Applying visual thinking to career development
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This talk was presented at the Delivery Leads meetup held at MYOB on 10th August 2016 Talk Abstract - Quite often people don't make a career development plan and even if they do it's not very effective if it only stays in their head. Well they say "out of sight out of mind" for a reason. This talk is based on a recent experiment that I did in order to visualise my career development plan. This can be applied to any role or organisation and you don't need any special skills or tools to develop such a plan.
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Applying visual thinking to career development
- 1. @jatin_bhasin Applying visual thinking to career development
- 2. My career needs development?
- 3. I know my motivation
- 5. My journey
- 6. Skills and objectives map
- 8. Iteration 1
- 9. Iteration 2
- 12. Create a toolkit
- 13. Choose thy path
- 14. • Specific • Measurable • Attainable • Relevant • Time bound
- 15. Listen
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- Hi All, my name is Jatin and I work as a BA at MYOB. I hope you are having a good time. I know its quite late and I promise I wont take too long. This is a short presentation about a recent experiment that I did with my development plan. And the reason that I chose to present this talk in the dev leads meetup is because along with process and technology side of things the dev leads also deal with a lot of people issues. And I strongly believe if you want to succeed as a team or as a project or even as a company you need to set the people for success too. Just the way you would not want the business to keep going with the flow, you would rather have some strategies in place to make it succeed, similarly you would want every individual in your team to have strategies for themselves that can take them forward and help them meet their aspirations. I can confidently say that career development is one thing on which MYOB puts a lot of focus.
- But before we start taking about my little experiment and how I am finding it useful, its important to make sure everyone here understands what a career development plan is all about. Please raise your hand if you have a career development plan for yourself How do you maintain it, is it in form of a document or is it something that you have in mind ? A career plan lists short- and long-term career goals and the actions you can take to achieve them. Once you have figured out these goals you can think of the journey that will take you there. What do you need to do today in order to be where you want to be.
- A lot of times we confuse ourselves by thinking money is our ultimate motivation and as long as I am making more and more money year on year I am probably heading in the right direction, but that may not necessarily be true. David Mann and Bob Burg came up with a book called “The Go-Giver” which talks about three universal reasons why we work: survive, save, serve. The first two - Survival and saving have to do with meeting our basic needs and having some time and money left over to enjoy life – go on holidays, buy new cars or home. Service has to do with making a meaningful contribution to the world around us. Most people get stuck on the first two stages, but never figure out a way to reach a place of purpose in their work. But if you look around and look at any successful person in life they would have started off with some problem statement, something that they thought was not right, something that could be improved, and while they improve that something – they don’t just do it for themselves but may be that idea is so awesome that people just love it and cant live without it. I think that’s what happenned with iPod and later with iPhone. So in a nutshell, separate out money aspect while thinking about your goals, it will follow
- The other thing which is most important to keep in mind is that you need to be in charge of your career and no one else. It is not your manager’s or your company’s responsibility to come up with your career plan. They can guide you through your journey and they can provide you means to achieve your goals such as trainings or perhaps opportunities but ultimately you need to take control in your hands. Its also important to realize that you do not have to tie your career development plan to the organization you work at, this is something that will stay with you even after you leave the organization.
- But it took me a while to realize how important this stuff was and how could I devise a plan for myself. So my story is that I started off my career as a QA and then became a senior QA. But then I started to think what do I want to do for the rest of my life, I started thinking of some goals for myself and that’s where it struck me that wherever I want to be doing the BA role will be more helpful and then I gradually transitioned to that role. I started thinking of skills and activities that I need to do or master in order to be a great BA.
- I am not sure if anybody here has seen these graphs before . They were Presented by Paul Matthews at Last conf last year. The solid graphs in this picture indicate skills that I am familiar with and have been doing for a while and the dotted line indicates the areas that I would want to work on. I do not really want to jump into the details of how it works because that will require a presentation on itself. I feel this is a good way to identify things you would want to learn but at the same time you cant really track progress of those.
- But being Bas we love all things visual. So earlier this year, Tanya joined MYOB as a dev manager and because of her background in BA I started catching up with her regularly and that’s where I shared my skiils-activity graph with her and she suggested by don’t we make it visual, why don’t we track each skills as a card on a wall, And that was like the AHA moment for me
- So I created a simple trello board with the 3 columns we are all familiar with - to do - doing and done Each card on the board represents a skill that I would want to acquire And by the way I have just created a dummy board for the purpose of this presentation – so this is not my development plan But the idea is quiet simple yet effective. The cards on the extreme left are your skills backlog and on the right are the skills you have acquired. You can also decide a priority order for this backlog so you can work on certain areas first and some later.
- But moving the skills from to do column to done is not as straightforward as it sounds. Because you can continue to work on a particular skill set for a very long time unless you can confidently say that you have nailed it. So just like any other agile project wall, my skills board has evolved too From to do, doing and done we have now changed the column headings to “to learn”, “working on it”, “on top of it” and “smashed it” This is a terminology that we use at MYOB as part of performance review process. You can cal yourself on top of a particular skillset when you have done it a few times but in order to move it to the extreme right that is smashed it – you need to be in a position of mastering that skill set. You need to be in a position where you can teach this to others.
- So in way there is an element of acceptance criteria in order for a card to move to the column on right. And it doesn’t have to based on gut feeling, you can gather feedback from your peers or supervisors to validate your thought process regarding the progress for that particular skill set.
- Trello allows you to create a checklist in a card This checklist can be used as a way of tracking progress for a card In this example here if I want to learn and master various measurement techniques – I can create the checklist and mark them off as they are done and until they are all done I should move the card across to the next column. I am taking a hypothetical example here – and as one progresses they can see the percentage bar moving further
- Not just that, you can also capture notes in form of comments against each card. This can help you have anytime access to your notes as well as create a toolkit of sorts For example if I want to master the art of facilitating inceptions – I can capture notes after running each inception or workshop – I can mention the kind of techniques used by me or other facilitators so over a period of time – and as a result I will have my own toolkit ready so when I am doing an inception next time I can refer my notes here So this was all about my little experiment.
- If you want to do something for yourself. You need to first identify what career path you want to go to. You need to Identify Your Career Options by examining your interests, skills, and values through self-assessment. Choose the career paths that are best for you. If you’re early in your planning, then identifying multiple options may be best. You can try and evaluate a few options before making your mind.
- Once you have identified your long term goal, you need to divide that into smaller milestones. This could be your way of creating sub goals that can take you to your end goal While creating goals you need to keep these 5 ground rules in mind Specific -- Identify your goal clearly and specifically. Avoid being vague. As an example a goal could be – increase business revenue where as a SMART goal could be to increase business by 15% annually Measureable -- Include clear criteria to determine progress and accomplishment. So instead of saying you want to gain more clients by participating in networking events, you want to gain at least 2 new clients in such networking events. Attainable -- The goal should have a 50 percent or greater chance of success. Avoid moonshots and think of things that you can achieve Relevant -- The goal is important and relevant to you. It should be in line with where you ultimately want to be Time bound -- Commit to a specific timeframe. If you do not assign an end date to each of these you will probably actively work on them
- Now that you have made a plan for yourself. Make sure you bounce it off with others. You can share it with your managers or even your peers. You may not want to share the plan as such but you can still talk about activities that you intend to do and people can suggest you things that they would have done in those situations. You can learn a lot from others experience as well.
- Anybody knows who this guy is? Any guesses? That;s right – this is walt disney – I am not sure how many of you know that he used be a newspaper editor and was in fact sacked for his lack of creativity So basically what I am trying to say is that you can identify goals and make plans to achieve them, however, you may still not succeed in the first attempt but its absoutely OK to FAIL. Review you plans, make necessary changes and move on. Failure should not stop you from planning and moving forward
- I would like to end the talk with this quote from french writer whose name I cant correctly pronounce.