Career Projects
Tech-engaged educators in global settings tend to be incredibly busy these days. They work with many cultures and value systems. They work across multiple organizations. They leverage any number of stacks and technical platforms, and they are learning to collaborate with AI partners.
They certainly work in many a “temporary initiative in a unique context undertaken to create value”. Whether these are called assignments, initiatives, or cross functional teams, each is what the Project Management Institute (PMI) defines as a “project”,
From projects, tech-engaged global educators can gain a lot of practical know-how. Once they do, many aim to leverage this know-how in dream initiatives for themselves. When they apply project know-how to their dreams, setting boundaries and deadlines, and managing resources around them, these dreams become “career projects”. That is, temporary initiatives that create assets for current networks and value for individual careers going forward are “career projects”.
Why do educators commit themselves to career projects when they are incredibly busy these days ? What sorts of purposes do they generally have?
Get a (Better) Job
Leverage AI Appropriately
To Inform and Empower Their Co-workers
To Better Facilitate Design Across Teams and Silos
To Launch a New Business/Found an Organization