Master a Career Transition

Master a Career Transition
Author: Lisa J. Downs
Publisher: Association for Talent Development
Total Pages: 20
Release: 2014-10-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1952157013

Are you considering venturing out as an independent contractor? Or maybe you are contemplating retirement. It’s important to have a plan in place to ensure your career transition is successful and leads to a fulfilling future. In this issue of TD at Work, Lisa J. Downs details how to: Determine personal readiness for transitioning out of full-time internal work. Identify key considerations prior to leaving your current talent development role. Explore career options beyond traditional talent development employment. Prepare successfully for your next move. Take action toward the future you want to create.

Your Next Move

Your Next Move
Author: Michael D. Watkins
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2009-10-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1422152707

"Whether you're going for that promotion, looking to jump ship, or change careers entirely, Michael Watkins' Your Next Move is a book you'll want to read." So starts the positive review of Your Next Move on the influential 800 CEO Read website. It's true that all leaders--no matter how seasoned--need guidance through the professional changes that define a career. In fact, transitions into new roles are the crucibles in which leaders get their toughest tests, and they're the defining factor in professional careers today. Yet far too often, leaders fail to transition effectively into new roles. The resulting costs are high, for individual careers and for organizations. In Your Next Move, leadership-transition guru Watkins shows how you can survive and thrive in all the major transitions you will face during your career-including promotions, leading former peers, on-boarding into a new organization, making an international move, or turning around or realigning an organization. With real-life examples and case studies, Watkins illustrates the defining hurdles associated with each type of transition. He then provides the insights, strategies, and tools you'll need to accelerate through these crucial turning points and continue moving up in your career. The necessary complement to the author's bestselling guide The First 90 Days, which has been translated in more than 20 languages worldwide, Your Next Move offers the keen observations, tried-and-true management wisdom, and practical good sense Watkins is renowned for. It's a vital resource for any manager or executive seeking to maintain career momentum. To quote the reviewer from above: "It's not just about "moving" but about what happens when those actions are taken. Success or failure are the two options, and which option you emerge with will determine what happens going forward. Watkins' book definitely has the research and insight to equip you for the better of the two paths."

Master Your Next Move, with a New Introduction

Master Your Next Move, with a New Introduction
Author: Michael D. Watkins
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2019-03-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1633697614

Your next professional move can make or break your career. Are you ready? In business, especially today, you are only as successful as your next career transition. Do well, and you'll be on the fast track to even more challenging roles. Fail, and you could irreparably harm your career--and your organization. In his international bestseller The First 90 Days, transition guru Michael D. Watkins outlined a set of basic principles for getting up to speed quickly in new professional roles. Since that book was published Watkins has worked with thousands of leaders, helping them to accelerate their transitions. These leaders posed challenging questions on how to apply the basic principles in real-life situations. The truth that emerged: the First 90 Days framework can be applied in every transition, but the way you apply it is entirely different when you have been promoted to a higher level than it is when you are joining a new organization or taking a role in a different country. Master Your Next Move answers a distinct need, focusing on the most common types of transitions leaders face and the unique challenges posed by each. Based on years of research, and now with a new introduction, this indispensable book explores eight crucial transitions virtually everyone encounters during their career, including promotion, leading former peers, onboarding into a new company, making an international move, and turning around a business in crisis. With real-world examples and many practical models and tools, Master Your Next Move is your guide to surviving and thriving as you make your next move . . . and every one after that.

Mastering mid-career transition

Mastering mid-career transition
Author: Risto M Koskinen
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2024-07-03
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9528071317

Are you a mid-career professional seeking change? Mastering Mid-Career Transition offers a comprehensive guide to navigating career pivots with confidence. Discover eight essential perspectives and proven tools to anticipate, navigate, and thrive in career transitions. Craft a vision for a balanced life where work aligns with your values. Harness tools to cope with the emotional rollercoaster of career transition. Assess your life course, career phases, and values. Identify and leverage your unique skill set within a broader context. Uncover opportunities for value creation and research potential new roles. Embrace the narrative of a professional pivot and develop your brand. Explore unexpected career possibilities and chart a sustainable trajectory. Master strategies for effective professional relationships. Risto M Koskinen, MBA, widely known as #CoachRisto, is a career transition coach and strategist with a proven track record. With a rich academic and practical background in education, social work, and business administration, and more, he brings a unique blend of expertise to his coaching practice, grounded in evidence-based strategies and a solution-focused approach. Whether you're facing a career crossroads or seeking to guide others through their transitions, Mastering Mid-Career Transition offers invaluable insights and practical tools for lasting transformation.

Life Is in the Transitions

Life Is in the Transitions
Author: Bruce Feiler
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2020-07-14
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1594206821

A New York Times bestseller! A pioneering and timely study of how to navigate life's biggest transitions with meaning, purpose, and skill Bruce Feiler, author of the New York Times bestsellers The Secrets of Happy Families and Council of Dads, has long explored the stories that give our lives meaning. Galvanized by a personal crisis, he spent the last few years crisscrossing the country, collecting hundreds of life stories in all fifty states from Americans who’d been through major life changes—from losing jobs to losing loved ones; from changing careers to changing relationships; from getting sober to getting healthy to simply looking for a fresh start. He then spent a year coding these stories, identifying patterns and takeaways that can help all of us survive and thrive in times of change. What Feiler discovered was a world in which transitions are becoming more plentiful and mastering the skills to manage them is more urgent for all of us. The idea that we’ll have one job, one relationship, one source of happiness is hopelessly outdated. We all feel unnerved by this upheaval. We’re concerned that our lives are not what we expected, that we’ve veered off course, living life out of order. But we’re not alone. Life Is in the Transitions introduces the fresh, illuminating vision of the nonlinear life, in which each of us faces dozens of disruptors. One in ten of those becomes what Feiler calls a lifequake, a massive change that leads to a life transition. The average length of these transitions is five years. The upshot: We all spend half our lives in this unsettled state. You or someone you know is going through one now. The most exciting thing Feiler identified is a powerful new tool kit for navigating these pivotal times. Drawing on his extraordinary trove of insights, he lays out specific strategies each of us can use to reimagine and rebuild our lives, often stronger than before. From a master storyteller with an essential message, Life Is in the Transitions can move readers of any age to think deeply about times of change and how to transform them into periods of creativity and growth.

Disrupt Your Career: How to Navigate Uncharted Career Transitions and Thrive

Disrupt Your Career: How to Navigate Uncharted Career Transitions and Thrive
Author: Antoine Tirard
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2017-09-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1387167154

Professionals face many critical crossroads in their careers, sometimes unpredictable, sometimes more expected, but for which they were often not truly prepared. This book discusses many such career transitions - from leaving a corporation to joining a non-profit, evolving from athlete to executive, or returning to a former employer. Using the stories of 50 leaders from all over the world, the authors describe what provokes the change, the challenges it creates, how the individual is surviving the transition, and what effective leaders do to navigate and grow from it. Disrupt Your Career offers a simple, easy-to-use framework to help make the most of any uncharted transition. Drawing on examples of a wide range of companies, it also provides recommendations to help organizations better acquire, develop and retain talent.

Shifting Gears

Shifting Gears
Author: Carole Hyatt
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1992
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780671756765

From the coauthor of the bestselling When Smart People Fail, expert advice on discovering the right career path. 50 million people in the United States are in the midst of changing, or contemplating changing, their jobs. Now Carole Hyatt makes this transition period easier with practical methods and inspiring stories.

Mastering Executive Transitions

Mastering Executive Transitions
Author: Navid Nazemian
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-05-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Would it surprise you to learn that 40% of executive transitions fail during the first 18 months? With more executives facing exponential challenges, a crisis is imminent and the consequences for organizations and executives alike are severe and far-reaching. Mastering Executive Transitions: The Definitive Guide, by Navid Nazemian, explores the intersection between executive leaders and their career transitions, the research of transitions versus the reality of it, and the increased complexity and demands from executives coupled with shorter tenure and executive overwhelm. This book demonstrates how the biggest transition mistakes can be avoided and provides a proven framework to transition most successfully. It is an invaluable resource for: Executives who are about to transition professionally Human Resources leaders and talent directors who are keen to support their leaders with their transition, and enhance their existing executive transition (onboarding) process Executive coaches who have specialized in leadership transitions Through authentically demonstrated experience and key insights into the challenges that the modern executive faces, Mastering Executive Transitions: The Definitive Guide aims to bend executive transitions away from failure and towards the masterful and successfully crafted.

It's Your Move

It's Your Move
Author: Marge Watters
Publisher:
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2012
Genre: Career changes
ISBN: 9781443409070

For over a decade, It's Your Move has been helping Canadian executives, managers and professionals get the job they really want with proven advice and strategies. Today, competition for jobs is tough, but at the same time, opportunities for career change are plentiful. Thoroughly revised and updated throughout, It's Your Move offers clear, proven advice and strategies including How to use social media effectively--from establishing a powerful online presence to making the most of professional sites such as LinkedIn. A step-by-step guide to networking--approaching contacts and conducting networking meetings in a way that generates new leads and, eventually, employment opportunities. The importance of research for the job search--how to differentiate yourself from the competition through research that goes much deeper than what can be found easily on the Internet. How you negotiate a job offer--this can set a positive or negative tone for your relationship with a new employer. Understand what to negotiate and what to leave as is. For the millions of Canadians contemplating a career change or currently experiencing a sudden job loss, the updated edition of It's Your Move will be a key tool in their storehouse of career strategies.

The Proximity Principle

The Proximity Principle
Author: Ken Coleman
Publisher: Ramsey Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2019-05-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0978562038

Right now, 70% of Americans aren’t passionate about their work and are desperately longing for meaning and purpose. They’re sick of “average” and know there’s something better out there, but they just don’t know how to reach it. One basic principle―The Proximity Principle―can change everything you thought you knew about pursuing a career you love. In his latest book, The Proximity Principle, national radio host and career expert Ken Coleman provides a simple plan of how positioning yourself near the right people and places can help you land the job you love. Forget the traditional career advice you’ve heard! Networking, handing out business cards, and updating your online profile do nothing to set you apart from other candidates. Ken will show you how to be intentional and genuine about the connections you make with a fresh, unexpected take on resumes and the job interview process. You’ll discover the five people you should look for and the four best places to grow, learn, practice, and perform so you can step into the role you were created to fill. After reading The Proximity Principle, you’ll know how to connect with the right people and put yourself in the right places, so opportunities will come―and you’ll be prepared to take them.