Notes on the MOOC “Enhance your career and Employability skills” Week 1
Integrity. “Form follows function” - results driven, challenging work. Flexibility with respect to tooling (flexibility/innovation over process). Data driven decisions. The customer is not always right; sometimes they don’t know what they’re looking for. Mass collaboration over individual work. Automate relentlessly. Sense of purpose and results.
Lifeline
- Positive Emotions: curiosity, hope, gratitude, joy, enthusiasm, pride, generosity
- Negative Emotions: worry, dread, anger, sorrow, frustration, envy, selfishness
Peaks
- New Job
- Productivity
Troughs
- Change in management
- Lack of acknowledgement/recognition
- Opinion and expertise is ignored
Test and Learn
“You don’t know what you don’t know”
Crafting Experiments
Currently I have the opportunity to place myself for nomination for the executive team for a local toastmasters club; I really should just see what it is like to be part of a committee.
Try doing tasks using different tools. Try generalising approaches.
MOOCs
Shifting Experiences
See how I could get a taste for leadership roles. Is it for me?
Making Sense
to be revisited
Value Grid
| Value | Description | Free Choice | Half | Top three |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Using your abilities | Not feeling like you could do the job with one hand tied behind your back. Stretching yourself. Using your skills. | Y | ||
| Accomplishment | Feeling that you achieve something. You have clear goals. You can see a result for your efforts. | Y | Y | |
| Being busy | Not having stretches of time when you have nothing to do. You have a buzz of activity. | Y | ||
| Being responsible | Taking charge of your own work and the work of others. Being accountable. | Y | Y | |
| Variety of task | Every day is not the same because you do different things. | Y | ||
| Variety of environment | Every day is not the same because you are in different places. | |||
| Variety of contact | Every day is not the same because you are interacting with different people. | |||
| Adventure | You regularly take risks and have feelings of exhilaration or danger. | Y | ||
| Fun | You are able to be light-hearted. You don’t have to be serious all the time. | Y | ||
| Prestige environment | The place where you work is held in high regard as a major player in the field. | Y | Y | |
| Advancement | There are opportunities to be promoted to higher positions. | Y | Y | |
| Money | You earn or have the potential to earn a larger than average salary. You have perks, such as a company car, etc. | |||
| Development | There are opportunities to enhance, expand or develop your role and learn new things. | Y | ||
| Recognition | When you perform well, your efforts are acknowledged or rewarded by praise, promotion or money. | Y | Y | |
| Authority | You get to tell people what to do. You give direction to others. | Y | ||
| Social status | You feel proud when you tell people what you do for a living. People think your job is interesting or glamorous | |||
| Colleagues | The people you work with are easy to get on with or interesting. There are opportunities for socialising with colleagues. | |||
| Helping individuals | You are involved in providing aid and assistance to people directly. | |||
| Helping society | You are doing something which contributes beneficially to society. | |||
| Caring | You are involved in showing support, empathy and love to others. | |||
| Nurturing | You are involved in helping other people to develop. | |||
| Justifiable | What you are doing fits in with your moral value system. | |||
| Fairness | You and other workers are treated fairly by your employer. You have good conditions of employment. | |||
| Spirituality | Your work allows you to express or explore your faith. | |||
| Management | You have a good working relationship with your boss. Your manager\'s way of working fits in well with your own. | |||
| Training | Structured opportunities for learning are provided and supported. | |||
| Creativity | You get to generate new ideas or solutions to problems. You get to innovate and be original. | Y | Y | Y |
| Decision making | You get to make some of the choices that affect your work. | Y | ||
| Autonomy | You have some freedom to do things when you want and how you want. | Y | ||
| Being expert | You have the opportunity to gain and use an in-depth knowledge of a subject. You are sought for advice in this area. | Y | Y | Y |
| Competition | You get the opportunity to test your abilities against others. | Y | Y | Y |
| Subject | Your work is enjoyable because you have a strong interest in the subject matter you are dealing with. | |||
| Aesthetics | You deal with ideas or things that are beautiful and require appreciation. | |||
| Quality | You work in situations in which precision and attention to detail are important, or where there is little room for error. | |||
| Security | You have security of employment. It is not likely that you will lose your job or have to find another job regularly. | |||
| Stress-free | You do not have to work under high levels of stress. The pressure of work is not too high and there is little conflict. | |||
| Health | Your work positively contributes to your physical and psychological wellbeing. | |||
| Stability | Work routines and duties are largely predictable and not likely to be subject to sudden or unforeseen changes. | |||
| Hours | You do not work more than average or irregular hours. Your job does not impinge on your family or social life. The patterns of work suit your lifestyle. | Y | ||
| Resources | You have the materials, equipment and money you need to do the job. You are not expected to produce great results without the right tools. | |||
| Workspace | The place where you work is comfortable and suited to your working style and personal preferences. | |||
| Supportive | The organisation you work for is open and tolerant. Your views are sought and respected during decision making. | Y | ||
| Cooperation | Your work requires operating as part of a team and interacting with others to achieve a goal. | Y |