Sg2009wc:reinvent

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Title: Re-Inventing your Career

Session: 8-J Bay Area Jan 2009

Convener: Dee McCrorey, Risktaking for Success LLC [1]

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Step 1: Responsible Risktaking (tm) Coloring outside the lines is your foundation; ironically, it grounds you in confidence.

• Learn to recognize personal cues & clues for handling situations outside your comfort zone
• Leverage your Risktaking Style™ for different organizational environments
• Walk your accountability talk – upstream & downstream – to differentiate yourself

Step 2: Expertise Malcolm Gladwell (author of Tipping Point, Outlier) and scientists define expertise as 7+ years - mastery of a skill = 10k hours.

• Identify your portable assets & transferable skills
• Refresh your brand while straddling the “old” you with the soon-to-be reinvented you
• Incorporate social media as part of your career reinvention strategy

Step 3: Personal Inflection Curve (tm) Formal definition of Inflexion Point: Point on a curve at which the curvature changes sign...from being concave upwards to being concave downwards. (Less formal definition: Personal or organizational shift(s) caused by external events with the power to transform.

• Your Personal Inflection Curve is core to the reinvention process on an ongoing basis.
• Everyone has their own "rhythm of change - understanding your P.I.C. and internalizing the process keeps you in front of the curve
• Careerpreneurship is managing your career like a business (the new entrepreneur model)
• Leadership & the new delegation model - help your staff manage their careers as a business
• Reinventing your career isn't always about leaving - you can broaden your reach and still stay with the same company

Step 4: Now or Later

• What needs to happen now to close the most critical gaps
• How to get immediate help – resource for the gaps
• What can be pushed out (fake it until you make it!)
• Develop a 30-60-90 day plan for closing the gaps
• What is your timeline for completing

Step 5: Values Your core values are not negotiable and are not "reinvented" - values are part of your belief system & principles (your philosophy).

• What core values will become part of this reinvention?
• Employer's values - nice to have vs. must have
• Innovate your way to success by the company you keep

Step 6: Emotions

• Managing your emotions & emotional “hot buttons”
• Navigating “charged" conversations
• What emotions need to be better managed for your next reinvention?
• Negotiating conflict with others

Step 7: Negotiations

• Negotiable vs. non-negotiable boundaries
• Play to your strengths –your Natural Negotiating Style™
• Enhance your reinvention – “flex” your communication muscle

Step 8: Transition

• Successful transition into a new environment
• Critical 2 x 4 actions

  - What you need to do during your first 2 weeks
  - What must happen during the next four weeks