Proactively Manage Your Career

It is a real shame when staff members approach me asking if they are going to get fired. They ask someone they trust out of fear that their feelings of being fired are true when, in fact, it is often that leadership has not communicated much of anything.

When leaders stop communicating, it is like the latest catch phrase, “Quiet Quitting” which has been around for years just termed as ‘disengagement.’ As employees return to their in-person work lives, many are physically there but not fully present or engaged.

I encourage everyone to proactively manage their own career.

How?

Below are seven things both leaders and staff members can start doing now to improve the management of their career, connection, communication, and engagement.

1.   Ask for one-on-one meetings.

2.   Share the responsibility of developing the agenda of meetings with everyone responsible for being there.

3.   Ask how you are doing? Both directions, staff to leader and leader to staff, with this one for sure.

4.   Ask what you can improve? Seek feedback, listen, implement suggestions, and you will GROW!

5.   Ask what you did well?

6.   ASK and you will get answers. It is when we sit back and wait for others to communicate change to us is when we fail to manage our own career.

7.   Take ownership. If you need coaching or an accountability partner, hire someone to hold you to your goals, get you over the hump, help you make major decisions, negotiate a pay raise or salary on a new job. You do not have to know everything about everything, hire someone who has the experience you need.

You have this and so much more!

Cheers!

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