“Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.”
~Arnold H. Glasow
Step Into It!
What motivates you? What cause or passion ignites that fire within? Can you integrate these things into your work? Think of the activities currently in your work life that empower you and figure out how to do more of them. Set yourself on fire and head toward success!
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Not Just any Job, the RIGHT Job!
Most job seekers jump right to updating their resume as their first step in the search process. Most employees and entrepreneurs get engrossed in their day-to-day activities and have time for little else. There’s an important piece of your professional life that needs to be performed regularly in order to ensure that your work will keep you satisfied and successful for the long term: Take time to assess your current career path or your potential new job, and its match to what makes you happy.
For Job Seekers: Jumping into the first opportunity that comes along without evaluating your own strengths, preferences, wants and needs can lead to discontent and disillusionment at work. Take control of your search, own some power in the job search process and find a position that excites you, uses your best attributes, and provides you with meaning and satisfaction. Even if you feel that you must accept the next offer, you can ensure that at least you’ll be a few steps closer to your ideal job by self assessing.
For Employees and Entrepreneurs: It’s so easy to get on that treadmill day after day and not take time to step back to see the big picture of your work life. Take a long break or a personal retreat afternoon and evaluate where you are professionally and where you’re heading. Make sure you’re getting your needs met – gratification, acknowledgement, support, positive challenge, and rewards. Make some adjustments where needed and put yourself on the track of a meaningful career.
Get out pen and paper and answer these questions:
What work-related activities are you naturally good at doing?
What tasks have you been recognized for by co-workers and supervisors?
What types of things do you learn quickly?
What are some of your greatest career accomplishments?
List your favorite aspects of your last job which you’d like to experience again.
Define your hard and soft skills; prioritize them in order of preference.
What adjectives and phrases best describe you? How would your colleagues describe you?
What were outcomes of any formal career assessments you’ve taken?
What did you want to be when you were in school?
What interests and hobbies do you have now?
List your work-related values – those things that matter most to you on the job.
What are your personal requirements around factors such as salary, benefits, commute time, size of company, work hours, management style, company culture, and dress code?
Write your answers down. There’s something very powerful about getting an idea out of your head and onto paper. This tangible document, like a Job Search Journal, creates a road map and plan for creating the kind of work life you desire. Take time to get to the bottom of these questions and see what patterns emerge. Your answers are all keys to your strengths, passions, times and places where you are happiest. There is where your work should be centered.
For even more insight, take a formal assessment, such as the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, and add the results to your own self-discoveries for more clarity about your right and perfect work.
Self assessment provides you with information easily overlooked or forgotten once we get into our daily routines. Reminding yourself of when you are at your best and performing at your highest will boost your confidence and focus your job search or job performance. Spend some time on the most important person in your life – YOU – and make sure you’re in not just any job, but the RIGHT job!
For Job Seekers: Jumping into the first opportunity that comes along without evaluating your own strengths, preferences, wants and needs can lead to discontent and disillusionment at work. Take control of your search, own some power in the job search process and find a position that excites you, uses your best attributes, and provides you with meaning and satisfaction. Even if you feel that you must accept the next offer, you can ensure that at least you’ll be a few steps closer to your ideal job by self assessing.
For Employees and Entrepreneurs: It’s so easy to get on that treadmill day after day and not take time to step back to see the big picture of your work life. Take a long break or a personal retreat afternoon and evaluate where you are professionally and where you’re heading. Make sure you’re getting your needs met – gratification, acknowledgement, support, positive challenge, and rewards. Make some adjustments where needed and put yourself on the track of a meaningful career.
Get out pen and paper and answer these questions:
What work-related activities are you naturally good at doing?
What tasks have you been recognized for by co-workers and supervisors?
What types of things do you learn quickly?
What are some of your greatest career accomplishments?
List your favorite aspects of your last job which you’d like to experience again.
Define your hard and soft skills; prioritize them in order of preference.
What adjectives and phrases best describe you? How would your colleagues describe you?
What were outcomes of any formal career assessments you’ve taken?
What did you want to be when you were in school?
What interests and hobbies do you have now?
List your work-related values – those things that matter most to you on the job.
What are your personal requirements around factors such as salary, benefits, commute time, size of company, work hours, management style, company culture, and dress code?
Write your answers down. There’s something very powerful about getting an idea out of your head and onto paper. This tangible document, like a Job Search Journal, creates a road map and plan for creating the kind of work life you desire. Take time to get to the bottom of these questions and see what patterns emerge. Your answers are all keys to your strengths, passions, times and places where you are happiest. There is where your work should be centered.
For even more insight, take a formal assessment, such as the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, and add the results to your own self-discoveries for more clarity about your right and perfect work.
Self assessment provides you with information easily overlooked or forgotten once we get into our daily routines. Reminding yourself of when you are at your best and performing at your highest will boost your confidence and focus your job search or job performance. Spend some time on the most important person in your life – YOU – and make sure you’re in not just any job, but the RIGHT job!
Monday, April 12, 2010
Weekly Workplace Wisdom, April 12
"Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new."
--Og Mandino, Author
Step Into It!
Set out to learn something new this week. Find out about training classes to improve your skills, ask someone in the know to explain those mysterious technology features on your phone, read a biography of an interesting person in history. Learning is easy, fun, good for your health and career, and causes you to grow in so many ways. Never stop learning!
--Og Mandino, Author
Step Into It!
Set out to learn something new this week. Find out about training classes to improve your skills, ask someone in the know to explain those mysterious technology features on your phone, read a biography of an interesting person in history. Learning is easy, fun, good for your health and career, and causes you to grow in so many ways. Never stop learning!
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