Employment Tips
Many are always asking me what are the simple tips to creating career satisfaction and life fulfillment? My experience tells me there are five important factors necessary to creating these realities.
1. TIME: Determining your career vision and plan is not a “fast food” endeavor. In this era of speed, this is one area that requires your time and attention. I have had some people work intensively for several days and reach their vision and plan.
I have had some spread the process out over several weeks and spend several hours each week in pursuit of this vision and plan. Either way, it takes time. The first step is to give yourself permission and patience to take the time you need to create a vision and plan based on wisdom, not speed.
2. AWARENESS: The amount of time you need is directly related to how aware you are of your wisdom. If you have not taken much time to listen to yourself. OR, if you are like most of us and have not had a clue what to listen to, you will need more time. In the process of awareness comes the need to be open to ourselves about what we need, want, know and desire.
3. ARTICULATION: From the awareness comes the next step which is to articulate our awareness. About what, you say? We need to understand and articulate what we know in the following areas:
-Career Development: What we know from our past experience that leads us to better choices now.
-Abilities: What comes natural and easy to us. The hardwiring of how we operate.
-Skills: What we have learned. The software we have added to our knowledge base.
-Interests: The things that bring us passion and enjoyment
-Personal Style: Our style, personality, temperament and what our environment needs to honor this style.
-Beliefs: What beliefs we hold about success, career, achieving life fulfillment, etc. Often these come from our family of origin.
-Values: Those guiding forces that are key to our life decisions.
-Goals: What do we want to achieve?
It is much like building a stir-fry. We need to take the time to chop the ingredients before we can begin to create the final product.
4. INTEGRATION: Pulling together the ingredients from above into a vision and a plan to move forward. This “product” comes from YOU. There is not one expert in the world who can tell you what this needs to be. That is why we need the time and patience to listen to ourselves. The result is a powerful, energizing and unique creation that will move you forward to further career satisfaction and life fulfillment.
5. EXPERIENCE: No matter how wise we are, evaluated experience is a great teacher. Life continues to move and we continue to integrate new experience and knowledge into our wisdom. Unless we EVALUATE this new data and allow it to move our decisions and choices, the creation we developed in step 4 soon becomes stagnate. Taking the time to evaluate, make new choices and transform our future focus, keeps the vision and plan powerful, energizing and unique.
Cheryl Leitschuh, Ed.D. is a coach and consultant creating environments of success for individuals, teams and organizatons.
Practice services include:
*Career Development assessment, retreats and coaching.
*Professional Practice Development coaching and assessment.
*Key leader development and assessment.
*Executive Coaching.
*Team Coaching.
*Performance Improvement Coaching and Assessment
*Speaking and training on key aspects of workplace development.
*Succession Planning.
