Career Transformation: If It Ain"t Broke - Break It!
You have a traditional career - from entry professional to Manager to Director and so on.
Right now, you are sitting pretty:
With the promotions, you received a small bump and you have managed a staff for the last four years.
Your career, while a little sluggish, is moving ahead.
So why are you feeling unsatisfied? Why are you not as enthusiastic as you were twelve years ago when you started your professional career? Why are you thinking that you will never achieve the life of career fulfillment you first envisioned? Why have you been thinking about graduate school - but you don't have the time, money or motivation to follow-through? If this is you, than you are in the unenviable time in your career that is often called the building years - but in today's economic reality, you aren't 'building' toward a meaningful or lucrative career future.
I call this stage of your career - the "If It Ain't Broke - Break It" stage.
Whether you are 28, 35, 42 or 50, this is the time when fifteen years into the future, you will look back and regret not taking the leap now to develop and implement a Five-Year Career Transformation Plan.
To make it happen: Step 1 - Know What You Want.
Take free online assessments, discover your hidden desires, categorize your strengths, shadow mentors and identify your best career destiny! Step 2 - Brand Yourself.
Take the time to write your brand description and live it.
Ask people who know you and your value proposition well, to comment on your brand.
You might hear some surprising information about how others view you.
Step 3 - Write a Five-Year Career Transformation Plan.
Identify the short- and long-term action steps you need to take to get there.
Step 4 - Take Action.
Be creative in developing a strategy to achieve your goals.
Step 5 - Assess Your Progress.
Periodically review and reevaluate.
Celebrate victories.
Following this formula will help you transform your career.
Right now, you are sitting pretty:
- So what if you don't feel challenged and one of your peers was just promoted?
- So what if you have tightened your belt to the point that you can't tighten it anymore?
- So what if your 401K is no longer under water but is not performing up to expectation?
- So what if the economic news is grim and the national newscasters are predicting a second (double dip) recession?
With the promotions, you received a small bump and you have managed a staff for the last four years.
Your career, while a little sluggish, is moving ahead.
So why are you feeling unsatisfied? Why are you not as enthusiastic as you were twelve years ago when you started your professional career? Why are you thinking that you will never achieve the life of career fulfillment you first envisioned? Why have you been thinking about graduate school - but you don't have the time, money or motivation to follow-through? If this is you, than you are in the unenviable time in your career that is often called the building years - but in today's economic reality, you aren't 'building' toward a meaningful or lucrative career future.
I call this stage of your career - the "If It Ain't Broke - Break It" stage.
Whether you are 28, 35, 42 or 50, this is the time when fifteen years into the future, you will look back and regret not taking the leap now to develop and implement a Five-Year Career Transformation Plan.
To make it happen: Step 1 - Know What You Want.
Take free online assessments, discover your hidden desires, categorize your strengths, shadow mentors and identify your best career destiny! Step 2 - Brand Yourself.
Take the time to write your brand description and live it.
Ask people who know you and your value proposition well, to comment on your brand.
You might hear some surprising information about how others view you.
Step 3 - Write a Five-Year Career Transformation Plan.
Identify the short- and long-term action steps you need to take to get there.
Step 4 - Take Action.
Be creative in developing a strategy to achieve your goals.
Step 5 - Assess Your Progress.
Periodically review and reevaluate.
Celebrate victories.
Following this formula will help you transform your career.
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