When working with a Career Coach it is imperative to remember you are embarking on a partnership! Below is a "To-do List" to help make your experience worth your while!:
1. Be honest with your counselor or coach. Admit your weaknesses; share your dreams and build them into your plan.
2. Be specific about your goals. Don’t waste time on generalities.
3. Be ready. Study the career plan, review the deadlines, and fill in the gaps.
4. Be proactive. It’s up to you to follow through with your plan.
5. Be thick-skinned. If a counselor challenges you, don’t be defensive. You’re paying for an objective point of view.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Career Transitioning and Meditation - What do they have to do with each other?
I am working closely with Dr. Stephen Payne who is an established Leadership Coach. He came up with the below ideas (I have tweaked them a bit to fit my needs) that I think are brilliant when embarking on a new venture. The key is always be open and willing to suggestions!
1. Move on to something better. Expect to make where you are going a far better situation than the place you’re leaving. Get your mind really clear on this point.
2. Be grateful to your former employers. Whatever your exit reason, frame your parting message to your bosses and colleagues with deep gratitude.
3. Leave a roadmap behind. Before your final exit, get your current job affairs fully in order and communicate the truth of what will be left undone. Do what you can to enhance the likelihood of success for those who pick up projects you leave uncompleted.
4. Spend plenty of time in meditation and reflection. Managing your spirit through a transition is more important than managing your network. It is important to take time out of your day to listen to what the next right action is to take.
5. Get Focused. Create a strong Purpose Statement (PS)—a concise expression of what you want from your working life—and then meditate on it.
6. Identify those who will help you. Create a list—hopefully a long list—of people you trust. Then take your PS and share it—face to face wherever possible—with each of them. Listen to them carefully. There’s a good chance your next boss is known to one of them.
7. Always give something back. Whenever you meet with people to share your PS always give a gift (not necessarily a present—could be an idea, a contact, or simply praying with them) and always follow up afterward with a message of gratitude.
8. Don’t necessarily take the first thing that comes along. Be careful of opportunities that emerge too quickly, there’s often a good reason they’re not filled. Don’t assume that, just because you’re hungry, the first morsel is the whole meal.
9. Be honest and respectful. Tell the truth as well as you understand it and show good manners in all your job search activities.
10. Fill your pipeline with many job opportunities. It may appear that your options are desperately limited but what seems to be be case is not necessarily what is the case. Always be willing to try something different - you never know where it may take you.
Finally, meditate the “Career Transition” chant every day:
Today, I surrender my working life to a greater power. By your grace, help me reveal more of your amazing power and love as I serve you through my next job. Lead me on your abundant pathways to serve the highest and greatest good of the organizations and people you bring into my life.
Do this for 30 days and let me know how it goes!
1. Move on to something better. Expect to make where you are going a far better situation than the place you’re leaving. Get your mind really clear on this point.
2. Be grateful to your former employers. Whatever your exit reason, frame your parting message to your bosses and colleagues with deep gratitude.
3. Leave a roadmap behind. Before your final exit, get your current job affairs fully in order and communicate the truth of what will be left undone. Do what you can to enhance the likelihood of success for those who pick up projects you leave uncompleted.
4. Spend plenty of time in meditation and reflection. Managing your spirit through a transition is more important than managing your network. It is important to take time out of your day to listen to what the next right action is to take.
5. Get Focused. Create a strong Purpose Statement (PS)—a concise expression of what you want from your working life—and then meditate on it.
6. Identify those who will help you. Create a list—hopefully a long list—of people you trust. Then take your PS and share it—face to face wherever possible—with each of them. Listen to them carefully. There’s a good chance your next boss is known to one of them.
7. Always give something back. Whenever you meet with people to share your PS always give a gift (not necessarily a present—could be an idea, a contact, or simply praying with them) and always follow up afterward with a message of gratitude.
8. Don’t necessarily take the first thing that comes along. Be careful of opportunities that emerge too quickly, there’s often a good reason they’re not filled. Don’t assume that, just because you’re hungry, the first morsel is the whole meal.
9. Be honest and respectful. Tell the truth as well as you understand it and show good manners in all your job search activities.
10. Fill your pipeline with many job opportunities. It may appear that your options are desperately limited but what seems to be be case is not necessarily what is the case. Always be willing to try something different - you never know where it may take you.
Finally, meditate the “Career Transition” chant every day:
Today, I surrender my working life to a greater power. By your grace, help me reveal more of your amazing power and love as I serve you through my next job. Lead me on your abundant pathways to serve the highest and greatest good of the organizations and people you bring into my life.
Do this for 30 days and let me know how it goes!
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