Fast Forward Your Career 1 Fast Forward Your Career by Richard E. Hinkie www.successfulcareerdecisions.com Your Career Planning Tool Kit This Tool Kit comes to you compliments of Energetic Women, a service of Midwest ENERGY Association and the author. You have permission to make additional copies. Ever wondered why some people get promoted faster than others? Would you like to know their secrets? Career success starts with a career plan! (90% of employees never make one) Use this Tool Kit to create your unique career plan to build your brand, get on the “highly promotable” list, and be selected for the job you want next.
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Your Career Planning Tool Kit
This Tool Kit comes to you compliments of Energetic Women, a service of Midwest ENERGY Association and the author. You have permission to make additional copies. This Career Planning Toolkit is based upon Fast Forward Your Career by Richard E. Hinkie. The career success principles in the book were developed from interviews with over 60 senior
Ever wondered why some people get promoted faster than others? Would you like to know their secrets?
Career success starts with a career plan!
(90% of employees never make one)
Use this Tool Kit to create your unique career plan to build your brand, get on the “highly promotable” list,
and be selected for the job you want next.
Use the planning tools and the companion book to make a greater impact within your organization and be ready to Fast Forward Your Career!
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executives from companies like Apple, T-Mobile, Duke Energy, and other great organizations in retail, manufacturing, energy, contracting and customer service. The book is available from on line book stores or at www.successfulcareerdecisions.com. The Career Planning Toolkit is designed just for you to provide the extra boost you need to actually use the 7 career success principles to make your career more satisfying. Your career will span many decades; why not take charge of your career starting now? Be part of the elite 10% that have created their own career plan.
Career Plan Step 1: Choose Your Target Job Even if you think you know for sure what job or position you want next. Take a minute or two and work through the following exercise. Many executives believe that employees limit themselves when they think about their future by considering only jobs or positions within the department or division for which they currently work. There may be other opportunities for you. So let this planning tool help you think through all your options before you decide on your target job.
1. What is the next traditional or specialist career progression that is likely ahead for you?
(This is the usual career path most people think of. If you are a staff accountant today,
for example, your next position might be accounting supervisor. In this career track,
your career path is focused on jobs within the current department or function you are
presently in.)
Based on the way your department, company, or industry is organized today, what career
positions (current job titles) are there ahead for you (look at the folks doing those higher
level jobs today in order to help you think this through)? These are the typical future jobs
that you could be promoted into in the next five years, 10 years, or even 20 years.
There are plusses and minuses to growing your career within a “traditional or specialist”
career path. On the plus side is stability. You will likely continue to work with people you
know and who know you and the work you do. The down side is, typically, that someone
has to leave the company or retire in a position above you before you can move up. You can
become blocked. And at some point in your career, especially if you reach the top of your
department, your next promotion might be outside of your department. That promotion
will require you to have a broader knowledge of your company and industry.
Remember, at each higher level in the organization, you will need a broader knowledge of
the business. Chapter 8: Understand the Big Picture: Learn the Business to Maximize Your
Value begins on page 101 and covers Career Success Principle Number 4.
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List the most likely job or position titles you might be promoted in to if you stay in your
2. What are your other advancement options? Consider the nontraditional or generalist
career progressions that might be good for your career.
Many executives said they moved out of their original career areas, sometimes even
laterally, and, as a result, added more experience in other skill areas or departments. Over
time, a combination of their willingness to take on new challenges and the added
experience earned them significant promotions. The more potential career paths available
to you, the better. Moving around the organization will also help more senior management
leaders learn to know you and your work. If you use Career Success Principle Number 1:
Get Connected & Get Noticed, chapter 4, page 35, organizational leaders will become more
aware of who you are.
So think about all the possible paths forward for your career, not just the ones that may
seem the most obvious.
List some of the nontraditional titles/positions that might be open for you, or that you are
interested in? (Think of positions in other departments that might lateral or a level or two
above you.)
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OK. Decision Time. What job or position are you going to go after in this plan? ___________________________________ Your detailed plan will be based upon getting this position. Have fun!
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Career Planning Worksheet & Checklist
If you own Fast Forward Your Career, or your organization has made it available to you, you
have permission to make copies of this Career Planning Worksheet & Check List. Use it to make
a variety of potential career plans. Don’t be afraid to do some “what if” thinking. Make at least
one plan for the next logical promotion and another for something in a totally different area of
the organization that interests you.
1. What is the title of the position you most want to have, or be promoted to, next? (Recopy
What did you learn about yourself, and how might you want to change, in order to make an even more positive contribution in your career? 1. _____________________________________________ 2. ______________________________________________ 3. ______________________________________________
If you haven’t done this type of self-analysis, what are you going to do about it, if anything?
1. ______________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________
What part of your next promotion will be especially difficult for you? (Consider workload, stress, impact on family, further development requirements.)
What are your motivations for seeking this promotion? 1. _______________________________________________ 2. ______________________________________________ 3. ______________________________________________
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6. How much do you know about your organization and your industry? Anyone seeking a
promotion should learn more about his or her organization and the business and industry in
which it operates. The more you understand where the money comes from, what the products
are and who the stakeholders are, the better able you are to make a larger contribution. Check
off those tactics you have already used and underline the ones that you intend to use in the
future. (Success Principal 4: Understand the Big Picture, Chapter 8, page 101 has examples of
how other successful people met this challenge. Here are a few of their suggestions.)
Research your company and your industry online.
Have a conversation with leaders in other parts of the organization to learn what they do
and how what you do relates to their success.
Learn about your organization’s culture.
Attend seminars or seek formal education to learn knowledge or skills important to the
overall organization to broaden yourself.
Attend industry conferences or meetings.
7. Are you ready for the next level? Promotion opportunities won’t wait for you to get ready.
Success Principle Number 5: Be Ready: Develop Yourself & Perform As Though You Were
Already At the Next Level (chapter 9, page 113) can help you plan for what you need to do to
be ready for your next promotion opportunity.
What education, training, or experience do you need to become a stronger candidate for
Work Schedule: Do you need to adjust your work habits? How? ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________
Personal Issues: Do you need to improve you grammar, speaking style, terminology, office organization, posture, hygiene, or any other item that might not fit in well in a new, higher-level position? If so, what, specifically?
What, if any, relationship problems do you have at work, and what can you do about them?
1. ______________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________
Now that you have completed this Career Planning Worksheet & Checklist and considered
some of the action steps you identified, use the two-page Summary Career Success Action
Plan to make a specific plan to go after your next job or position.
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Summary Career Success Action Plan
Position Title Wanted: _________________________________ Goal Date: ______________
1. What actions do you need to take and when do you need to take them to be a viable
candidate? Use your Career Planning Check List as a guide—use these two pages as your
summary action plan.
A. Who do you need to talk to so that the right people know that you are interested and
qualified for the position?
___________________________________________
When are you going to do this? _________________
B. Is there anyone who might try to block your promotion?
Who? ______________________________________
What can you do about this, and when? ______________________________________
2. What actions do you need to take to make yourself more attractive for the position?
A. What additional skills, knowledge or formal education do you need? _____________________________________________________________________
How soon? ________________________________
B. What can you do to improve your “Star” quality?
__________________________________________
__________________________________________
C. Are there any other actions you need to take?
(Think of the other Career Success Principles and your check list.)
1. ________________________________________
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2. ________________________________________
3. _________________________________________
Tell somebody—your boss, HR, your mentor, your social network-- that this promotion is
important to you. Remember, no one gets ahead without help.
Use the book’s content to help you complete your Career Planning Worksheet & Checklist and your Career Success Action Plan. Use the tools over and over again as you move around the organization. You can use it whether you are seeking your first promotion or looking to be the next vice president. Only 10% of employees typically make a career plan, so be one of the smart ones and take charge of your future at work.
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