Project Plan Your Career
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If you don’t know where you are going, any path will take you there. So, first, you need to define what you want. Look into your future and think about your ideal life, taking your desires and skills into account.
Define your Dream Job
If you don’t know where you are going, any path will take you there. So, first, you need to define what you want. Look into your future and think about your ideal life, taking your desires and skills into account.
After considering what they really wanted from their careers, here is how several people started their personal career plans:
- Joel is skilled at managing projects for a leading technology company. He knows he can ascend here but his dream is to manage projects while traveling the world. He does not have the money to quit his job so he has to stay put. Joel created his career plan so he could get the most from his current position. He identified activities that would give him experience managing international projects and it defined the skills he needed to start his own consulting company.
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- Catherine is a team member on a key project. She wants to become a project manager and lead teams for a different company, one that contributes part of its income to charity. Her personal development plan identified the project management skills she needed, the path to becoming certified, and companies she would target when she was ready to make her big move.
- Mark is an independent change management consultant with more work than he can handle. His dream is to assist as many companies as possible by promoting Change Management worldwide. That would require him to hire administrative staff and at least three skilled Change Management practitioners. He also needs a bookkeeper, accountant and a contracts lawyer. Those are the major milestones that he defined in his career plan.
- Christy manages a group of project managers and really likes what she does. Her dream is to create a centralized Project Management Office where Project Managers are supported as they develop both hard and soft skills. Her company will never support centralized project management. In her career plan she defined the companies that she will target and the skills she needs to direct a successful Project Management Office.
Plan Your Dream Path
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This is your life plan, so take advantage of Project Management Plan templates and tools to create documents that you can refer back to. When your dreams change, and they do, revise your life plan, just as you would add a change of scope to your Project Plan.
Trello is a tool I use because it and I am so visual. I use it for all my projects. A great source for plan templates is ProjectManagement.com. If you log in with your PMI account credentials, it gives you access to premium content.
Take Action
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1. Share your plan with a trusted friend, mentor, or a personal coach. This will give you accountability for step 2.
2. Take action, one step at time. As long as you are making steady progress, eventually, you will find yourself in your dream job, doing work you love.
If you fall off the wagon and stop moving forward, consider working with a personal coach to get you back on track.
Ensure Accountability
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