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2012 Personal Plan – Step 21 – Test Your Strategies

Yes No ChecklistDay 21 of 31 days to Creating Your Inspiring Personal Plan for 2012 In Step 20, you created your hypothesis of the five or six strategies that you will be implementing in 2012 in order to make your Vision become an accurate depiction of how you are currently living your life, as opposed to merely an aspirational statement. Now, you need to test the validity of those strategies. All of the remaining steps in the planning process are predicated on
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Posted on Jan 23, 2012 under Miscellaneous tags , . by Andy Robinson. Comments Off

Is Your Personal Brand Fake?

I recently came across a video called Sh*t New Yorkers Say. The video is a funny account of what it’s like to live in New York City. It touches on all that is magical and all that is annoying about this city in less than 3 minutes. Its accuracy is uncanny and as a native New Yorker I’ve undoubtedly uttered at least 90% of the same things about this city during my time here. But I think the beauty of the video is that it depicts New York City life in a transparent and authentic way. It’s a city that attracts and repels its inhabitants at the same time. The feeling you get living in New York City is not black or white. It’s gray. And to me, anything that appears only black or white is not authentic. There must be gray in order for it to be real. ... Read more
Posted on Jan 23, 2012 under Branding tags , . by Barbara Safani. Comments Off

Leveraging Relationships with a Dream Team

"We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other.
If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you."
- Jeff Warner

Carefully consider your answers to the following questions:

  • Who do you routinely call upon for career advice and career counsel?  What is the quality of that advice?  Do you value those conversations and always "take away" something new and insightful?
  • Who do you call upon or meet with who helps you stretch your mind and challenge your thinking?
  • Who serves as your tried and true "sounding board" for new ideas, crazy ideas, and "to good to be true" ideas?
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Posted on Jan 19, 2012 under Networking tags . by Andy Robinson. Comments Off

2012 Personal Plan – Step 20 – Choose Your Best Strategies for 2012

 

Day 20 of 31 days to Creating Your Inspiring Personal Plan for 2012

Congratulations, you are coming into the home stretch of this 31 day/step process for building a personal plan that will accelerate your success in 2012. I am delighted that you are among that small minority of the population who have the discipline to take the steps that bring success. Your commitment to this process speaks volumes about what you should be able to achieve in 2012 with the benefit of your thoughtful plan. Today’s task is one of the most important that you will be doing in the entire 31 day/step process. In this task, you will be choosing from among the many potential strategies you developed over the last week using a variety of techniques. I will be giving you some guidance as to ways to optimize your selection. But before I do so, I want to again remind you of the silent killer of so much potential – perfectionism. If you didn’t read it when first presented, I strongly urge you to read this excellent quik-read guest post on perfectionism by the very thoughtful Janet Vanderhoof.
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Posted on Jan 19, 2012 under Career Development & Management tags , . by Andy Robinson. Comments Off

2012 Personal Plan – Step 19 – Use Seth Godin Brilliance to Create Possible Strategies

Day 19 of 31 days to Creating Your Inspiring Personal Plan for 2012 By now, you should have developed a robust list of potential strategies that support your compelling Vision. You have potential strategies derived from using Gap Analysis (Step 14), using Strengths Analysis (Step 15), using Core Analysis (Step 16), using Support Analysis (Step 17), and using Change Analysis (Step 18). Hopefully, in each of these steps you have opened up your mind to a world of possibilities. Well, in this step – the last before we start narrowing the list to the five or six strategies you will use in 2012 – I want to really, really stretch your thinking. And, I believe I have just the group of stars who can help me do that for you. But, before introducing you to these stars, I want to share some perspective on why possibility thinking is so challenging in strategic planning.  
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Posted on Jan 18, 2012 under Branding tags , . by Andy Robinson. Comments Off

2012 Personal Plan – Step 18 – Use Change Analysis to Create Possible Strategies

Day 18 of 31 days to Creating Your Inspiring Personal Plan for 2012

By now, you should have developed a robust list of potential strategies that support your compelling Vision. You have potential strategies derived from using Gap Analysis (Step 14), using Strengths Analysis (Step 15), using Core Analysis (Step 16), and using Support Analysis (Step 17).  Hopefully, in formulating each of these groups of potential strategies you used possibility thinking, instead of the all to frequent tendency to use narrow minded, limitations thinking. Often people don’t even realize when they are falling prey to limitations thinking.
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Posted on Jan 17, 2012 under Executive Coaching tags , . by Andy Robinson. Comments Off

Betty White: Relevant and Employable at Age 90

At age 88 Betty White had a leading role in the TV show Hot in Cleveland, a memorable Snickers commercial that first aired during the Superbowl, and a guest host spot on Saturday Night Live. And in the two years that have followed, Bette White continues to be everywhere and the job offers don’t seem to be slowing down. Today is Betty White’s 90th birthday and she’s still working. And I think this is a testament to her relevance. Her age hasn’t held her back because she continues to be able to play roles that people young and old can relate to and appreciate. In job search, people sometimes assume that they will be discriminated against because of their age. But I think that some candidates get passed up for others because they lack relevance. Maybe they don’t mesh well with the culture of a company with a demographic that skews younger, or their management style isn’t in sync with the needs of their younger subordinates. Perhaps their skills aren’t up to date or they are resistant to incorporate relevant social media and collaborative web-based project management tools into the way they do their job. Perhaps we can all take a lesson from Bette White. Because whether you are 25, 35, 45, 55, or older you won’t be the right person for the job if you can’t prove you are relevant to a prospective employer’s needs. Check out my earlier tribute to Betty White and 5 tips for remaining relevant in your career on AOL Jobs.  
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Posted on Jan 17, 2012 under Career Development & Management tags . by Barbara Safani. Comments Off

Are You Ready for an Improving Executive Job Market?

Many indicators point to hiring in general picking up but one of the leading indicators proves that executives hires now look very strong now. Not only has the US Department of Labor backed up these statistics but many leading indicators prove executive hiring is climbing at a healthy rate. Any rate of advancement seems good vs. what we have had for over three years. But this growth in executive jobs also presents a dilemma for those in both a confidential search or non-confidential search.   ... Read more
Posted on Jan 16, 2012 under Job Search tags . by John O'Connor. Comments Off

2012 Personal Plan – Step 17 – Use Support Analysis to Create Possible Strategies

Supporting FoundationDay 17 of 31 days to Creating Your Inspiring Personal Plan for 2012

Back in Step 12, you identified some supporting elements of your Vision statement. These elements are things that you rate highly, along with pursuit of your Core element. Some examples: If “family” is not the core element, then I expect that “family” is an important support element for many of you. If your vocation (or your desired vocation) was not a core element for you, then I expect that some measure of vocational success is an important supporting element for many of you. In the last step (Step 16), you focused on
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Posted on Jan 16, 2012 under Miscellaneous tags , . by Andy Robinson. Comments Off

2012 Personal Plan – Step 16 – Use Core Analysis to Create Possible Strategies

Idea Generation

Day 16 of 31 days to Creating Your Inspiring Personal Plan for 2012

In the last step (Step 15), you focused on brainstorming possible strategies for leveraging your strengths, a key element of your Vision statement. In today’s step, you move on to the “core” of your Vision statement. Remember the “core” is that part of your Vision statement that is most important to your fulfilling your Life Purpose (Step 12). For this step, add at least
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Posted on Jan 13, 2012 under Miscellaneous tags , . by Andy Robinson. Comments Off
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