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PUTTING YOUR ACTION PLAN

TO WORK FOR YOU

As you’ve created your career action plan, you’ve naturally focused
on items that are “actionable” – realistic and measurable. The very
concreteness of your plan is what will ensure that you’re accountable to
yourself.

Some additional tips for making your plan work for you:
Keep it real. It’s important to take into consideration your life
circumstances and your individual personality when you create your career
action plan. In other words, don’t take on a project-management role if
deadlines bring on panic attacks.
Understand what you can and can’t control. Focus on yourself, and the
things that you can control. If your goal is to change your boss’s behavior
from clueless to enlightened, it’s simply not going to happen. But if instead
your goal is to find techniques for working with your boss in a way that
helps you move toward your professional goals rather than staying mired in
anger and resentment, that’s an outcome you can control.
Don’t be too hard on yourself. Don’t get discouraged if you don’t achieve
your goals on the first pass, or if you’re not making forward progress as
quickly as you’d anticipated. Don’t beat yourself up; instead plot your
strategy for recognizing and handling similar situations successfully the
next time they come around.

Understand that all information is good information. What if you
decide you don’t like where your action plan is taking you? Congratulations!
You’ve just gained invaluable insight that allowed you to avoid a painful
career choice, and you can now shift direction to explore a different
opportunity or career path that may be a better match with your interests
and aspirations.

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