Changing Concept of Career

Need for Tri-Sector Leadership

individuals who are able to bridge the differences that separate the three sectors : Government, Business, Non-for-Profit

Characteristics

Developing tri-sector leadership skills

Personal Rebranding

Able to balance competing motives

Define destination

Leverage points of difference

Develop a narrative

Reintroduce yourself

Prove your worth

develop more holistic and sustainable solutions

Use and acquire transferable skills

Acquire necessary skills

Develop a unique selling proposition and distinguish yourself

develop and use contextual intelligence

Utilise different forms of media to showcase your capabilities

Evolution of the Employer Contrract

forge intellectual threads

Path for tri-sector leaders varies eg (Barack Obama)

able to build integrated networks

White Collar work, not blue collar

Maintain a prepared mind

Describe transition in terms of the value it offers to others

Traditional Employer-Employee Contract

Establish and promote your track record

Stable job

At the beginning of the career

Life-time employment and a sense of loyalty to the organisation


Mid-career

Towards the end of the career

Generally a predictable career trajectory

Undertaking joint-degree programs

Undertaking fellowships

Mentoring budding tri-sector leaders

Low employee turnover

Contemporary employer-employee contract

Incoporatimg tri-sector leadership development

Volatile environment - there is rapid unpredictable change

Undergoing training and mentoring programs

Employees are in charge of their own destiny and therefore employability


Accurately assess differences in context and translate across them

Attending conferences where mentors may be found

Focus on a particular issue or theme over time

Media training/establishing connections with the media

Due to a lack of job security, employees are encouraged to be more adaptable and 'entrepeneurial'

Necessary to overcome systematic barriers across sectors

Particularly significant for a cross-sectorial career.

Utilised so teams develop solutions for cross-sectorial issues

Employee retention is extremely difficult as the most adaptable employees seek 'greener pastures' elsewhere, meaning they continually search for better employment

Mindset

Classroom training not effective

Mindset can be considered more important than employability

Studies have shown that the best employees are the ones who believe they have unlimited potential

Growth Mindset Model

Understand

Explore

Support

Understand yourself

Step out of comfort zone and try new things

Having a supporting figure - someone to encourage throughout work journey

Strategies to Develop Employee-Employer contract as Allies