Agenda:
1. Learn about career changers, the reasons they
change careers, and suggestions for managing
change.
2. Learn about the negative thoughts that can
prompt a change and stymie success
3. Learn the steps to make a successful change.
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Your employer is experiencing a downward spiral
Your relationship with your manager is damaged beyond
repair
Your life situation has changed
Your values are at odds with the corporate culture
You've stopped having fun and enjoying your job
Your company is ethically challenged
For whatever reason, you have behaved in ways that are
considered improper at work
You've burned your bridges with your coworkers
Your stress level is so high at work that it is affecting your
physical or mental health
You are unchallenged.
You Feel Stuck in Your Current Job
 You Feel Unappreciated in Your Current
Job
 You Feel Overworked on Your Job
 You Dislike Your Career Field and Job
 You Dislike Your Employer, Coworkers or
Customers
 You Can't Stand Your Boss
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Here Are Some Suggestions…
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Talk to your boss to make sure you're right.
Ask about opportunities for lateral moves
and for more interesting, skill-stretching
assignments. Most workplaces value
initiative and people who want to continue
to learn and grow.
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Consider swapping assignments with a
coworker who feels like you do about trying
something new. (Ask for your manager's
agreement, of course.)
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Tell your boss you would like her input about how she
views your work. Tell the boss you'd like to sit down with
him regularly to obtain feedback, both good and bad, so
you can improve.
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Offer to chair an employee recognition team that can
develop a process for recognizing the hard work and
efforts of all your coworkers. After all, if you're feeling
unappreciated, you can bet others are, too.
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Sometimes, feeling unappreciated has to do with money.
Ask for a raise or ask when you can expect your
compensation review. Follow up to make sure it happens.
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Talk with your employer, after collecting some good
data and evidence, if you find that the job is indeed
more work than one person can comfortably handle.
Brainstorm options that include these:
› --hire a new employee,
--push for a part-time employee or intern to work with you,
--identify tasks you can stop doing, and
--determine the value-added tasks and eliminate noncritical job components.
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Take time to flowchart your work processes and see
where you have waste in the process. Are you doing
work over? How does extra time or s make your work
processes more difficult and time-consuming than
they warrant?
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Spend a year exploring your career options
and needs.
--Meet with people already working in the
fields you are exploring.
--Determine education or credentials
necessary to move on.
--Read books by authors such as Barbara
Sher.
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Make a careful plan with a timeline, and
move on!.
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Start out by exploring whether you have
any control over any aspect of the situation
that is bothering you. If you identify areas
you control, try fixing them. Perhaps sitting
in the break room listening to people
complain is ruining your good spirits. Stay
out of there for awhile to see if your outlook
improves.
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Consider transferring to a new work area or
trading customers with a coworker.
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Talk to your manager about your concerns.
Many people don't realize the affect their
actions create. Others just don't care.
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If you are planning to leave anyway, you don’t
have a lot to lose. Talk with your manager's
boss or your Human Resources department to
see if they can remedy the situation.
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Transfer to a different department. Try to
remove yourself from the manager's influence.
1: Figure out what's wrong with your job.
 2: Know your strengths and weaknesses,
recognize your negative thoughts and
behaviors, then determine which of your
skills are transferable.
 3: Research your options.
 4: Be realistic about opportunities in new
fields.
 5: Secure some experience.
 6: Objectively evaluate whether you can
you afford to make the change.
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 Decision-Making
Confusion
 Commitment
Anxiety
 External Conflict
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Some negative thinking is normal
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Too much negative thinking
› makes career changemore difficult
› may cause you to avoid decisions that need
to be made
Difficult to begin or continue with
career change due to
› negative feelings
› confusion about change
Difficult to commit to a specific
plan, along with strong worries
about change
Difficult to balance the importance
of your ideas with the importance
of ideas of family members and
friends, making a change more
difficult
Replacing negative career
thoughts with more positive career
thoughts leads to better choices
Four steps to improving your career thoughts:
1) Identify - Become aware of your negative
career thoughts
2) Challenge - Consider if these thoughts make
sense and help you in making change
3) Alter - If your thoughts are negative, then
change these thoughts
4) Act - Take the action you need to make a
positive change
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When your career thoughts
become more negative
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Examples: no, all, can't, never,
whenever, and always.
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When your career thoughts are
false
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These "red flags“ signal that you
are thinking negatively
Ingredients
Steps
1.
Knowledge about
yourself
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Realize you need to make
a change
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Knowing your options
2.
Make sure you
understand yourself and
your options
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Thinking about your
decision-making
3.
Expand & narrow your
options (as needed)
4.
Choose an occupation or
field of study
5.
Implement your change
Know how you make
decisions
Knowledge
Domain
Action
Domain
Break big
decisions
into small
concrete
steps
 Create plan
with goals,
objectives
and steps
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Individual Career Action Plan
BEST OCCUPATIONAL MATCHES
After exploring several occupations, I've come to the
conclusion that I'd like to pursue:
SHORT TERM CAREER PLAN (one month to one year)
OCCUPATIONAL GOALS: Within the next year this is what I'd
like to accomplish as far as my career is concerned:
EDUCATION/TRAINING GOALS: This is what I'd like to have
completed as far as education and training is
concerned, i.e. taking a six month course, applying
LONG TERM CAREER PLAN (one year to five years)
OCCUPATIONAL GOALS: Within the next five years this is what
I'd like to accomplish as far as my career is concerned:
EDUCATION/TRAINING GOALS: Within the next five years this is
the education/training I want to have completed, i.e.
complete college or graduate school; become certified
in my chosen field
BARRIERS
The following barriers may make it difficult for me to reach my
goals, i.e. young children, elderly parents, a disability:
Here's how I'll deal with these barriers so I can reach my
goals, i.e. childcare or eldercare: