As you move forward in your career, you'll find there are things that need to change. You might want to take a different direction, making some course correction from previous mistakes or leveraging a new opportunity. Sometimes your career stalls because that position or promotion you were promised never happens or maybe you've become stale after spending too much time in the same role and industry. This change of direction usually requires a significant career transformation. 

"You need to reinvent yourself if you want a career transformation."

The important thing about transformation is that it depends on your ability to learn from experience, in particular to understand what your role was that resulted in the current circumstances you find yourself in. Successful transformations consist of acknowledging your situation, accepting it, and taking action towards your reinvention.

Begin your transformation. 

Acknowledge and accept your situation as well as your desire for transformation. Then, take action and start reinventing your career. Be intentional with your actions. You have to truly desire the 'new' you more than the comfort of the current you. Transformation will occur when you recognize, then change the behaviors that are the source of the accumulating career baggage you are carrying today.

Critical elements for a successful transformation

Get to know yourself

Comprehend your strengths and weaknesses, as well as important personality attributes. This will help you create realistic steps towards your goals.

Reinvent yourself.

Acknowledge the reason behind the desired change. Then, create new goals and/or objectives for your career transformation.

Take advantage of the opportunities given

A new role at a new company, new location, market, or station in the same organization,

a promotion and/or different shift in the same organization, even a new assignment are the best opportunities for transformation.

Enjoy the ride

Don't forget that every step forward, as well as every obstacle, is a lesson. Joy comes from the journey and the people you meet in your path towards the new you.

As we celebrate our Independence Day, let's consider the many transformations our country has undergone. It required many reinventions, and it's still a work in progress. We must always do the same, transformation, adapt, and liberate our career.



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Warm regards,

Mike McNamara

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