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Zusammenfassung von Pivot

Name: Pivot
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Author: Jenny Blake

Jenny Blake

The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One

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What’s in it for me? Don’t waste time and money waiting for the right career to come to you.

Maybe you’re dissatisfied with your current position and are looking to start a new company. Maybe you want to transfer to a new position within your firm or even change industries. Perhaps you’re a manager who wants your employees to be satisfied and productive.

Regardless of which of these might apply to you, you probably know that making a major shift in your career direction can take time, and – if done badly – can be very expensive.

But it needn’t be. The following blinks will teach you how to pivot. There are four steps involved: plant, scan, pilot and, finally, launch. There’s also a fifth element, lead, if you’re a manager looking to apply these useful lessons for your own employees.

Join Jenny Blake as she shows you just how easy and efficient changing careers can be.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

how a failed bondage-teaching enterprise became a helpful stepping stone;
how often the average American changes jobs; and
what’s so special about the cheese counter at Whole Foods.

Changing career paths is becoming increasingly common and isn’t something to be afraid of.

We all know the feeling: you’re stuck in a rut in your job, but you’re too scared to switch things up and get out. After all, it might well put your finances at risk. Perhaps your family and friends have expressed concern at your desire to change tracks. They might even say it’s some sort of age-related crisis.

But guess what? It’s perfectly normal for you to feel that way.

These days, it’s quite normal to have multiple careers. Few people stay at the same company for their entire working lives before retiring – things just don’t work that way anymore.

In fact, the average American employee stays in one position for just four to five years.

Adam Chaloeicheep is a case in point. Chaloeicheep was once creative director of a real estate development company in Chicago, but, burnt out, he left his job and headed off to Thailand to study meditation.

Eight months later he was back. His mind was clear. His passions for fashion, technology, entrepreneurship and brand strategy would now guide him. He went back to school to broaden his skill set and then started his own company, ABC Design Lab. Fulfillment and financial success followed soon after.

Yes, Chaloeicheep’s story is a little on the extreme side. But it’s indicative of a broader trend.

A recent Gallup poll showed that up to 90 percent of employees are either “not engaged” or “actively disengaged” from their jobs. It’s no great surprise, then, that people are on the lookout for new opportunities.

Crises that make you look elsewhere are in no way voluntary. But you can use that same outward-looking mentality to make a deliberate career shift in a new direction. It’s known as a career pivot, and to do it, you don’t even have to leave your current employer.

Let’s take Amy Schonberger as an example. She felt stuck as a senior creative strategist in a public relations firm, but she wasn’t ready to ditch just yet.

Rather than looking for new jobs, Schonberger started taking responsibility for social media and blogging. Her coworkers weren’t interested themselves. They felt working in social media would damage their reputations.

But Schonberger knew better, and before long, she found herself dealing with the company’s biggest clients. Her status as a social media expert soon led to her appointment to a new, official role: director of digital entertainment.

Pivoting isn’t something you do without planning though. Let’s look now at all the stages along the way.

Step back and define your values so you know what you want to achieve.

It makes no difference whether you want to found a company or if you want to take on a new role at your current firm – change can be overwhelming.

However, you can make things easier by zooming out to get the big picture and thinking about how you want to plant your pivot.

Pivot to your new career by focusing on your strengths and evaluating your financial situation.

Thinking about making a change to your career is almost sure to stoke anxiety. It would for anyone. After all, you’ll be starting from scratch and losing your current regular paycheck.

To deal with this fear while you’re planting your pivot, you’ll need to evaluate your current situation; this is the second part of planting. It implies considering how your current strengths will help you move on and up.

Successful pivoters rely upon a network of mentors and advisors.

Once you’ve got a good idea of the foundations required for a pivot, then it's time to scan for opportunities.

Some people think what’s needed at this stage is a career mentor, someone to dispense expert advice in the long term. But it can be a laborious task finding someone to take on this time-consuming role. But no worries, it’s actually better to work with a series of one-off mentors and experts.

Generate opportunities rather than waiting for them to present themselves.

We all know those people who are a bit too passive in their outlook; they sit around waiting for a miracle to happen.

If you really want to switch things up, however, you need to actively scan for new breaks. And the most successful pivoters are those who look for opportunities related to their strengths.

Before pivoting properly, pilot your ideas with small, low-risk experiments.

You've identified your next big move, and you’ve done it by recognizing your values and finding helpful resources. Now it's time to test out your vision in the third stage of the four-step method: piloting.

The idea here is to seek out ways to pilot small-scale versions of your larger vision. That way, you can determine through experimentation whether your pivot is actually something that thrills you. Based on the results, you can adjust your methods according to your strengths and goals.

Fears involved in launching your pivot can be overcome by setting yourself launch criteria.

Once you’ve evaluated your values for planting your pivot, scanned for opportunities and connections and piloted your putative move, the only thing left to do is launch.

But for some people, fear of failure can keep them from actualizing their pivot in the first place.

Managers can implement the pivot method within their own companies.

What’s so great about the pivot method is that its usages aren’t limited to those pivoting into new careers. In fact, managers can employ it within their own companies.

Although managers rarely discuss career mobility with their employees, a recent Inc. survey found that 51 percent of CEOs identified their biggest challenge as "attracting and retaining skilled employees."

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Pivot (2016) defines the four-step approach for navigating personal career changes and growth. In addition to demonstrating the basic elements of this method, author Jenny Blake shows how it can also be incorporated by managers into their day-to-day business practices.

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Think about your values as life filters, the search criteria that help clarify your priorities.

—Jenny Blake

Wer Pivot lesen sollte

Entrepreneurs or artists planning on making a career change
Anyone who feels stuck in their current job
Recent graduates trying to make the right career choices

Über den Autor

Jenny Blake is a career and business strategist and international speaker who helps people build careers aligned with their talents and interests. After working as the first employee at a political polling start-up in Silicon Valley, she pivoted to training and career development at Google, where she cocreated the Career Guru Program. Blake became a full-time business consultant in 2011. She is also the author of Life After College.

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