The question “What do you do?” is seemingly straightforward, but it can be challenging to answer given the nuanced understanding of Work, Career, and Money.
Business, as usual, is never coming back.
When we transact, we demonstrate many things to others.
All people go through the five Stages of Professional Influence.
When students apply for our programs, we often see an imbalance in their lives—even in the most successful achievers.
ZIG ZIGLAR famously said, “If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.” While many ambitious professionals have specific goals, we sometimes aren’t aimed in a direction that will ultimately help us build the career we desire, get paid what we’re worth, and not work so hard in the process. In fact, most people don’t know what they want and how to get there. If we seek to live a satisfying and comfortable life, we must confront the truth about our aims in each Condition of Life. This journey begins with carefully crafted aims that ensure that you know where you’re going.
Career is our marketplace identity. It is how we are identified as an offer of help and value in the marketplace. Career is, in general, how we are known as an identity of value and help in our public world.
How do we think accurately about our Money? Where do we tend to not think accurately and why does it matter? Money is the value of our help in the marketplace. Money includes currency (cash), equity, highly specialized skill, and other valuable forms of exchange that allow us the opportunity to transact in the marketplace. The more money we have, the more options, opportunities, and autonomy we enjoy.
How do you expand your influence? What does this mean?
How do you mitigate your cost? The cost of what?
We have entered a new era. The pandemic has revealed the true promise of the internet—to work when, where and how we want. The metaphor of climbing the corporate ladder is a relic, replaced with a career that is ours to define. Professional Influence is our ability to design the rewarding career we desire. Explore the five stages of professional influence and identify the key problems that keep us stuck at any stage. Refocus your career and redefine what winning looks like.
What stage are you?
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