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How to Keep Your Career Moving Forward Through Changing Times

By | Dorie Clark | Duke & Columbia Business Prof; Ranked #1 Communication Coach; HBR Author; Top 50 Business Thinker in World – Thinkers50

Thank you so much for joining me on another edition of my LinkedIn newsletter! This week, I’ll be featuring the wisdom of Lindsey Pollak, author of Recalculating.

This newsletter also serves as a reminder, because later today at 12pm EDT/9am PT/5pm GMT, I’ll be talking with Tony-nominated broadway producer Rachel Sussman about identifying and nurturing creative projects on my weekly Newsweek show, Better. Rachel and I will be taking questions from the audience live, so bring yours! If you’d like a calendar reminder for today’s interview, click here.

It goes without saying that this year has proven to require a fair amount of recalculating for many of us in our careers. It has required millions of people to put their plans on hold in both our personal and professional lives. If you are trying to figure out how you can stay on track for your long-term goals, I recommend checking out my brand new course on LinkedIn Learning: How to Set Goals When Everything Feels Like a Priority.

Speaker and author Lindsey Pollak wrote the book that she wished she had for herself at the beginning of the pandemic. She accomplished this in a miraculous matter of months from conception to publication! Initially inspired by her car’s GPS mantra – “Recalculating…” – here are just a few methods and tips she offered on how we can reinvent our career path and stay productive regardless of the pitfalls that may appear. To hear our entire discussion, you can view the replay of our conversation here.

Defeating feelings of malaise and inactivity:

“I am a huge fan of accountability partners. I have certain friends where we have agreed, informally or not, when we are bored, when we are unmotivated, to text each other. And I have one friend, Alana, who is my guru self-help partner. And I’ll say, “Alana, I can’t do anything. I can’t do anything, I’m miserable.” And she’ll either say, “You know what? Sit in it for an hour, go watch a Netflix show.” Or she’ll say, “Come on, Linds, You promised you were going to get that book chapter done. You’ve got to do it. You’ve got to do it.” My mom and I used to have something, especially when I was in high school and college, she called it sandwiching, which is, I would call her before doing something scary or annoying or irritating, and then I would call her after I did it. That made the thing a little less scary and bothersome.”

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