Description

Written by international writer, David Parmenter. This working guide will transform the lives of you and your team through the adoption of practices your peers have used successfully who come from top performing teams around the world.

Contents

• Overview
• Planning your future
• Knowing which road, you are travelling on
• Neuro linguistic programming
• Treasure mapping – a way to use NLP to further your career, your life and your relationships
• The winner’s bible
• The keys bases to cover in your career
• Maximise your potential in your current organisation
• Understand the degree of fit or misfit
• Dress for your next work promotion
• Create a band of brothers and sisters
• Recruiting the right people all the time
• Attend leadership and management training
• Be an advanced user of all the organisation’s important technology
• Maximise project responsibilities
• Take work on that links you to the decision makers
• Getting prepared for the decision
• Have a cluster of mentors
• Having a safe-haven – a second passion
• Develop good nutrition habits so you do not run out of fuel
• Self-improvement
• Advanced self-awareness
• Self-regulation and anger management
• Hostmanship
• Maintain your learning agility
• Quarterly career review with a mentor
• Becoming slightly famous
• Choosing the right job offer
• Do your homework
• Degree of values fit
• The key people to talk to
• If it looks too good to be true it probably is
• Other working guides
• Writer’s biography

 

Quiz

Career Experience To Date

Before we go any further on this topic you need to know where you are going, otherwise “Any road will take you there.” Let us find out a bit about ourselves. Answer these questions.

Have you worked for a blue-chip company?	□ Yes	□ No
Have you worked for a great manager?	□ Yes	□ No
Have your worked under an inspirational CEO?	□ Yes	□ No
Have your worked on some large change projects?	□ Yes	□ No
Have you managed a large team?	□ Yes	□ No

If you can answer yes to all these questions decision making is going to be far easier.  By expanding your experiences, you will be in a better position to make decisions.

Long Range Career Plan

You now need to consider your long-term career objectives

Do I see my long-range goal as working in a large organisation?	□ Yes	□ No
Do I want to be running my own company?	□ Yes	□ No
Do you know the lifestyle you want to achieve?	□ Yes	□ No
Are you willing to sacrifice a work life balance for your future career?	□ Yes	□ No
Have you a vision of what your end goal is for your career?	□ Yes	□ No
Do you yearn to work in another country?	□ Yes	□ No

The answers will now begin to shape a future which may look very different to what it is now.

The fit with your current organisation

We should now look at the fit you have with your current organisation.

Current Job
1. Are you excited when you look at the opportunities ahead in your job?	□ Yes	□ No
2. Are there other roles, opportunities, projects you could work on at your current job that are interesting?	□ Yes	□ No
3. Do you enjoy working with your current staff and colleagues?	□ Yes	□ No
4. Does this job make the best use of your skills?	□ Yes	□ No
5. Are there still opportunities to implement better practices into the finance team?	□ Yes	□ No
Current Manager
6. Do you enjoy working with your manager?	□ Yes	□ No
7. Are you still learning from your manager?	□ Yes	□ No
8. Is your manager well-respected and liked in the organisation?	□ Yes	□ No
9. Has your manager had an explementary career to date?	□ Yes	□ No
10. Is your manager in the inner circle with the CEO?	□ Yes	□ No
Current Organisation
11. Can you fulfil your next three-year career goals within your current organisation?	□ Yes	□ No
12. Are there other managers in the organisation you would enjoy working with?	□ Yes	□ No
13. Are you proud to be a member of your organisation?	□ Yes	□ No
14. Is your current rate of pay in the top quartile for your position and experience?	□ Yes	□ No
15. Are you given good training and development opportunities?	□ Yes	□ No

 

Number of Ticks	Advice to You
10 or more	Really stupid to leave, the grass is not greener on the other side of the fence.
7-9	Only move on if the organisation or manager is changing for the worse.
4-6	Start looking for a new position elsewhere, but only leave when you have another job lined up.
<4	You should have left ages ago.