVELOP YOUR PERSONAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Talent Scan Tool

TALENT SCAN EXERCISE

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