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Written by Emelda Libanga
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Friday, 10 June 2011 |
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 From the time I decided to take up journalism as my career, one thing I was sure of was that I wanted to excel and be an influential voice in the media industry and society as a whole.
After graduating from university, I was convinced I had done what needed to be done to excel in my career. With a bachelor of Mass Communication degree in my arms I reclined into my career hammock and began to swing as I waited for opportunities to present themselves on a silver platter. To my disappointment, things did not turn out the way I expected. As captain of my career ship I abandoned my duty of steering to reach my desired destination.
But thanks to the Women in News programme for awakening me from slumber by introducing me and other participants to Career Roadmapping. One of its robust activities is to equip media women with strategies, skills and confidence to excel in their careers.
To me, Career Roadmapping has been a process of introspection, reflection, planning and revelations. It has helped me realise that career success is no accident but a product of consistent planning and hard work. It is said that ‘failing to plan is planning to fail’. I have learnt through Career Roadmapping that failing to plan your career is indeed planning to fail. Living in a dynamic and competitive world, it is inevitable that you keep yourself abreast of unique skills and knowledge to give you an edge over others.
A Career Roadmap is therefore a very critical tool in achieving career success. It helps you outline your course of action, stay on track, overcome barriers and celebrate your successes. With a Career Roadmap you can identify what is needed to increase your personal expertise in a particular work-related area.
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Read More: The power of career road mapping: Emelda’s perspective
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Coaching
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Written by Caroline Phiti-Lubwika
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Thursday, 03 March 2011 |
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 There is an African dictum that states, “It takes the whole village to raise a child”. My interaction with the WIN programme reminded me, as an African, from where I have come and to focus where I’m going.
Why the dictum and what is its significance?
Through our busy times and schedules, we seem to have lost what our fore parents did to give directions for a child to grow in an acceptable manner. The WIN Programme is based upon mentoring and coaching, among other things, which seem to have fallen out of custom as Africans growing in modernity. If ever mentoring to bring up a child is happening, then it is at a small level, usually a home setting, between mother, father and children. Where is the whole village in all this? Our children manoeuvre and meander along the path of career development without much direction, directed by different factors such as money, status and many more rather than interest most of the times.
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Wednesday, 13 October 2010 |
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Possibly the most impactful and pivitol aspect of WAN-IFRA’s Women In News (WIN) programme is career coaching. In order to assist participants from Botswana, Namibia an Zambia in developing their career roadmaps – detailed five-year plans for professional growth within the media industry – two international career coaches have been actively involved since WIN’s July launch; engaging WIN women regularly in person and over the phone.
The professional backgrounds of WIN’s coaches is equally as varied as the participants, who hail from a range of departments within the media industries of their respective countries. On one hand there is Beth Oakes, a Canadian executive advisor and founder of The Oakes Group; and on the other is Suzanne Moll, a Danish media veteran with a career spanning radio, television and newspapers.
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