Managing Self

 Applied Learning Objective

 Activity

 Results
Extend my current secondment assignment to live and work in the UK My initial assignment began in October 2011 and ended in October 2012 for a 1 year term as Audience Development Manager in London.

My second longer term assignment began in February 2013 for a period of 3 years.  Therefore at the start of this program I had 6 months left on my visa/ contract and assignment.

I worked with my line manager, Publishing Director and HR resource to attempt to have my contract finalized prior to the Christmas holiday.   This was completed in January and my visa was filed for and received at with a few weeks spare.

 

 

 My current assignment has been extended until 2018.

My current intention with my partner is to stay living and working in London and we are working towards the legal recognition of that.
 Grow/ Change roles to wider remit, play on my strengths and align with business objectives New role discussed with my line manager and Publishing Director in August of 2015 as part of my visa renewal process

Draft job description submitted and finalized in November

Title finalized in January – Head of Data Science role

Team transition and internal communications began

April 1st- official notation of change of role and title

  Feedback on my new role and accomplishments has been very positive thus far.

I have begun a review of our other commercial businesses (advertising through display and recruitment) and have scheduled meeting dates for sharing of some points of optimization and business growth from my perspective.

New products have begun a shift from a start up type metric model to a more scaled-up sustainable growth model.  For example, websites for new products were built quickly and cost effectively for their time.  Now that revenue streams have developed we need to apply the same core fundamentals of good digital marketing infrastructure to them to scale – i.e SEO, social, direct marketing optimization
 Establishing myself as a valuable peer rather than subordinate to others  Understanding of relationship dynamics and how my behavior can change that dynamic  I’ve changed my behavior in 1. immediately addressing situations in which I am patronized by addressing that with feedback at the time of/immediately thereafter an incident

2. Owning my active voice rather than apologizing for something I’ve not done wrong

3. Ensuring I have multiple professional feedback mechanisms from various key stakeholders within our matrix management functionality
 Expertise in data science  Using industry resources, tutorials to understand latest methods and easiest ways to implement; trying to further understand how specialist vs. generalist my skills are required for delivery of business results – i.e. known knowns, known unknowns  Continually evolving!
Knowledge sharing – New Scientist Maintaining my leadership position as a core communicator and collaborator at New Scientist – organizing the summer party 2 years in a row now for all staff

On-boarding and general New Scientist commercial awareness training for every single new member of staff – have done at least 10 presentations so far this year for newcomers

  Continually evolving!
Knowledge sharing – RBI and RELX  DME peer working group

RBI Women’s Networking

Corporate Communications

RELX – Elsevier

RELX – Mendeley

RBI -Agriculture

RBI – ICIS

RBI – Accuity

RBI – FlightGlobal

RBI- Estate’s Gazette – shared content amplification and paywall/ gating strategies and successes with Editorial Content Product Manager

  Continually evolving!
 Knowledge sharing – Wider professional community Attended Google Cloud Platform seminar on future of digital media in July 2016

Attended private dinner event hosted by CognitionX – have since been asked to speak at a related event

Participating in PPA and AOP awards submissions

Actively attending technology and data conferences and networking events – I have met my counterparts at The Economist and The Telegraph face to face to date

  Continually evolving!

 

APPENDIX NOTES

Techniques for self development

  • job description creation
  • visa approval
  • managing upwards/ expectations
  • personal values

Job description Kim Karman

Peer Working Group – coaching sessions

  • take ownership over process/ contract
  • assertiveness – emails/ meetings – follow up

Knowledge sharing agent – examples

Career development conversations