Successful Career Strategy: An HR Practitioner's Guide to Reach Your Dream Job

Preface
About This book
Who Should Read This Book?
Objective of This Book
Contents
List of Figures
1: Introduction
	1.1	 The Importance of a Clearly Defined Career Strategy
	1.2	 Let’s Start
2: Define Your Career Aspiration
	2.1	 Aspiration Versus Ambition
	2.2	 Connecting to Your Deep Desire
		2.2.1	 Challenges to Connect to Our Deep Desire
		2.2.2	 Ways to Access Our Deep Desire
		2.2.3	 Relevance of the Deep Desire for Your Career Strategy
3: Career Strategy: A Five-Step Approach
	3.1	 Define Your Dream Job
		3.1.1	 Lifestyle
		3.1.2	 Type of Job
		3.1.3	 Personal and Professional Development
	3.2	 Expend Your Experience Base
		3.2.1	 How to Expand Your Experience Base
			How Robust Is Your Experience Base?
	3.3	 Assess Your Experience and Competence Gap
	3.4	 Monitor Constantly What New Opportunities Come Up
	3.5	 Be Audacious!
4: Evaluate Career Opportunities
	4.1	 Six Steps to Assess a Job Opportunity
	4.2	 The True Weight of a Position
		4.2.1	 Structure of the Organization
		4.2.2	 Governance and Delegation of Authority
		4.2.3	 Process Responsibility
	4.3	 What Is the Right Salary?
	4.4	 How Many Changes Can You Do at Once (Company, Function, Country, etc.)?
	4.5	 Prioritization of Job Opportunities
		4.5.1	 Prioritization Matrix
		4.5.2	 Mapping of Career Options in the Matrix
	4.6	 Stakeholder Engagement Plan
		4.6.1	 Establish the List of Stakeholders
		4.6.2	 Take Stakeholder’s Perspective
		4.6.3	 Personal Aspects
		4.6.4	 How to Define Your Stakeholder Engagement Plan?
	4.7	 A Simple Tool to Make Better Career Decisions
5: Drive Your Career Development
	5.1	 You Are the CEO of Your Career
		5.1.1	 Components of Career Management
	5.2	 Set Up Your Personal Career Advisory Board
		5.2.1	 Why to Set Up Your Personal Career Advisory Board?
		5.2.2	 How to Select the Board Members?
		5.2.3	 What Is a Personal Career Advisory Board?
		5.2.4	 What Topics Should Be Covered in the Board Meetings?
	5.3	 Drive Your Development: On the Job!
		5.3.1	 External Consulting
		5.3.2	 Internal Consulting Advice
		5.3.3	 International Experience
		5.3.4	 Job swap
		5.3.5	 Shadowing
		5.3.6	 360° Feedback
		5.3.7	 Peer Coaching
		5.3.8	 Online Learning
		5.3.9	 External Best Practice Sharing and Expert Groups
	5.4	 Reverse Succession Planning
		5.4.1	 Limitations of Traditional Succession Planning
			How to Establish Your Reverse Succession Plans?
		5.4.2	 Discussion with Rolf Peiffer
	5.5	 The Diamond Principle of Career Management
		5.5.1	 Two Career Phases
			Communication
			Time Management
	5.6	 Your First 100 Days in a New Job
		5.6.1	 The Action-Oriented School
		5.6.2	 The Listening-Oriented School
		5.6.3	 Who Is Right, the Action or the Listening-Oriented School?
		5.6.4	 It Depends on You
		5.6.5	 It also Depends on the Situation
			A Crisis May Require Shortening the Time for Listening
			The Question of Your Predecessor
			Time to Prepare
		5.6.6	 Conclusion
	5.7	 Write Your “Life CV”
	5.8	 Think Big! Baby Elephant Story
		5.8.1	 Do We Have Virtual Ropes Around Our Necks?
6: Assess Company Culture
	6.1	 The Unwritten Rules of the Game
		6.1.1	 The Visible and the Invisible Part of the Iceberg
		6.1.2	 How to Learn More About These Unwritten Rules?
	6.2	 Internal Competition
	6.3	 Breaking the Disempowering Spiral
		6.3.1	 What Is Blocking Empowerment?
		6.3.2	 The Vicious Spiral
		6.3.3	 Breaking the Spiral!
		6.3.4	 Change the Perspective
	6.4	 Trust Management: How to Enhance Trust in Your Organization
7: Deepen Your Self-Awareness
	7.1	 How Can You Learn More About Yourself?
		7.1.1	 “Who Am I”
		7.1.2	 What Sources Can I Use to Learn More About Myself?
		7.1.3	 Leadership Is a Lifelong Learning Journey
	7.2	 Be Narcissistic and Love Your Weaknesses
	7.3	 Leverage on Feedback for Your Career Development
		7.3.1	 Barriers to Feedback
		7.3.2	 Recommendations
	7.4	 Make Good Usage of People Assessment Tools
		7.4.1	 Am I a High Potential?
		7.4.2	 Should Employees Be Informed About Their Potential?
		7.4.3	 Leadership Assessments: Pros and Cons
	7.5	 Art–Work Balance: What Art Can Bring to You Professional Development?
		7.5.1	 Interview with Dr. Tom Sommerlatte
	7.6	 Energy Management
		7.6.1	 Take Good Care of Yourself
		7.6.2	 How to Become a Corporate Athlete
		7.6.3	 We Are Responsible for Our “Machine” (Body and Mind)
8: Grow as a Leader
	8.1	 Servant Leadership: Think of Leadership as a Service to Your Team
		8.1.1	 Traditional Perspective
		8.1.2	 Leadership as a Service
		8.1.3	 Leadership Is a Lifelong Learning Journey
		8.1.4	 Ask Your Team About Your Leadership Service Level
	8.2	 Why We Need to Reduce the Power of Leaders
		8.2.1	 New Leadership Behavior Is Required
		8.2.2	 We Need to Reduce the Power of Leaders
		8.2.3	 Empower the Teams
	8.3	 What Leadership for Self-Organized Teams?
		8.3.1	 Leadership Transformation
		8.3.2	 Leadership Profiles
		8.3.3	 Influencing Skills
	8.4	 Millennial Leaders: How Do They Operate and What We Can Learn from Them?
9: Make a Great Career Start
	9.1	 Career Start: How to Choose Your First Employer?
	9.2	 International Experience: How to Gain It Early in Your Career
		9.2.1	 International Exposure Is a Competitive Advantage
		9.2.2	 Develop Your Inter-cultural Sensitivity
		9.2.3	 How to Acquire International Work Experience?
		9.2.4	 How to Prepare the International Job Search
	9.3	 Are Internal Consulting Firms a Smart Career Option?
		9.3.1	 Internal Consulting/Project Management Office
		9.3.2	 Large-Scale Reorganization Projects
		9.3.3	 Smaller Organization Projects
		9.3.4	 What Are the Key Success Factors of Such a Team?
		9.3.5	 Could This Be a Good Career Move for You?
	9.4	 Use Social Media to Ensure Your Profile Is Visible in the Job Market
	9.5	 Steps to Shoot Your Video CV
		9.5.1	 Content Comes First
		9.5.2	 Technical Equipment for the Shooting
		9.5.3	 Shooting of the CV Video
		9.5.4	 Post-production
		9.5.5	 Publication
10: Conclusion
	10.1	 Career Planning Is an Ongoing Learning Process
	10.2	 Time Matters