What you do today defines your tomorrow
We all see the catastrophic economical meltdown and expect a long winter ahead of us. Many people lost their jobs and many lost hope in rapid career growth in the near future. What should we do?
Companies are looking for a winning strategy to survive in this roller coaster business environment. They are revising their business plans and redefining processes.
This same strategy applies to all working professionals who run their careers as a business. They should re-evaluate and re-plan their careers, redefine current daily tasks to be more competitive and gain the ability to win when the market turns around.
What we do today defines what we become tomorrow. Transformation starts today and carries through each day whenever you decide to do things differently and more strategically.
Let's first understand who we are today. Log your activities for a whole week and classify your activities into the following categories:
Short term
1) Daily operational short term tasks
2) Temporary assignments
3) Tactical meetings
4) Routine jobs
Long term and strategic
1) Networking and mentoring
2) Learning new skills and building new strengths
3) Understand emerging technology and industries
4) Write white papers and summaries about your product and build your portfolio
5) Design and build your personal brand
6) Establish processes and automate your business operation
If you spend less than 20% of your time on long term and strategic activities, you must increase your investment in this category.
If you do spend more than 20% of your time on long term and strategic actives, but you haven't got your expected result, examine your goal and validate your strategy to reach such goals.
Log your time again one week per month, map your actual activities to your goal, measure the results and make it part of your routine.
Define yourself, start the transformation process today, and you will become the new person you are wishing to be in the near future.
Companies are looking for a winning strategy to survive in this roller coaster business environment. They are revising their business plans and redefining processes.
This same strategy applies to all working professionals who run their careers as a business. They should re-evaluate and re-plan their careers, redefine current daily tasks to be more competitive and gain the ability to win when the market turns around.
What we do today defines what we become tomorrow. Transformation starts today and carries through each day whenever you decide to do things differently and more strategically.
Let's first understand who we are today. Log your activities for a whole week and classify your activities into the following categories:
Short term
1) Daily operational short term tasks
2) Temporary assignments
3) Tactical meetings
4) Routine jobs
Long term and strategic
1) Networking and mentoring
2) Learning new skills and building new strengths
3) Understand emerging technology and industries
4) Write white papers and summaries about your product and build your portfolio
5) Design and build your personal brand
6) Establish processes and automate your business operation
If you spend less than 20% of your time on long term and strategic activities, you must increase your investment in this category.
If you do spend more than 20% of your time on long term and strategic actives, but you haven't got your expected result, examine your goal and validate your strategy to reach such goals.
Log your time again one week per month, map your actual activities to your goal, measure the results and make it part of your routine.
Define yourself, start the transformation process today, and you will become the new person you are wishing to be in the near future.
Comments
btw, I just voted you today for NAAAP as the next officer.
Good luck!
Esther