My employer, an Australian university, encourages its staff to be active about their personal and professional development. A framework is provided for setting individual goals and reviewing them quarterly.
This is my list of goals for the next 6-8 months. Each goal comes with one or more ways to measure the outcome. Because my formal position description (Manager Web Services) no longer applies, this list of goals is effectively a replacement for that document. The role is likely to change again at the end of the year, so there’s not much point in doing the paperwork to update my PD at this stage.
Goals for July 2007 to March 2008:
- Learn about collection, analysis and reporting of data to support University business planning and performance metrics:
- Provide administrative support for Management Information System (MIS) project
- Contribute to establishing an Enterprise Information Architecture community of practice:
- Help to organise regular information-sharing sessions among relevant and interested staff
- Help to organise 2-3 Information Futures Forums with external guest speakers
- Establish an online presence for EIA
- External knowledge transfer activities — networking, research and collaboration opportunities, conference presentations
- Contribute to success of the “Library of the Future” initiative:
- Facilitate Integrated Metrics and Best-Practice Services working groups, and the various ‘change’ projects that emerge from them
- Contribute to establishing a business strategy for Information Services online presence and services:
- Mentoring for project manager — organisational knowledge, project management techniques
- Business and web analysis services
- Contribute to Information Management initiatives, ad hoc as needed:
- Framework and policy development
- Participation in working groups
- Business process, information and web analytics
There’s a common thread among these activities — not sure what to call it yet, but it’s in there… I’ll post periodic updates on each of these goals, and see what emerges.
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