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Professional Development

Professional Development. Mark E. Funk, P.E. Senior Project Director. July 2012. Agenda. Ask questions Opening comments Background & development path forward Answer LEAP questions Cheap advice Open discussion. Questions to LEAP. Do you have a firm professional achievement goal?

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Professional Development

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  1. Professional Development Mark E. Funk, P.E. Senior Project Director July 2012

  2. Agenda • Ask questions • Opening comments • Background & development path forward • Answer LEAP questions • Cheap advice • Open discussion

  3. Questions to LEAP Do you have a firm professional achievement goal? Yes or No In the next 10 years I expect my annual income to be? a. $50K - $100K b. $100K - $200K c. >$200K I expect to work at SRNS in five years? Yes or No I expect to retire from SRNS? Yes or No

  4. Questions to LEAP • To obtain my professional achievement goal I am willing to? a. Relocate more than once b. Relocate more than three times • To obtain my professional achievement goal I am willing to delay family? • Yes or no • For me, strong separation between work life and home life is important • Yes or no • For me, it is more important to a. Live to work b. Work to live

  5. Opening Comments Review answers Overview Expectations Handouts

  6. Background • Brief Description of History at Fluor: • Career Path: Project Controls, Engineering, Project Engineering, Commissioning, Project Management • Groups: Power (6 yrs), FGG (6.5 yrs), Corporate (1.5 yr) • Offices: Irvine, AV, Charlotte, Greenville and Dallas • Work experience: Advancing positions on lump-sum and reimbursable, open and closed shop, EPC projects both within and outside of the United States. Five site-based assignments. Project manager on 2005 Hugh K. Coble Project Excellence award winning project. Selected as Director of Operations, Office of the Chairman. • Education: • B.S. Civil Engineering, California Polytechnic University • Registered Engineer • PMP Certification • Current Assignment: • Project Director, American Recovery & Reinvestment Act; $1.4B portfolio of projects

  7. Goals • 5 - Year Goal: • Manage or preferably lead a complex E&C project • Increased exposure to business development and senior levels of customer organizations • Develop employees • Continue to develop professionally; address soft areas • Executive Director • 10 - Year Goal: • Lead a complex, ‘big Fluor’ project , strategic alliance or Business Line • International assignment • Manage a Fluor office • Develop employees • Continue to develop professionally; address soft areas • Officer of the corporation with P/L responsibility

  8. Self Assessment

  9. Next Steps • Development Needs: • Increased levels of leadership responsibility and customer engagement • Specific Development Actions Planned: • Formal training (support ‘New Leader Pilot’, public speaking course) • Current Work Experience • Execution and shared P/L responsibility for $1.4B Project • Continue to strengthen / manage customer relationships • Meet demanding project schedule while addressing significant employee risk present in nuclear operations environment • Lead cultural change of increased employee accountability while reducing the size of incumbent workforce • Potential Future Work Experience • Complex E&C project • Peer network building portfolio assignment • Career Issues: • Lack of complex project, E&C work experience • Leadership role opportunities required for future growth

  10. Why do this?

  11. Management Versus Leadership Adapted from Kotter, J.P. (1990) A force for change: How leadership differs from Management, New York: Free Press

  12. LEAP Questions • In terms of short-term goals, how specific is specific enough? • Do you have any advice on how to best handle sudden or unexpected changes in your organization or specific job assignment • Is it Ok to say No? or When to say No. • How to effectively communicate when you are not interested in a specific opportunity. • How do you recognize a 'good' assignment vs. a 'bad' assignment? • Have you ever taken an assignment that has negatively impacted your career?

  13. LEAP Questions • How much should you rely on others (i.e. Mentors) to help you establish your career path? • Does your path's direction rely solely on you or is it a combination of you and your mentor? • Has there been a time where he's been very frustrated by his career? • And how has he dealt with it? • Also, how did he get into management, and what's the most valuable thing he did to help himself get there

  14. Mark’s Top 10 10. Understanding peoples’ motivations is important 1. No one will care more about your career than you 2. Your next assignment will be primarily governed by your performance in your current assignment 3. Life is what happens while you are making other plans 4. People like to work with people they have worked with before or who come recommended from people they trust 5. Silence is consent 6. Do what you say you will do 7. If you aren’t convinced, no one will be 8. Focus on solutions, not problems 9. No one has the ‘secret plan’ in their desk drawer

  15. Take Aways • Model behavior of the position you seek • 11 dimensions • Leadership versus management • Integrity matters • Make it personal • Build relationships • A adventuresome spirit is helpful • Take care of your colleagues • Take care of your family • Set goals • Take a leap of faith

  16. Open Discussion • Questions

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