How Resilient is Your Career?
Tip #2 is here!
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Just how resilient is your career? How do you build resilience into your career? We continue the series of career resilience tips by Cheryl Liew-Chng, CEO of LifeWorkz.
These tips were published in this month's HomeTeam NSmen magazine. Read them, apply them to your career - and forward this to a friend who needs it!
Welcome to Tip #2 of our Career Resilience series!
Just about every professional I talk to agrees that building career resilience is now more important than ever.
What is career resilience? It is the ability to thrive in difficult situations and times, and to achieve career development and work fulfilment despite the challenges at hand.
So how can you build career resilience? In my last email, I shared how reframing your career will give you the ability to recreate your success in another context. But that's not all.
Here's our next tip…
Tip #2: Know your own unique factors for success
To build career resilience, you must know your own unique factors for success.
What keeps your energy levels high?
Do you know what energises you and draws out the best from you? Someone I know was bored and restless at work, and not could understand why, because he usually enjoyed his work and relished every challenge that came his way.
After we spoke about his situation, he realised that he thrived in start-up situations in which he could create new frameworks and implement fresh ideas, rather than an environment that required him to operate in ‘maintenance mode'.
But as the company moved from a start-up phase to a more stable consolidation phase, it no longer provided him the same sense of challenge and job satisfaction. He had not changed his job, but his job had changed.
Determine the types of environment that you thrive in.
- What kinds of settings do you enjoy working in - teams or individual?
- Do you relish short-term projects or long-term endeavors?
- Has your environment changed - perhaps even without you realising?
What are your strengths?
Knowing your strengths is essential. Your strengths are skills you enjoy using, and things that you are good at doing. For instance, if you love to persuade and influence others, these are most probably your strengths.
If you are not sure what your strengths are, there are inventories that you can take. Or simply ask your friends and colleagues, because they would have a good idea what you do best. However, be sure to differentiate your strengths from things that you have been trained to do or are required to do, but do not enjoy.
Knowing your strengths is important so that you can set yourself up for success rather than failure.
Get a Good Match!
No two persons are the same, and no two jobs are exactly the same.
If you have been successful in your career, it is because your job - and the job environment - matches your unique factors for success.
And what, you may ask, does that have to do with career resilience? Everything. Because nothing builds resilience - and confidence - like success.
TIP #2: Identify what works for you, and go for jobs that match your unique factors for success!
More tips coming your way!
I will have more tips for you in a couple of days.
If you've found today's tip useful, or if you have some thoughts or questions to share, please email me at Cheryl_Liew@MyLifeWorkz.com
Till the next time,
Cheryl
p.s. You are most welcome to pass this on and share these tips with your friends and loved ones. Everyone of us could do with a little help in such times!
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.:About Cheryl Liew-Chng
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 Cheryl Liew-Chng will be speaking at a breakfast briefing on Feb 25 on Talent Management in Turbulent Times, unveiling the latest research findings relating to talent management. Click here to register
Cheryl is an established authority on Work-Life integration, Gender (women@work), and Generations (the multi-generational management approach) in the Asia-Pacific region. She speaks frequently on HR matters at both national events and prestigious international platforms, including The Conference Board and the Alliance for Work-Life Progress in the USA.
Cheryl is the author of Talents Onboard and co-author of Working Together - two landmark publications on work-life integration. She has also trained the 100+ Work-Life Ambassadors in the Singapore Civil Service. She holds a Master degree in Human Resource Development and is an alumna of INSEAD.
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Building Career Resilience
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Date: 18 Feb (Wed)
Time: 7.30pm-8.30pm
Location: Shenton Way area
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Talent Management
in Turbulent Times
Date: 25 Feb (Wed)
Time: 8.30-10.00am
Venue: Raffles Place area
Cheryl will unveil the latest research findings relating to talent management in these turbulent times. A breakfast briefing with unique value propositions for senior management, managers and HR professionals!
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Career Essentials for Women
Date: 7 Mar (Sat)
Time: 9am-5pm
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