portfolio not pipeline: career success- margaretta noonan
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2013 Women Leaders ConferenceTRANSCRIPT
Portfolio Not Pipeline: Career Success
Margaretta Noonan
What are the external factors driving this?• 10,000 baby boomer turn 65 every day• 1.5 million too few workers with college or graduate
degrees by 2020 (Americas)• the trend to disaggregate jobs( breaking jobs down
into specialized tasks) will pick up speed• there is unprecedented value placed on talent as the
driver of business success which increases the competition for proven, talented employees
ASSORTMENT
VARIETY
SETMIXTURE “COLLECTED
WORKS”
GROUP
SELECTIONRANGE
“Success is not a one-liner or a headline, it’s a novel you write
over time.”
Laura Nash &Howard Stevenson
Just Enough, 2004 (Wiley)Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
“Portfolio Life”
Pay, Purpose, Play
Jon GlesingerFounder, gleXnet
and Expert Alumni
How do you help others?• Be forthright
• Help them reconsider success
• Offer portfolio building opportunities
How do you help others?• Cross-train• Rotate assignments• Put people on special projects• Share leadership duties• Support them outside your workgroup• Support their outside interests
How do you help yourself?• Be forthright
• Define your success
• Increase portfolio enhancing options
What might those options look like?
Hear them roar: Global 500 women CEOs
• Are you building Competence?Experience?
• Have you defined yourPreferences?Availability?
• Is it within my values?
• Does it allow pursuit of my passions?
• Does it create options for me?
Tess MateoFounder, CX Catalysts