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Personal Strategic Plan

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How do you create a personal strategic plan? How do you live your life with purpose and direction?

1️⃣ Determine what you ultimately want to do with your life. My Want: Travel first class, sightsee, and play golf.

2️⃣ Determine how you could get someone to pay for that, so you don’t have to. My Plan: Companies pay for a day-long visit of coaching, speaking, and training. I stay in that area for a week, sightseeing and golfing.

3️⃣ Determine what you have to look like for someone to pay for that. My Expectation: Companies will pay for a published #author and accomplished #speaker with a #PhD, strong business #experience, and #certifications, who had a strong #network of connections.

4️⃣ Determine the gap between where you are and how long it will take to get there. My Gap: No degree, never published, only experience in the military, strong military network only, just starting out with Toastmasters, and no certifications. Estimated time to close the gap: 20 years.

Developing your personal strategic plan is really just that simple.

20 years ago, I started on my journey — a journey of living my life with purpose and direction; not on autopilot.

Interested in learning more…message me.

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Spot the risk!

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What’s wrong with this picture? Can anyone spot  the risk? Why do we care about pans in business? 樂

If you’re a cook, or a parent of young kids, you probably noticed the potential issue.

For many, this obvious flaw might have gone unnoticed.

See the handle of the gold pan? See how it protrudes out in front of the stove?

This presents a potentially unsafe situation. Someone could easily bump the handle and knock the hot pan and its contents onto themselves or the floor. A child, being ever inquisitive, might reach up and grab the handle.

So, to be safe, you keep the handles turned to the side to help prevent an avoidable bad situation.

Why is this important in business?

How often do you take the time to study your company and assess your potential risks?

Do you have any pans on the stove that might be accidently bumped and burn someone?

Disaster, crisis, and risk management is a very important part of running a business. Unfortunately, business owners often have trouble seeing the forest through all the trees.

Annually, a business should examine its company and the environment, identify risks, determine likelihood and impact, and establish mitigation strategies.

Are their any pans protruding in your business?

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Connections on Social Media

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🧐 How do you grow your connections 👥 professionally on social media? 🤔

What do you mean, “professionally?”

Not all social media connections are created equal. Aside from friends, family, and coworkers, you should pick and choose wisely when building your network.

Often, we simply start adding connections from the recommendation list the platform provides us. It’s easy, but not the best way.

You want to be connected to people that actively use the social media platform. These are the people that engage on topics that you like to talk about.

Find a person, business page, or group that has a lot of connections, is active on the platform, and is aligned to your train of thought.

Find a post from them with a lot of engagement (Likes and Comments). These people obviously like the same thing you like and they are active on the platform.

These are the people you want to send connection requests to.

Chances are they will also engage with you. And, that’s the kind of professional connections you really want.

How do you connect with the right people on social media?

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You Need A Career Coach

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Out of work and struggling to find a job?

Looking for another job, but still working today?

You’re not alone these days. The job market has improved and people are finding it harder and harder to even get a response from companies when they post for jobs.

Let’s face it, getting a new job is a fulltime job, especially when you’re currently out of work.

As a Coach that specializes in this area, these are the things I tell my clients to consider:

🔭 Research. You have to research all the companies you are interested and the types of jobs they offer. This will give you an idea of levels, requirements, and opportunities. When I look, I tailor every resume to the job. This means fully understanding their mission, vision, culture, and the challenges they might be facing.

🚧 Construct. You need to build your “resume fodder” that best displays your talents and work history. You create a general resume and additional material to use for responding to each requisition individually. Spent a long time in one job or had a period out of work? Consider a Functional Resume over Chronological — I spent 21 years in the Air Force and it was easier to depict my capabilities functionally than chronologically when I retired from active duty.

☎️ Network. Establish at least one strong face-to-face connection in each of the companies that you’re interested in applying with.  You need to leverage this internal connection every time you apply for a job with that company. My first job, out of the Air Force, happened because someone put my resume in the system — I didn’t even apply! These people can get you in front of hiring managers, tell you about jobs that haven’t even been posted, and possibly can get you details about the job and challenges that area of the company is facing.

💻 Respond.  You need to have alerts set up with companies you like and you need to be on jobs systems like Indeed (#1), LinkedIn (need a Premium account), Glassdoor, etc. every day! As soon as a job is posted that you like, do two things: 1) Tailor your resume and apply immediately. 2) Contact your contact(s) in the company with the job requisition you applied for and a copy of the resume–they can probably figure out who the hiring manager is. In my last company, three times I sponsored someone for a job and they never showed up in front of the hiring manager. Because I had referred them, they did a by-name request and pulled the person into the interview process — all three were hired!

🗣 Interview. All too often, people who get to the interview stage, blow it! If you make it this far, now you are only competing with an average of two to eight people. This is your opportunity. You need to be fully prepared and practiced or you will not perform well. As a hiring manager for years, I’ve seen it all — even one interview where a fellow interviewer was drawing a train going off the tracks on his interview sheet. Each job has it’s own best approach, and you have to plan for it.

🎀 Follow-up. With ever interview, you need to “tie a bow on it.” At the end of the interview, if you want the job, Say It! Few people ask for the job in the interview. After the interview is over, follow-up via email and/or LinkedIn with a thank you…even of you don’t want this job. I’ve had interviews for jobs where I really wasn’t interested or the best fit. However, that didn’t mean I wasn’t a good fit for another opportunity they hadn’t even posted yet! Also, thank the Recruiter that worked with you. They know about all the job openings and might “keep you warm on the stove” if you’re someone they like.

If you’re struggling with finding that next job, consider hiring a career coach. Someone that has been on both sides of the hiring aisle and can really help you. Typically, for normal business professional positions, a coach costs about $100 to $200 an hour and will charge an hour or two of work on your resume. Executive hiring coaches typically charge up to ten times this. Mainly because the salary range and bonus/benefit structure is so much more lucrative. They also have a network and connections that make them very effective.

If you’re looking for a career coach, I work with people mainly looking for business professional and Director / Manager positions. I’m very successful at working with these people to get them hired.

Check out my pages on LinkedIn or Facebook: Crosscutter Enterprises or www.crossctr.com for more information.