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Welcome to the first edition of the Speaking of Success newsletter! In each edition, we provide you with an article or exercise for your ongoing development and a quick tip for your continued success. Below we present our first Success Scenario—a situation where your Executive Success Principles® will be put to the test. With these exercises you'll learn to:
1. Communicate the vision In 'At the Cross-Roads', you'll gain strategies for handling promotion opportunities to ensure your chosen path propels you to further success and doesn't prevent you from reaching your full potential. Tough decisions lie ahead. Be prepared.
Success Scenario: At the Cross-Roads: Choosing Job Opportunities To Propel You to Success
Consider the following scenario:
You are director of operations. During your last performance review your boss told you that you were slated for a promotion with added responsibility and additional direct reports.
Eighteen months later your boss calls you into her office to discuss the opportunity. Well: it’s not quite the promotion you had anticipated! It’s a one level bump, no title change and to your horror it’s the department you most dreaded. It has the least visibility and no one outside the department seems to pay any attention to it.
What would you do in this situation?
Obviously you can accept or decline the offer—but you shouldn't be thinking along these lines yet. You don't have nearly enough information to evaluate this opportunity.
Most of us say 'yes' and 'no' without asking questions. Highly successful executives, on the other hand, act like detectives in such situations, digesting all the intelligence they can get their hands on before accepting or declining the offer.
So, what kind of information do you need?
To begin with, you need a fundamental understanding of who you are in this company and what you want from it. That’s key.
Spend at least 10 minutes thinking about these facets of your employment and how they would be impacted by this opportunity. Will it change who you are in the company for the better? Will it bring you closer to your desired goals? Keep these questions in mind as you move forward.
Next, you need to know a lot more about the offer itself, which means asking yourself—and then your boss—some essential questions. Ask the following questions always—even if it’s a plum assignment, because too often the assignment isn’t what you think.
Finally, you need to consider
the context of the offer. Is there an implication hovering over it that your
boss has been asked by her boss to fill the spot and make the problem go
away—in other words, are you cannon fodder? Is it a demand—take this
assignment—or truly an offer? If the answer to such questions is yes, you
first of all need to further assess the situation. Ask for some time to
think the offer through.
We'll look at these follow-up steps in more detail in the next edition of the Speaking of Success Newsletter.
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To hire Charmaine for executive coaching, workshops or keynote speaking, contact us at: (323) 224-6820. Speaking of Success Tip #1: Don't Rely On Memory, Store Success on Your Harddrive What do you do with tips and strategies for your success like we've provided above? If you answered, 'make a mental note of it', you're in trouble: today's information-overload-era means your mind will soon replace this information with a new mental sticky note. Our minds have limited GB of storage, especially in our 'recently viewed' categories. Instead, develop a process for capturing useful information. If you don't already have a Personal Development folder on your computer, create one now. Alternatively, print this newsletter out and build a Personal Development filing system. Create sub-folders such as Communication, Image, Presentations, etc. Whenever you come across valuable tips and insights, file them in the appropriate folder. Then, when you need information on a specific topic, you'll have a pre-sorted collection of valuable information at your fingertips. Hint: If you use a program like Outlook, save this email using the command (File --> Save As) and put this email into a 'Promotions/Job Opportunities' folder. Alternatively, you can highlight and copy the information from this newsletter and put it in a Word document.
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