When is the best to ask why?

How to find the right momentum to start new things in business?

There are smaller or bigger milestones in our career that we usually realize only in retrospective. Every moment that we live is singular but we are not able to have clarity and self-confidence to design the next step precisely. It is too complicated to put our situation in context and stick to the plan whatever happens. Nevertheless, a good career itinerary always helps to navigate our success and realize the right moments for bigger actions.


In which part of the career cycle I am now?

Let’s focus on the business career though it’s not strictly separable from social life. The progress of a career follows a periodic pattern that offers us the experience of good and bad. It is not that binary phenomenon rather a colorful journey. Much help is needed to understand whether we are in a stagnating phase of there is a booming opportunity just waiting on the doorstep. If the situation is not that disruptive then we are in collecting mode. That means there is enough time to collect more experience with the purpose of self-improvement. The knowledge that we have earned is filtered through personal memories, talks with friends, reading business books and visiting professional training. After the lesson learned comes the exciting moment which enables us to plan and make bigger steps, step up to the next level. When it happens and what that means depends on the person, it is hard to copy anybody else. When we are in this rather rare, disruptive mode, we need to leverage all our energy, be bold and usually, there is no time for hesitation.

The collecting mode

Learning shall be adjusted to our personal character. It is really plenty of opportunities to gain an objective evaluation of our achievement. Corporate culture is transforming to a good trajectory, where the trend is to help the employees to learn relentlessly. To find the right plan for a personal business career is where people management helps more and more. In well-organized business communities, it is widely accepted to enable employees to pick their roles. Of course, it does not happen in a day in reality it takes years. For that, the proper assessment of skills is supported by newer frameworks and applications. This is not about performance rather about the primacy of human values. Which composes a foundational principle that motivates the employee for being more valuable and impactful in the community. In this experience collecting mode, the corporate and every single member of it are in synergy for the purpose of creating clearer and sustainable values.

Managing disruptions

The moments of step-up are rare and those are the milestones for what we are preparing ourselves. With more experience, it’s easier to pick the right time for exposing our energy with a focus on the next career stage. It usually happens in a short period of time and the success mostly depends on how much are we prepared for that. The quality of the preparation count more than the energy that we put into the action. The narrow time doesn’t allow much hesitation but this is the time to ask why we really want to take our business career to the next level. There shall be a clear value, supported by a well-personalized set of goals. And these goals will lead us with energy to be resilient to reach the next stage of success. Questioning why a decision made to enrich the business career gives the meaning of learning, brings all experience together to serve the next goals.

What’s after answering why?

We are living in a cycle and learn more and more about our personal behavior. So does the environment around us, name it a team or people management or corporate culture. Objectivity is very important through along the way of development, which shall be the focus of the collecting mode. Most of our time is spent with collecting and evaluating information and put that in the right context. Most of the time our values are stable providing a good foundation of learning. The learning journey is a balanced and guided passage that the business community supports. During this period the team around and all dedicated HR professionals need to focus on the instruments that assure the best learning. It is not efficient to question relentlessly why we work, why we intrinsically need to step up.

Summary

In the daily business routine, the best is to focus on continuous experimentation. Learning about others, understanding the essence of team behavior and the corporate culture as a whole. There is a living history behind business communities at every scale. Positioning the member of the team in the bigger working group offers a stable way of learning. Collecting information from others and about ourselves objectively. The changing corporate culture, the new learning, and development methods are also reliable and exciting artifacts to leverage on. Finally, when the next moment arrives for career improvement the success depends on how the lesson is learned and the success ratio improves with time. The driving personal values are prone to surprising transformation while managing the change of career and that is the very point to ask ourselves why the change is needed?


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