Putting the Spark Back Into Your Career: Part 2

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If your career seems in a slump, it’s probably time to change your spark plugs.

Below is Part 2 of a 2-Part article designed to help IT and database professionals stay on top of their game in an ever-changing trade.  Part 1 describes the steps in general career perspectives.  Please review Part 1 before continuing.
Part 2 takes those same concepts and implements them in a specific IT scenario.  For more examples that fit your specific work environment, please feel free to contact LauraRose@RoseCoaching.info

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When your career is stalling and your performance is losing power, it’s time to change your spark plugs.  The ceramic inserts in your career spark plugs have worn out and are no longer allowing that energy to arc across the gap between “who you currently are” and “who you want to be”.

Changing your CAReer Spark Plugs:

  1. Revisit your overall Career Goals and Vision plan
  1. Evaluate your current activities
  1. If your activity does not support you career goals, run the 4D diagnostics (Delete, Delay, Diminish, and Delegate). (*1)
  1. Often times we feel that a certain task is our role and responsibility, even though it doesn’t fit our current career path.  If you feel that the task is mandatory (demanded by upper management and job related), twist your thinking and participation level such that it does match your career goals.

(*1)  Feel free to contact LauraRose@RoseCoaching.info for more information on the 4D process for managing your affluent task lists.

There are many ways to accomplish this.  We will now illustrate how the IT Professional can implement the above steps. Continue reading

Assuring you a prosperous 2012

Many people will be wishing you a “Happy New Year”. You deserve more that just a wish. I want to assure you a happy new year. Take the following 4 steps to assure yourself an exciting and prosperous 2012.

The 11 Most Influentials in 2011
designed to assure a prosperous 2012

As the year comes to a close, please take time to reflect on the people, places, and events that have made you who you are today. This would include both affirmative and challenging entities; for those items that most frustrated us in 2011 helped us clarify what we actually prefer. Use those most trying people or periods to create your 2012 goals.

4 Steps to a prosperous 2012:

  1. Create a list of the top 11 most influential people, places or things in your 2011 (TO YOU).
  2. Consider people, books, movies, event, and anything that made you think or expand.
  3. Write them (even if it’s an inanimate object) a thank you note describing how you changed because of your interaction with them.
  4. For those letters you will be sending out, include
    a. your 2012 plans and goals (This allows them to keep their eyes out for those opportunities.)
    b. a request or plan to ‘kick’ your interaction with them to the next level.

Let me know how you feel when you have completed this assignment.

If you would like see some letter templates, please let me know.

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