The Career You’ll Love

I’m as ambitious as most people, I suppose. I’m always looking for new experiences, new things to do, more ways to win.

But some days it’s good to recognize the blessings you have.

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If you have a job, you’re probably very busy. You’re now doing the work of three people, struggling to catch your breath.

The difficult part is to think about the long term. You not only need to be valued as a productive worker today, but also five years from now. Or ten.

Are you building that foundation for your future career?

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You may have heard the advice that it’s good to have a coach or a mentor.  But beyond that, it can be confusing.  Why?  What should I expect?  Who should I approach?

To start with, let me explain the difference between a coaching and mentoring relationship.  With a mentor, you’re looking to follow the path that someone else has successfully navigated, perhaps who can even open doors for you.  A coach, on the other hand, focuses more on your specific goals, bringing out your best clarity and motivation from within yourself.  Sometimes the two roles are combined to various degrees.

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It seems that recently many people, perhaps most, have struggled to be inspired by their work. With such an uncertain economy, 24/7 accessibility, fear of job loss, and lack of pay increases, we’ve created work environments where many focus more on keeping up with work than on making a great contribution.

There’s some really practical reasons why you should look to be engaged in your work:

• You become more productive, thereby more valuable to your employer.
• It helps you to be more creative and bring more energy to what you do.
• It affects the attitudes of those you work with, helping you to have some fun.
• It makes you happier and more satisfied with the work you do.

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Here’s the bonus category: Yourself. We’ve spent so much time thinking about other people, we might have forgotten that it’s important how we feel about our own work!

Looking at it this way, you realize that you are independent of your work. So how does the work help you to achieve your life and career goals? How would you LIKE to relate to your work?

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I’ve broken out partners as a distinct category of stakeholders, because the relationships are much different than the others in our diagram.

The simple definition of “partner” is someone who works with you to deliver value to their customers and your customers, and to their management and your management. In the case of your teammates, the customers and management might be the same. In fact, that makes decisions much easier, because you hopefully have an environment that’s aligned and supports you working together.

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