Has Your Career Derailed?

Dr. Frankel, in her book "Overcoming Your Strengths, 8 Reasons Why Successful People Derail and How to Get Back on Track provides the following reasons why people maybe letting their strengths be their downfall.

Reason 1. Overlooking the Importance of People
Strategy: Build strong one on one relationships.
We build our reputations early in our careers on competence. We remain successful, however, based on a combination and the eight reasons listed here.

Reason 2. Inability to Function Effectively in a Work Group
Strategy: Become an integral member of your team.
People who create strong support systems consisting of relationships with individuals may derail due to their inability to participate as members of task forces or project teams.

Reason 3. Failure to Focus on Image and Communication
Strategy: Capitalize on the power of perception.
Research shows that a full 90% of the impression you make is based upon how you look (50%), how you sound (40%) and what you say (10%). A rule of thumb in business is that you should not dress for the job that you have, but rather dress for the one you want.

Reason 4. Insensitivity to the Reactions of Others
Strategy: Craft a winning personality.
A pleasing personality includes having self-confidence and insight into how you affect others, relating to all kinds of people and making them feel easy around you, knowing that you don't control everyone and everything, striving to act with integrity at all times, treating others the way you would want to be treated and acting graciously even in the most difficult situations.

Reason 5. Difficulty Working with Authority
Strategy: Learn how to manage up.
Managing up means that you are aware of the need to cultivate a relationship with management that produces satisfactory results for both parties.

Reason 6. Too Broad or Too Narrow Vision
Strategy: Balance detail organization with strategic thinking.
To avoid derailment become good at both. Don't sacrifice close attention to detail for broader, more strategic thinking and vice versa.

Reason 7. Indifference to Customer or Client Needs
Strategy: Develop a "Can-Do" attitude.
People who avoid career derailment go above and beyond the obvious job requirements or requests - they anticipate needs and meet them without being prodded.

Reason 8. Working in Isolation
Strategy: Network for success.
With the proliferation of information technology, and the increasingly popular movement towards team-based efforts, individuals are no longer expected to perform their job responsibilities in isolation. Today's sales rep is expected to function interdependently with a large base of information accessible through his or her relationships with others.

In conclusion, until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiatives (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.

Consider your strengths and take steps to break old patterns and overcome them. Life is too short not to get the success you deserve.

Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D.
LPFrankel@corporatecoachingintl.com
(http://www.corporatecoachingintl.com)
626-405-7310 (phone)
626-405-7312 (fax)

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