We are living in a time of extreme challenges where traditional thinking about career choices, career exploration and balancing work and life no longer ensures success. Moving up the career ladder, seeking more money, looking for the next hot technology or job … are these strategies leading to the fulfillment and success you want? Not according to what we’re seeing…
Solid career help comes from leveraging information, tools and coaching that help you stop being paralyzed by uncertainty & fear and start blazing your own trail by being clear, confident, and courageous in your actions.
Strong career help supports you through online learning, community and career coaches that help you make career changes that work for you. Dive into career exploration so you can answer this question: “What is the right career for me now and in the future”?
Career Help Leads to the Best Career for You
You can know for sure that the ‘right career for me‘ is one that results in you being your best every day, where you are passionately engaged in your work.
The ‘right career for me’ is created by using career help that leads to deeply satisfying, meaningful, and lucrative work that also contributes to a life you love and the betterment of business and the communities around you. And you don’t have to compromise anything!
The Best Career Help Leads to Authentic Career Choices
Your best career choices come from within: authentic choices based on knowing your talents and contributing your talents in ways that lead to the creation of what you want to see happen in your life and maybe even the world.
Your worst career choices happen when you look for security and success by chasing the fickle winds of relentless change, seeking certainty in an external world of uncertainty.
The Old Way of Getting Career Help
The old way of getting career help would have you assess current job or work opportunities, pick career goals based on how your strengths match these opportunities, make a plan to achieve these goals, and then implement your plan. Once you’ve completed your plan and gotten the job you want, you can rest easy…
There are several problems with this approach:
Old Ways of Providing Career Help Cause Stress
- Many career opportunities are obsolete before career development planning is complete.
- Career help becomes a rare event you make when you’re stressed.
- What you really want, your passions and interests, are not considered … or even leveraged.
- Too often you end up sacrificing your authentic career path, for the practicalities of what others need or the sake of maintaining a steady paycheck.
With the old way you can never truly rest easy because you focus on things beyond your control. You hope for the economy to change and do nothing, when now is the perfect time to take charge and do something different!
Unless you eventually learn how to take a stand for your authentic career path, you will eventually sell your soul for the sake of that steady paycheck. At a minimum, you will end up with no idea of how to handle the crazy uncertainty and challenges of our times. And that steady paycheck is really just an illusion.
The Old Way of Getting Career Help is Reactive
The old way of getting career help and making career choices is reacting to ‘what is’ rather than ‘creating the right career for me.’ You react to an uncertain external world, expecting to create certainty.
You try to play within known variables. You play it safe. You settle. You stay in a box whose boundaries are defined by ‘what is known.’ You become attached to the status quo.
You become more and more invested in the way things have been done at a time when the rate of change is only increasing.
Ironically, in trying to create stability and certainty, you actually end up less engaged, less relevant and less safe. You become ossified: less flexible and able to move with change. Ultimately, you create more uncertainty and stress for yourself.
The New Way of Getting Career Help
Ironically, the certain uncertainty of our challenging times ensures that opportunities are abundant for getting a life, balancing work and life and creating the ‘career for me‘. The question then becomes how do you get career help and make career choices that take advantage of these opportunities as they emerge, evolve and change? How do you create certainty when everything seems so unstable?
The answer is to get career help and make career choices that lead you to become brilliant at emerging, evolving and changing based on the development and contribution of your talents – ongoing.
The best career help maximizes your learning and growth. So, your choices are not in reaction to events, but instead are in harmony with your authentic path of soul evolution and the needs that interest you in the workplace and the marketplace.
The key is to exercise your career choices to the fullest extent possible: to live the American dream of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. To not hold back on what you want in any way.
The worst strategy is to ‘wait and see’ and react to the waves of change as they come crashing down upon you.
The best strategy is to ride atop the waves of change, taking charge of which waves you ride and how you ride them by learning, growing and evolving both personally and professionally, by relentlessly exercising your choices and freedoms to the fullest extent possible.
Career Help and Making Career Choices in the New Way are Proactive and Creative
You are the creator of the waves of change you are experiencing. Knowing this helps you actively participate in shaping your work and life in exactly the ways you want.
You’ve Got Talent
Shifting to new ways of finding career help is tricky because old ways are embedded into how most people think about work and how many corporate career development planning programs are conducted.
How many times have you heard the word ‘sacrifice’ when it comes to work? Or heard people say you must ‘pay your dues’ before you get what you want?
In traditional career development planning, people in perceived positions of power decide ‘who’s got talent.’
By thinking about work as a sacrifice, by letting others decide when you’ve got talent, you put others in charge of one of the most important aspects of yourself: your talents and how you contribute these talents to the world in the form of your work!
In most situations, this approach contributes to ‘wait and see’ career strategies because talent is ‘other determined’ not ‘self determined.’ Or you’re delaying what you really want or what you’re best at, until some later time. Too often you compromise the ways you can be at your best now, for the needs of others, rather than finding a path forward that creates synergies between both.
The result of ‘wait and see’ career strategies is a dis-empowered and passive workforce … not what is needed to foster creativity, innovation and new markets.
If you have read this far, you are likely a person who is ready to decide for yourself that you’ve got talent, you are ready to maximize your talent now, get career help, and make career choices that allow you to get on top of the waves of change.
We Provide Career Help that Empowers You
You don’t need us to tell you ‘you’ve got talent,’ but you might need some help in learning new career development planning strategies that help you focus on your talents and their ongoing evolution. We know there are not a lot of examples of ‘the new way’ out there, but that doesn’t need to stop you!
You are Essential
The secret to thriving in challenging times is to get career help and have career development planning strategies that show you how to remember your talents, the joy of giving your talents, and to exercise your career choices and freedoms to the fullest extent possible in an ongoing fashion.
You can start by thinking of your talents as the greatest gifts you have to give. You access them by remembering the value of your strengths, experiences and perspectives. Remembering is a process of learning, growing and healing: becoming more and more whole every day.
We like to call this gifted, growing, evolving part of you your ‘best self’ because it’s the part of you that the world needs most – you at your best.
Your ‘best self’ is the essence of the real you. Your soul’s purpose. Essential in the world. Nothing less.
If you do not feel essential, if you are not at your best every day, if you are not passionately engaged in your work, if you are not learning and growing, if you are tired more than energized in your work … then you are being passive in your career choices and not getting the right kind of career help.
Career Help that Empowers Results in Your Feeling Engaged – Every Day
The alternative is to get the right kind of career help that shows you how to take charge of your career and actively make career choices that keep you at the top of your game, relevant, engaged, evolving and changing – in ways that are fun and easy!
The alternative to a ‘wait-and-see’ strategy is to remember that you are essential and do whatever is needed to enjoy riding the waves of change and challenge.
Now is the Time
Yes, these are challenging times!
And now is the perfect time to get career help and to remember your essential best, to stop waiting & get back to who you really are. Now is the time to transform yourself from the person who has slowly and unknowingly settled for the status quo to being a person who loves your work and life.
Now is the time to get career help that empowers.
Now is the time to take charge and make the most of your career choices.
Now is the time to be the leader of your life … of your career.
Now is the time to rediscover the best of who you are.
You Get to Decide
The learning and resources that we provide within the IAM Way Courses are designed to provide career help that guides you in remembering that you are indeed essential. Talented. Gifted.
We offer a new way to experience career development planning, a way that supports you in making career choices that result in you being your best every day, in being passionately engaged in your work, that leads to creating work and life you love, for your benefit and the good of others.
We offer leadership and career help through a variety of ways:
The High Level True Self Assessment – FREE.
The Define Your True Self course.
The Passion, Authenticity & Leadership @ WORKbook.
The Leadership and Career Essentials program.
We look forward to being in touch with you!