The Intelligent Career Card Sort (ICCS) – An Experiential Exercise for Students and Knowledge Workers

Facilitator: Michael B. Arthur, Suffolk University email marthur@suffolk.edu

Wednesday, June 25, 3:00pm - 5:00pm

Join us for a pre-conference workshop before the 2008 MOPAN conference. The workshop will demonstrate an experiential exercise for students or consulting clients to examine their knowledge work investments. It will feature the Intelligent Career Card Sort (ICCS), an online card sort exercise based on “intelligent career” theory developed by Robert DeFillippi and Michael Arthur. The theory postulates that knowledge workers invest in and collaborate through three interdependent “ways of knowing,” reflecting the worker’s identity and motivation (knowing-why), skills and expertise (knowing-how) and relationships and reputation (knowing-whom).

The ICCS exercise calls on students or clients to reflect on their present knowledge work investments based on the intelligent career framework. You will complete the ICCS yourself and participate in a follow-up “peer coaching” activity. This activity is designed to help both you and your peer coach interpret your present knowledge work investments and the arenas in which they take place, and to develop action plans for the future. By the conclusion of the workshop, you will have experienced a design for applying the ICCS in your teaching or consulting practice.

The workshop will require around one hour of pre-conference homework. No additional fee will be required.