Influencing Your Career
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May 06, 2015
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Influencing Your Career
Career Goals
Career Goals
Persuade peers and managers to give feedback.
Get your boss to agree to your attending a new meeting to expand your experience.
Career Goals
Get your boss to agree to a career development discussion.
Career Goals
Establish informal mentors to build future relationships.
Career Goals
Stage One
Understand the three steps of career development.
Stage Two
Put together the needed influence strategies.
Career Development
• Understand yourself
Career Development
• Understand yourself
• Understand your options
Career Development
• Understand yourself
• Understand your options
• Understand your next steps
Career Development
Have a clear understanding of who you are and what you bring to an organization.
Career Development
Create an accurate picture of yourself.
Understand Yourself
Identify key skills you use now and have used in the past.
Understand Yourself
Use open-ended questions and then, focused questions to get specific feedback.
Understand Yourself
Interests and values define who you are.
Understand Yourself
Ask yourself, “What do I want to learn?”
Understand Yourself
Ask yourself, “What has to happen to prepare for this learning?”
Understand Yourself
Ask yourself, “What values are driving my choices?”
Understand Yourself
Ask yourself, “What are my strengths and weaknesses?”
Understand Yourself
Check how you see yourself with how others see you.
Understand Yourself
Your reputation often determines whether or not you’re chosen to work on interesting projects.
Understand Yourself
Work with change to help achieve personal goals.
Understand Your Options
Look into the future, see what’s coming, be ready for changes, and harness the potential to help you reach your goals.
Understand Your Options
Create multiple career goals.
Understand Your Options
Network within your organization and the industry you work in.
Understand Your Options
Ask yourself, “What changes are happening in my industry, organization, work team and profession?”
Understand Your Options
Ask yourself, “What are my options?”
Understand Your Options
Ask yourself, “What are my next steps?”
Understand Your Options
Ask yourself, “What type of moves can I make?”
Understand Your Options
Ask yourself, “How will I keep growing in place?”
Understand Your Options
Ask yourself, “How will I network?”
Understand Your Options
Ask yourself, “Who are the people in the industry I would like to meet and speak with?”
Understand Your Options
Ask yourself, “Who are the people in my organization I would like to learn from?”
Understand Your Options
Make a plan with each step, having some amount of measurability.
Understand Your Next Steps
Have a definite time frame for each step of your plan.
Understand Your Next Steps
Have a development conversation with your supervisor or mentor.
Understand Your Next Steps
Gathering support for your plan is a key link to achieving your goals.
Understand Your Next Steps
Write your goals out clearly.
Understand Your Next Steps
Think about what success looks like; make it measurable.
Understand Your Next Steps
Identify what resources are available in your organization to help you.
Understand Your Next Steps
Think about who you will want to influence about your plan.
Understand Your Next Steps
Influence Strategies
Put together the needed influence strategies to make your development plan a reality.
Influence Strategies
Use assertive behaviors when you need to take a more direct approach.
Influence Strategies
Offer incentives to make it easier for the other person to do what you are asking.
Influence Strategies
Lay out specific incentives.
Influence Strategies
Decide about what you want to influence.
Development Plans
Be specific and exact.
Development Plans
Decide whom you want to influence.
Development Plans
Decide what behaviors you should use.
Development Plans
Have a specific goal around possible career movements or learning opportunities.
Development Plans
Determine how you will measure success, and what will have to happen.
Development Plans
Determine the resources that can help you.
Development Plans
Determine who you will talk to.
Development Plans
Determine what action you’ll take, and by when.
Development Plans
You are the main influencer of your career.
Development Plans
Influencing Your Career
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