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Career Planning

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the deliberate process through which someone becomes aware of personal skills, interests, knowledge, motivations, and other characteristics; acquires information about opportunities and choices; identifies career-related goals; and establishes action plans to attain specific goals.

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Career Development

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the lifelong series of activities (such as workshops) that contribute to a person’s career exploration, establishment, success, and fulfillment

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Occupational Orientation

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the theory that there are six basic personal orientations that determine the sorts of careers to which people are drawn

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New Approaches to Career Development

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more frequent job transitions linear career paths lose definition primary stakeholder is the person more dynamic and holistic approach to career development focus on lifelong learning and flexibility

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Career Anchors – Edgar Schein

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Technical/functional Managerial competence Creativity Autonomy and independence Security Service/dedication Pure challenge Lifestyle

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Focus on Life Trajectories

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Shift in thinking from: traits and states to context prescriptive to process linear to non-linear scientific facts to narrative evaluations describing to modelling

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Roles in Career Development: The Individual

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individual must accept responsibility for career requires: self-motivation independent learning effective time and money management self-promotion networking is the foundation of effective career management

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Roles in Career Development: The Manager

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should provide timely and objective performance feedback offer developmental assignments and support participate in career development discussions act as a coach, appraiser, advisor, and referral agent

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Roles in Career Development: The Employer

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provide career-oriented training and development opportunities offer career information and programs offer a variety of career options

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Managing Transfers

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Employees seek: greater possibility of advancement personal enrichment more interesting job greater convenience Employers want to: to fill vacant positions find better fit for an employee

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Making Promotion Decisions

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Decision 1: Is Seniority or Competence the Rule? Decision 2: How Is Competence Measured? Decision 3: Is the Process Formal or Informal? Decision 4: Vertical, Horizontal, or Other? 

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Management Development

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Any attempt to improve current or future management performance by imparting knowledge, changing attitudes, or increasing skills.

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Importance of Management Development

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Baby Boomers entering retirement increased demand for next generation to assume senior management management development attracts talent helps organization achieve employer-of-choice status

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Management Development Process

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Assessing HR needs to achieve strategic objectives Creating a talent pool Developing managers

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Succession Planning

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A process through which senior-level and critical strategic job openings are planned for and eventually filled.

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Steps in Succession Planning

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Establish strategic direction of organization Identify core skills and competencies needed in critical jobs Identify employees who have, or can acquire, the skills and provide developmental opportunities

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Management Development: Techniques

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developmental job rotation coaching/understudy approach action learning outside seminars

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Management Development: Techniques

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college/university-related programs in-house development centres behaviour modelling mentoring

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Leadership Development

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Canada facing shortage of leadership talent Banff Centre leadership program requirements for successful leadership: knowledge, competency, character six categories of leadership competencies:

  1. self-mastery,
  2. futuring/vision
  3. sense-making/thinking
  4. design of intelligent action
  5. aligning people to action/leading
  6. adaptive learning
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Roles in Career Development: The Individual

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