Strategic Intent

• How can you develop an entrepreneurial approach to career advancement?
  • Be opportunistic.
  • Diversify, develop new skills.
  • Get closer to your internal customers.
  • Stretch yourself, take risks, try something new.
  • Be more willing to learn from mistakes, learn by doing.
  • Discover what you like by trying it rather than deciding in a vacuum.
• Set aside time for learning and market research - the latter so you can make new decisions about what you need to learn for tomorrow.
• Review your focus annually and make changes as often as needed.
• Network to keep abreast of opportunities as they arise.
• View career planning as an evolving, changing smorgasbord to be continually sampled rather than a final destination to be locked into.
• Regularly review your balance between specialist and generalist.
• Regard your flexibility, your entrepreneurial approach to your career as a strength in a fast changing, complex market, not as a weakness.
• While you may not have a definite career goal in mind, i.e. a specific position, you could have a broader vision of what you want to become?
• What might yours be? Here are a few possibilities.
  • Recognized leader in your field.
  • Widely respected senior executive.
  • Generalist in the XYZ industry.
  • Commercial, operating role at senior level.
  • Internal consultant, interim executive.
  • Innovator.
  • Change champion.
  • Global executive.
• See also page on how to discover what you might like to do next.