Career Secrets: How To Break The Deadlock?

Your network is your own mirror, and you should pay attention to what it reflects.

If you want to make changes, let your contacts face the future.

The bad news is that you will need to establish networking as a priority, but we have limited time.

The good news is that once you start building contacts, such as having lunch with former colleagues or old classmates, it's like running, and you won't be able to stop.

Many successful managers and professionals return to business school in the middle of their careers. They are mainly looking for direction rather than hone leadership skills.

Many people are stuck in their careers.

They are looking for direction and support and look forward to making a long awaited pformation in the near future.

However, their resources have been dragging them back to the past, and they have not even realized this.

In a class discussion, I suddenly realized that we were analyzing an outstanding functional expert (Harris), who was responsible for recruitment, appointment, training, reward, assessment and so on. He was sent to a leading business school to learn the integrated management course. The company promised to let him take charge of profit and loss management after he finished his study.

But this promise has never been realized. Harris is in a dilemma: he is fed up with the work that he can do with his eyes closed, but he must be loyal to companies and mentors who offer many opportunities. He does not realize that his current position is the most beneficial to all bosses.

He has been increasingly frustrated because he has been doing the same job: he has put more time to produce more than expected results and sought more advice from his company.

At first, my students were very strict with Harris. He thought he had no sense of security, risk averse and passive.

He should negotiate hard or leave.

No headhunter can easily provide you with the perfect opportunity.

He should be more self-conscious, and all introspection would be useless.

What broke the stalemate? The introverted Harris did not follow his natural instinct. Instead, he concentrated his energies on building "external" relations, so that he could objectively examine the trend of shaping his industry, widen his vision of possible career choices, meet people like him, but try to break away from highly specialized fields, and finally see a different self, and then understand that his mentor may always view himself in a constant perspective.

Most of the "Harris" people I met were rich.

But it is mainly confined to the insiders.

They find that these connections are effective in the following aspects: exchanging information related to work and doing well on their own.

(by traditional definition), and finding excellent talents to form a team.

However, the connections in such businesses will also stagnate: they will not provide qualified personnel for different future positions, because they themselves do not cross the comfort zone.

Expand your contacts outside the team, departments and even outside the industry.

Seek outside professional knowledge and skills.

Try to understand the "office politics" of higher level promotion.

Try to get to know your superiors, or at least two of you.

Moreover, they often live in different units or areas, even if they do this will make you feel that it is a means to achieve their goals.

Take part in major initiatives and make efforts to contribute, so you have reason to see them.

Strive to improve your popularity, not just to work hard.

Let the outside see you.

Use what you learn from outside to build relationships with people who are different from you, and increase the value of your business results.

It's two different things to understand who thinks your destiny is important and what you can achieve.

Find out your market value.

Search for like-minded people.