| Do any of these scenarios resonate for | | | | be focusing on your fear.First, decide what you really |
| you?You’ve been on a great career path for | | | | want. If change is inevitable, why not ask for what |
| several years, but you’ve hit an advancement | | | | you want? I’m not asking you to “think |
| plateau.You’ve been working in one industry | | | | outside the box”, I’m telling you to |
| since college, but you find yourself thinking about | | | | throw the box out the window and build a new |
| doing something else.Your company has gone through | | | | box.If you know you’re management, VP or |
| a merger, and you feel like there’s a | | | | partner material, but you’ve hit a ceiling in |
| “downsize” target on your back.Seeing | | | | your current position, research the firms in your |
| yourself in any of the above situations means | | | | industry that would welcome your skill-set and |
| you’re contemplating change – on your | | | | experience and network your way in the door.If you |
| terms, or on terms handed to you with a severance | | | | want to go back to school to get a degree that will |
| package. Current conventional wisdom is that each of | | | | give you the credentials to land your “dream |
| us will have three to five careers AND between 10 | | | | job”, put your project-planning skills to work |
| to 12 jobs in our lifetimes, so fasten your seatbelt. | | | | and turn achieving that goal into your #1 project - |
| Change is inevitable.Change is the only constant in our | | | | and see if your company has a tuition-assistance |
| lives. Our bodies change as we grow and age, our | | | | plan.If you find yourself with a merger or downsize |
| lives change as we travel on our career and domestic | | | | bulls-eye on your job description, put your network |
| paths. Human nature resists change - the child in all of | | | | to work to identify opportunities at other companies |
| us wants our world to stay the same, to maintain | | | | that would welcome your skills and experience.The |
| the familiar comfort of predictability - but a more | | | | key here is to focus on positive outcomes – |
| empowering response is to see change as an | | | | don’t let fear immobilize you. Concentrate on |
| opportunity, to embrace change as a growth | | | | what you want, not what you fear.Life is short, so it |
| medium.Change and risk are in many ways | | | | should be sweet. Don’t be afraid of change |
| synonymous – during change, the final result | | | | – turn those forks in the road into adventure |
| isn’t visible. You’re flying blind. Think of | | | | challenges and manifest your own destiny.Casey |
| Stevie Wonder at the helm of a 747 and | | | | Quinlan has successfully managed change through |
| you’ll get a gut feeling for what “flying | | | | several careers - perfomer, photography studio |
| blind” really means!So, here you are, knowing | | | | manager, broadcast producer, broadcast company |
| that change is inevitable but frightened because you | | | | exec, and now Media Relations/PR consultant. Her |
| can’t see where you’re going. The key | | | | company, Mighty Casey Media, works with |
| here is to immerse yourself in the challenge – | | | | technology innovators that change the world. |
| if you’re busy strategizing, you won’t | | | | |