12 Career Action Steps

1. Succeeding in a New Environment - You've accepted a new position or maybe your company has been acquired. Either way you need to assess the new landscape. Learn the best way to get feedback and guidance from your employer, colleagues, and customers. Gain insight into how your job relates to the new culture.

2. Face Challenges and Seek New Opportunities - Organizational change is inevitable, opportunity is not. You have to create it. Learn how to identify change when it occurs, to establish short and long term goals for your position, ensuring your success and that of your organization.

3. Find a Balanced Perspective - Assessing your work/life balance is a job in itself. Define your ideal balance and put it in writing. Start by identifying your personal and professional goals. When they conflict, be proactive by comparing your current reality to your ideal and make an adjustment.

4. Never Stop Learning - Learning is a lifelong profession. Evaluate your strengths and weaknesses then seek educational opportunities that better equip you to handle your current and future positions. Identify your learning style then maximize your ability to gain and apply knowledge.

5. Evaluate Your Career Turning Points - When you hit a career crossroads like a geographic move, promotion, or layoff, it's time to assess the direction in which you're headed. Transform these moments into opportunities to choose a new path or recommit to the one you've already chosen.

6. Make the Road to Success a Joy Ride - Enjoy your career by charting your own course and focusing your energy on what you can do to succeed. Strive for excellence with constant improvements and finding ways to do your job well. While some elements may be out of your control, you can always impact these with a positive attitude.

7. Business Strengths are in the Eye of the Beholder - Skills that served you well in one situation may not be equally valuable in another. Learn to adapt by acquiring new skills and demonstrating the qualities that define success in your new environment.

8. Reach the Next Level by Creating Brand You! - Articulate and demonstrate the professional qualities you want to be known for. First assess what you do well then consistently produce results by using this behavior.

9. Be Focused in an Unclear World - Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. Avoid responding to new situations with the same unsuccessful behavior. Gain clarity by assessing your old responses then set new goals to ensure future success.

10. Effective Mentoring Begins with We Not Me - It's easier to navigate the path if you have footsteps to follow. Engage the support of others who have insight and experience to help lead you to success, then do the same for someone else because the best learning is reciprocal.

11. Achieve Career Turnaround by Tapping Your Full Potential - Find creative ways to express your skills and passions. Examine your current work situation to see how you can apply your full talents. If no opportunities exist, create them by volunteering, taking a class, or pursuing a hobby so your creativity is always in play.

12. Positioning for Stardom by Becoming a Top Performer Now - Ask your company leaders how they define a successful employee then immediately implement those traits. Assess your current skills then identify opportunities to fill in the gap between where you are now and where you want to be in the future. Ultimately, stepping up is up to you.

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