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