Your ideas are the currency of your career. You have revealed, discovered, and documented many great ideas that are the business of you – Your CareerTruth. As the CEO of your career – your business – it is time to share your Purpose and Plan Journey work with others to get feedback. Own or Be Owned. In the case of your career being a business, it’s your personal Innovation Plan that needs market research.
If you have a spouse, partner, or very close friend, take them through your Purpose, your Vision of success, your Personal & Professional Prioritized Goals and the action plans you have to achieve your goals. Ask them for feedback and what else you should consider as you update your goals and actions in the future.
Schedule a meeting with a trusted leader or manager at work. Share with them your Purpose statement, your Personal Prioritized goals related to work and your Professional Prioritized Goals to align with your company’s development plan for you. Ask them for feedback on areas they think you should work on to achieve your full potential. You should use this conversation as a way to open new development opportunities and try to align your future to the potential for you at this company. This will also allow you to have critical conversations about your expectations of success working at this company and seek their commitment. Having open and proactive discussions with your leadership is a major enabler to happiness and success at work. This not only can build trust and uncover unsaid issues but can create a new courage to be your best and eradicate fear.
Whenever you are at a seminar, networking event, or are meeting someone for coffee, take the opportunity to share your purpose statement, what you are working on – your Prioritized Goals, and maybe even your work you are doing in CareerTruth. Be bold. Test out some ideas you think you may want to try in a future action plan to meet a goal. Share how you are owning your career and that you have a purpose and ongoing plan to fulfill your purpose. People will not only be impressed, but very curious. The phrases “not much”, ”Fine”, or “same ole’ same ole” as answers to the standard question of ‘How are things going?’ Will seem stupid. When you are asked how things are going, blow their mind! Set a new standard for networking well.
This is the beginning of your new “Open Networking” strategy which includes how to construct the exciting “Story of You” and always have a “Big Idea” you are working as your number one networking tool. This is the Innovation of You on steroids. Because you are free to be your best and you want to leave a meaningful legacy, your confidence to discover new levels of growth will flourish in the open market unrestrained by the fears or concerns driven from not owning your career.
As for continuous improvement, sharing your in CareerTruth is part of your continuous development, personal innovation, and growth.