Leaders and aspiring leaders managing projects, programs, departments and companies work from a plan. They collaborate, and execute.
These steps also apply to creating and executing on a career strategy. A plan will speed up your trajectory and compensation.
Taking a quantum leap in your career, along with risks and creativity of trying something new can generate phenomenal results.
I see this all the time with the executives and aspiring leaders I
work with---
The gates open, they keep practicing what they used to avoid in the past and they make the transformation.
Setting Yourself Up for Something Bigger
When you're committed to making a transformation, sometimes you have to schedule time to step away and just think bigger. How will you manage all of the elements required for the change while everything in your career is still moving in your
work life? The change will affect...
Your Mindset
Your Communication
How you Connect
Difficult things take longer to develop and bring to fruition. But those same difficult things, once in the mainstream, usually
create pretty phenomenal outcomes. The transformation begins when you're open to trying new approaches because sometimes, the things you've done over and over again may not be working anymore.
A CAREER STRATEGY IS DEPENDENT ON BUILDING REAL
BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS
Are you trying to schedule time with peers and colleagues but your
messages and letters are not landing you time together?
From what I've seen, you may not be writing a message that compels the other
party to engage with you. Craft your letters with these tips in mind:
RULE #1: Write your letter with the goal of having a
conversation. Email exchanges fizzle. Make them a face-to-face or video.
RULE #2: Make your message about "them". Make your
meetings about the professionals you reach out to, not about the job you're seeking.
RULE #3: You are a leader. Communicate with other leaders as an
equal.
RULE #4: You're good at what you do, let them know how you can
be a resource.
RULE #5: Create an accountability system and reach out to many of the
right people. As you tune-up your letter, and with many outreaches, you'll begin filling your schedule with relationship building conversations.
