COURSE: Strategic Career Management
SCM Framework
The best way to achieve career success is to manage one’s career with purpose and intention. The least effective route to career success is to leave one’s career in the hands of other people or to spontaneously assess random opportunities that come along.
The purpose of this framework is to enable users to position themselves for opportunities that would help them achieve the success that matters most to them.
There is no “one size fits all” approach to career management because everyone has different values and goals. This framework helps users identify what matters most to them. It also helps users identify how to achieve what matters most, with regard to career success.
You are being given access to a PDF of the “STRATEGIC CAREER MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK: The guide for the journey of your life and career.”
The access is for your purpose only. You do not have a license to distribute it to anyone else. Access the file when you agree to use the SCM Guide for your purpose.
Personal Core Values
If you have not reflected on your core values, please feel free to use this exercise. It will help you narrow down from fifty top choices to the three priorities for you.
MFL Special Edition
This Special Edition of My Fulfilling Life includes several exercises foundational to career and life success. You are welcome to use them as part of the SCM course.
Life in Weeks
Please use this to identify where you are in a lifespan of 95 years. It can help you gain perspective on life priorities.
Personal Brand Audit
Audit your brand so you know what others see. Consider sharing your audit with a colleague to gain even more insight.
Answering,
“What do you do?”
Here’s the Simon Sinek video about introductions. He encourages people to state the WHY of our work before the WHAT or WHO.
”I’m an interior designer for GastingerWalker&. We do architecture and design for all kinds of companies.”
That is okay and is the most common introduction pattern used at networking functions.
“I stimulate innovation and collaboration for growing companies across the US as an interior designer with GastingerWalker&.”
See the difference? The second one is a little different and will stand out without being sales-y.
Usually, people say WHY last, but it’s the part that often gets the strongest response. You can entice people to continue the conversation with WHY, which is the goal upon an introduction.