3 Futureproofing Keys to Your Success
From my experience in the HR space over twenty-five-plus years, I’d say as few as 2% of global workers have a future plan or career plan.
Following a tough journey back to clarity after losing my way, I started a consulting business (during the GFC) from a laptop in a one-bedroom apartment in Washington DC – a city I had only known from a best-practice HR & Branding Conference and from the nightly news that beams around the world. I used my professional branding, change, recruitment and leadership skills to engage with clients around the world.
Over the next eleven years, that business would allow me to help thousands of executives, professionals, leaders and women to futureproof their careers, leadership, organisations and lives. I would help them to navigate the ever-changing external environment while remaining centred and aligned with their internal purpose, and amplifying their positive impact and contribution.
You need to futureproof now.
We need to futureproof because of the state of today’s new world, because of the major shifts and the common and constant career challenges, and because of our confusion about who we need to be and what happens if we make reactive choices.
People have evolving expectations when it comes to the Future of Work, and we are crying out to make more impact in our careers. There are an increasing amount of career options and that can make things even more confusing and complex. We have an addiction to ‘overworking and underselling’, and learning, fixing and bettering ourselves. In many cases, these hold us back and diffuse and diminish our impact.
No one is perfect. No one. And what’s more, it’s more impactful if you aren’t. Who you are is enough but, when actioned, there are three keys that will unlock the impact you are craving to make. Through them, you’ll connect to your best whole self (some for the first time in your careers and lives), your values, and discover your superpowers, your big aspirations and goals. You’ll get clear on you, your potential and the future you want to create. You’ll look forward to the future and you will plan aligned, agile options. You’ll develop a unique brand and value that build your confidence and contribution. From this strong, stable foundation, you will take action with authenticity and alignment to amplify your positive impact. You will build your courage and you’ll activate some of the highest value strategies that are proven to help make more impact in your career.
I’ve been in your shoes and sat side by side with thousands of executives and professionals as they’ve stepped into their bigger impact.
After years of coaching and mentoring individuals and conducting hundreds of workshops, I’ve found one thing to be true…
… you can make more impact in your career, but you have to step into it.
Three keys unlock the doors and using them opens up a whole world of more aligned, impactful opportunities that amplify your career and impact.
3 Futureproofing Keys to Your Success
1. Authenticity
Being yourself and bringing your whole self to work can be much harder than it sounds. You need to unlock your best you and your personal brand so you can be yourself authentically and be true to your values in increasingly challenging and changing times.
2. Alignment
You want to make a big difference in your career and world. You need to embrace your Career Purpose and match your unique superpowers with what is valued in the market and world, now and in the future. You need to develop multiple future career options in alignment with your vision and goals and ensure your personal brand is in alignment and valuable in the future, so you can adapt as, and when, the world changes.
3. Activation
You need to get into your power zone and focused on the highest value and highest impact priorities to amplify your impact. When you step in and activate these priorities, you are far more impactful, influential, adaptive, growing and valuable.
Amplification
The combination of these three keys unlocks amplification.
AUTHENTICITY + ALIGNMENT + ACTIVATION = AMPLIFICATION OF YOUR IMPACT
It’s like binoculars – until you get the combination right, you can’t see clearly. Once you have that combination for you, you can see miles into the distance, further than you ever imagined and it’s magnified.
Clarity, confidence, courage and contribution are all amplified and the person is fulfilling their purpose, potential and making a bigger, more amplified impact.
I have seen this thousands of times. When people unlock the combination to being authentic, in alignment with the future and the future they want to create, and strategically activating the highest value actions, they amplify their impact X10.
What’s more, its more effortless. It just flows. Opportunities come to them. It’s that perfect pitch that you can hear for miles. It’s a joy to see, hear and to be around. These people are in their power zone; they are doing what they were born to do and be. They are loving their work and life. The impact amplifies and attracts purposeful career and contribution opportunities.
But you have to step in. If you are waiting for someone to recognise your great work and contribution, and to come and pick you, you may be waiting all your career and life! The world and work continually change and you know the consequences are coming. Waiting won’t work.
Your career and impact are far too important for that.
Are you ready to make that step? Learn how to uncover all three keys in my book: Futureproof You: 3 Keys to Reimagining Your Career and Amplifying Your Impact in the New World of Work
Confront Your Reality
Do a quick check-in. Are any of the following statements true for you?
I want a meaningful, impactful, fulfilling career.
There is more to my career, leadership and life.
I have more to give.
I am overwhelmed with expectations, roles, workload and/or options and I can’t see a clear path for what’s best anymore.
I don’t have a career or future plan.
I am not feeling my whole self at work.
I don’t want to sell myself or to be ‘cut down’.
I don’t know how to brand myself authentically to be more influential, impactful and valuable.
I don’t want to regret not making the impact I could have.
I am driven to achieve, contribute and be a role model.
I have a need to maintain my livelihood and lifestyle (and others); I want to maximise my value, worth and impact.
Something needs to change but I don’t know what or how.
Yes? Then it’s time to Futureproof You.
You can BE MORE.
You can MAKE MORE IMPACT IN YOUR CAREER.
You can be your AUTHENTIC, WHOLE SELF and BE VALUED MORE FOR IT.
You can ADAPT and MAXIMISE YOUR VALUE & FUTURE in an ever-changing world.
Learn how you can go about making a change in my book: Futureproof You: 3 Keys to Reimagining Your Career and Amplifying Your Impact in the New World of Work