{"id":1451,"date":"2012-08-10T11:13:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T18:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2012-08-10T11:22:28","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T18:22:28","slug":"others-affected-by-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/career\/others-affected-by-the-job","title":{"rendered":"Creating a custom job out of thin air, part 4: Others affected by the job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/career\/describing-how-value-would-be-provided\" target=\"_blank\">previous installment of this series<\/a>, I talked about how to describe the value in the job you&#8217;d like to create.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most difficult concerns about creating a job is how it affects other people around it. <!--more-->This includes areas such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>People who receive value directly from the work you&#8217;d do<\/li>\n<li>Others who are already delivering work which might be addressing what you&#8217;d be doing<\/li>\n<li>Others who have to change what they&#8217;re doing because of your new job<\/li>\n<li>People who would sense a status change in themselves or others<\/li>\n<li>People who have to manage you in this job<\/li>\n<li>People who have to help you address other areas of risk \u2013 smoothing ruffled feathers, explaining things, making or influencing decisions<\/li>\n<li>People who are impacted by you moving out of your current job<\/li>\n<li>People who have to fund, approve, or expedite your work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is just a partial list! Expect this to be at least 20 or 30 people, or you probably haven&#8217;t thought through it enough. What you&#8217;re trying to do is to describe the organizational difference between the current situation and your desired situation, from the standpoint of everybody&#8217;s role, job, and status.<\/p>\n<p>I recommend getting as specific as possible: real people with actual names, not just vague generalities. When you treat people as groups, you often miss some specific concerns which may come back to derail your plans.<\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re talking to these people to understand if they would be affected by your proposal, you may have to be a bit cagey. Perhaps you can&#8217;t just come right out and say, &#8220;I&#8217;d like to create this new job&#8230;&#8221; \u2013 Just saying that may set off a firestorm of resistance that will be hard to control. Most of the time, you&#8217;ll be talking with people to understand their role and their needs, to get a sense of whether they recognize the compelling organizational need I talked about back in part 2.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/career\/stakeholders-and-gatekeepers\" target=\"_blank\">next article<\/a> will go into more depth on two particular groups of people: stakeholders and gatekeepers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the previous installment of this series, I talked about how to describe the value in the job you&#8217;d like to create. One of the most difficult concerns about creating <a href=\"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/career\/others-affected-by-the-job\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[76,41,7],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-carl","4":"has-more-link","5":"post-1451","7":"format-standard","8":"category-career","9":"post_tag-career","10":"post_tag-influence","11":"post_tag-job-change"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1455,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions\/1455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}