Realigning Your Career Plans
SUMMARY
Do you sometimes feel like your career has gone way off track? Well, stick with me because this week I'm going to help you reinvigorate those feelings that you had when you set out to get where you wanted to go and then show you how to put a plan together so that you can get there.
If you have no plan, you won't know where you're going.
Let's go through a process: reflect on where you've been, refocus on why you're doing what you're doing, then relaunch with a new plan.
Use the R4 Method: Results, Reality, Roadblocks, Resources.
TRANSCRIPT
Do you sometimes feel like your career has gone way off track? Well, stick with me because this week I'm going to help you reinvigorate those feelings that you had when you set out to get where you wanted to go.
Hi, this is Grant Herbert, Leadership and Sustainable Performance Coach, and today I want to continue our conversation around the competency of intention by helping you to realign your career plans.
Let's go through a process to prepare for this plan.
Reflect on where you've been over the last year — what went well and what didn't. You're just collecting some information and asking, "What worked well and what did I learn from that?"
The second thing to do then is to refocus on why you're doing what you're doing. Refocus on your overall vision and mission for your life.
Once you've reflected and refocused, the next thing you need to do is relaunch with a new plan to bring things back on track.
Now that you've done this, you need a new plan. To do that, you can use my R4 Method.
The first thing you need to do is look at where you want to go and where you want to be 12 months from now. I call these the RESULTS.
The next thing you want to do is come back to today and go, "Where am I now? What's my REALITY?"
Now that you know your starting point and where you're going, the next thing to look at is the ROADBLOCKS. What are the things you're doing or not doing that are stopping you from going from where you are now to where you want to go?
The fourth thing is to look at what RESOURCES you need to add so that you can overcome those roadblocks and finally get from where you are now to where you want to go.
Well, that's it from me on this topic of intention. Join me again next week as we step into the area of professional leadership. I'll see you then.
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