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Changing concept of career (Characteristics of tri-sector leaders…
Changing concept of career
Characteristics of tri-sector leaders
Balancing competing motives
Want to create public value
Combine idealism and pragmatism
Idealism: pursuit of perfection
Pragmatism: evaluation of theories or beliefs in terms of their practicality
Acquiring transferable skills
Government regulation that brings together competing interests that create a environment which benefits the public.
Developing contextual intelligence
The ability to identify parallels between the sectors
Assessing the contextual differences between the sectors
Forging an intellectual thread
Focuses on the idea of continuously learning
Allows transcending of cross-sectorial boundaries and sector-based thinking
Building integral networks
Often used to convene project teams
Think tanks - pooling of all ideas to develop solutions for cross-sectorial issues
Maintaining a prepared mind
Being financially prepared to take a less financially viable position in the short term.
Focusing on a set of skills, rather than an individual career or career path.
Developing tri-sector leaders
Life cycle approach
Beginning of career
Joint-degree programs
Training and mentoring from multiple sectors
Mid-Career
Find people with shared interests/fellowships
Connect with the media
Seek mentorship
End of career
Succession planning assuring tri-sector leadership in developed
Mentoring tri-sector leaders
Becoming Allies
Tour of duty
Entering into fixed term projects
Aware of expected benefits and when term is over
Can act as a retention tool
Alumni networks
Access diverse information
deliver lifetime loyalty in reciprocation for lifetime employment
Networks
Improves the ability of an individual to be creative and innovative
Encouraged to be performed inside the workplace and outside the workplace
Need for tri-sector leaders
Main idea here, is that collaboration is needed between government, for-profit and not-for-profit sectors to solve many difficult problems
Outcome: sustainable, holistic solutions.
Benefit: make yourself more attractive in the sense of gaining employment
Mindset
Mindset can be considered to be more important than employability
Studies have shown that the best employees are the ones who believe that they have unlimited potential
Classroom training of employability is not very effective.
Growth mindset model
Understand
The first step is understanding yourself.
Explore
Stepping within the uncomfortable zone, whilst being critical
Support
Having a supporting figure, someone to encourage them throughout their journey.