Planning your parachute jump: preparing yourself and staff for [yet more] change

1. Planning your parachute jump:preparing yourself and staff for [yet more] change Biddy Fisher Past President of CILIP @bikerbid

2. Reminder of what we all know! • Confirmation of what we like to think • Affirmation of the values & beliefs about • Our organisation • Our colleagues • Ourselves

3. The main foci of our career development activities Confidence & competence • Ourselves as practitioners • Staff - for whom we are responsible • Students/learners –whose needs we must be able to meet

4. Main factors influencing our career development • Knowledge – education, academic & professional • Workplace – opportunity, ongoing developments, • Ourselves – motivation, creativity, forethought, analysis, evaluation, experience = solutions, progress, fulfilment

5. Experience tells you what to do: Confidence allows you to do it

6. Professional links • Professional bodies, statutory, regulatory • Networks, local/regional/national/international • Informal or formal • Within organisation and beyond

7. Public confidence • Knowing what standards to expect • Understanding there is a responsibility to be a competent practitioner • Realisation of expectations of expertise, of standards of behaviour and practice • Confidence in accountability of processes, of systems, of governance and audit.

8. Knowledge • All your learning, • facts and applications • Intellectual capability • to understand and process information • To analyse and evaluate in order to decide • Experience • When to take a risk • When to take a measured approach

9. Organisation (employer) • Training and development • To make a better fit • To understand the organisation • To do ‘this’ job in ‘this’ place • Opportunity and encouragement • Appraisal/review • Time, financial • Environment of support • Attitudes and behaviours

10. Ourselves • Technical • What I need to know • Management • How to ensure I have the tools to – well – manage it! • Personal • How I develop the right attitude, behaviour, response, motivation, awareness, • Values and beliefs • Go a long way in developing people who can manage the uphill nature of change & celebrate the downhill

11. What is happening in Teaching Learning & Research? • Awareness & investigation • What’s the professional response? • Evidence based research • Who is doing what? • Curiosity & innovation • Analysis & evaluation

12. It needn’t cost a lot of £’s

13. SHOESTRING T & D • Mash-ups • Popular among IT and Library staff • Pie ‘n Mash, Leeks ‘n Mash, Haggis ‘n Mash etc. • Virtual things • On-line meet ups, streaming, Social Media • Information events • CILIP’s New Professionals

14. How will you know when it has worked? Your parachute will land without damaging • The place you land • Yourself • Those you work with • Those you work for

15. Thank you & Soft landings

16. Thanks for use of the photos to: Clip art Parachutists View of the Alps Creative Commons Attributions Eagle & Moon from earth Wildphotons.com Shoestring Jakob Newman Learning to Parachute US Army Cpd 23 things ALA