Planning your next move

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Planning Your Next Moves

Suha Rasheed, PMP, Prince2Associate Consultant and Trainer

Intrinsic Management Services

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Planning Your Next Move…Now Steps Where I need to be


Planning for Success…

Self Assessment

Objectives Setting

PlanningDevelopment

Enhancement


Setting Goals for Your CareerSh

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Understand your organization objectives, plan and visionOrganization

Understand market demand, recommendation and practicesMarket

Identify your short-term objectives 1 – 2 yearsObjectives

Understand and link to your current roles and responsibilitiesCareer

Personal traits developmentPersonal

Address your technical gapsTechnical

Link short-term to long-term planningFuture

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Long

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Continuously align with organization objectivesOrganization

Understand market demand, recommendation and practicesMarket

Identify where you want to be in 3 – 5 years timeObjectives

Understand your future responsibilities and roleCareer

Revisit your self-assessmentPersonal

Continuous learningTechnical

Use planning to enhance your organization performanceEnhance

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Goals StatementSh

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•Improve cash flow •Complete our construction project

Organization

•Reduction of costMarket

•Manage my project successfully•Meet my organization objectivesObjectives

•Improve my performance•Earn a bonus / Salary raiseCareer

•Improve Presentation/Reporting SkillsPersonal

•Improve my risk management skills•Achieve better control over change

Technical

•Be able to manage our next mega projectFuture

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•Be market leader•New sectors opportunitiesOrganization

•Implement and achieve international certificationMarket

•Lead the project management practiceObjectives

•Manage Multiple projects at the same timeCareer

•Exposed to international/regional customersPersonal

•Train other colleagues and establish own methodologyTechnical

•Create new ideas and help advance my organizationEnhance

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Example of a Plan

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Activities2010 2011 2012

Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec …

Self Assessment

Review Training History

Review Performance Findings

Discuss with your superiors

Understand your weaknesses

Understand your strengths

List down your job function

Objectives / Goals

What do I want to get improve

How does it link to my performance

Detailed How does it link to my organization

Timing

Planning / Development

Understand Market Offering

Link it to your immediate needs

Look for what is next

Compare Offering

Start Training


Facing Barriers and Moving Forward…

• Use barrier to develop yourself,

• Understand the core reasons and react,

• Measure success, note lessons learned,

• Enhance your plans and move forward.


Half of the Orange Story...

You have two girls and one Orange and you need to make both girls happy, what do you ?

Split into two half ?

Squeeze it ? Or what else ?

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Do you know Them…?

• Industry: Technology• Rank in Forbes: 2nd, $53B• Age: 54• Dropped out of Harvard

• Industry: Media• ART Founder and Owner• Ambitious style in normal

family, selling hand-made toys for kids.

• Industry: Authoring• Harry-Potter, the best selling

books worldwide• Various set-backs in marriage

and life from divorce to rough and difficult times

• Industry: Automotive• Mr. Honda• Started making scooters at

own home.


Conclusions…• Understand your potential,• Plan to improve your career on short and long terms,• Consult with people who has been through similar

experiences,• User failure and barriers as means for development,• Continuously measure your achievements and learn

from your lessons.

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Winston Churchill said: "Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and

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