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    Taking Charge: ...Your Future...
    Taking Charge: ...Your Future...
    Taking Charge: ...Your Future...
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    Taking Charge: ...Your Future...

    By Chris Johnson

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    This book is about taking charge of your career, and avoiding a line of least resistance.

    It's over twenty years since people first started to be told by employers, 'it's up to you to manage your own career.' That's precisely what most of us have done - or have we? Too many people follow the line of least resistance when it comes to career choice. They are easily fooled by the milestones on the line of least resistance, and self seduce themselves into thinking that they have a plan.

    This book helps to distil the complex ideas and issues that we all face in our careers and to take away some of the easy mistakes and confusion that goes with any transition. It offers a pragmatic approach that places you back in charge of your career, to help you to see what is best for you and to help to you to act.

    Chris's advice is rich in psychological insight and extensive experience of the real-world challenges of forging a career in today's complex organisational world. The book is both tactical and strategic; a plan for immediate action and a guide for your future.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereBookIt.com
    Release dateApr 26, 2016
    ISBN9781456604936
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      Taking Charge - Chris Johnson

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      Preface- Taking charge

      It’s over twenty years since people first started to be told by employers, ‘it’s up to you now to manage your own career’. And of course, that’s precisely what most of us have done - or have we?

      I for one recognise that, however easy that sounds, the reality of managing my own career is a different proposition. That’s why Chris Johnson’s ideas have always resonated strongly with me. I’ve had the privilege of being coached by him at several stages of my own career. In fact, I’ve gained so much from his help that, a few years back, I urged him to write down some of his thinking so that others could also benefit. And finally, that’s what he has done here.

      As Chris points out, what many people do, me included, is take the path of least resistance when it comes to career choice. Amongst Chris’s gifts is the art of helping people to see the wood for the trees.

      When Chris coached me, he was able to help me distil complex ideas and feelings, taking away some of the fears and confusion that goes with these. Suddenly, the way ahead is clear and it all makes perfect common sense.

      It’s that process which has helped me to ‘take charge’ of my own career, to recognise what’s right and what’s wrong for me and to act accordingly.

      Chris’s coaching arts are rich in psychological insight and are the product of an inquiring, perspicacious mind, and extensive experience of the real-world challenges of forging a satisfying career in today’s complex organisational contexts. His approach is practical as well as strategic. Above all, as the many people he’s coached will attest.

      Chris really cares about helping people to make the right choices for them. After all, he has walked the talk on that in his own career so he knows what he’s talking about. And, with his book to guide you, you are in safe hands.

      Linda Holbeche

      Linda is co-Director of the Holbeche Partnership, a research based development consultancy. Previous roles include Director of Research and Strategy at Roffey Park Management Institute, Research Director of CIPD, UK. Linda is Visiting Professor of Leadership Innovation at the University of Bedfordshire. Linda is author of over 40 research reports and more than 100 articles. Linda specialises in leadership development, and has a strong interest in helping organisations and individuals achieve sustainable high performance. Her career history combines extensive experience and expertise in management and organisational development with a strong track record in leading-edge research.

      Foreword

      A decade ago a good friend of mine said you have a duty to write this down. Eventually, spurred into action by my son who has written and sold his own book at 19 years, I put pen to paper. Actually, to be more accurate, my long suffering friend Amelia typed every word, recreated the diagrams from my artistic sketches, and turned a jumbled mass of notes into something coherent. My family, Rosemary, Simon and Verity, has provided stimulating challenges and the motivation to keep going, as have my colleagues at Kerridge who reviewed, revised and commented on each word. The result is a much more coherent text than I could ever have achieved alone.

      The text is meant to stimulate your thinking, to provide food for thought and to encourage you to take charge of your career.

      Chris Johnson

      Auckland, New Zealand

      April 2011

      About the Author

      Chris has spent over 20 years helping individuals take charge of their career. He has combined a career as HR Director & as a Board Member and Managing Director with being confidant, consultant and coach to hundreds of leaders.

      Originally starting as a qualified sports coach 30 years ago he was one of the first senior managers to experience the value of Executive Coaching in the UK, in the 1980’s, then became a qualified executive coach himself in the 1990’s.

      Chris continues to coach leaders around the world including New Zealand, Europe and the Middle East which he combines with a teaching role on the Executive MBA programme at Auckland University.

      In his spare time he coached his wife Rosemary to be a world rowing champion and become an accredited member of The Association for Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision in the UK and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personal Management.

      About this Book

      This book is for anyone who wants to positively take charge of their career. It is not a self help guide to careers but more of a way of thinking.

      The first chapter introduces the ideas and concepts that underpin the approach.

      The subsequent chapters reflect different career stages.

      Chapter 2 – Early Career

      Chapter 3 – Challenges of Careers and Family

      Chapter 4 – The ‘No Retirement" option

      Chapter 5 – Importance of Networking

      Chapter 6 – 1st 100 days in new role

      Chapter 7 – Staying on track

      I suggest you read Chapter 1, then pick the most appropriate chapter to you. Everyone should read Chapter 5 on networking; it applies at all stages of our career.

      I hope you enjoy the book. Please let me know your thoughts and views via email at chris@kerridgepartners.com

      Chapter 1: The Concept

      It’s your future

      It has been 20 years since Simon graduated. There have been many moves in his career to date. Each one has been successful. So why does this one feel different?

      Another opportunity has recently come up, one of those you can’t resist this opportunities. The person on the end of the phone sounded so convincing, yet Simon just couldn’t get excited about it.

      Whichever way you looked at it Simon’s career had been successful. He had had several promotions, he had moved sectors, moved jobs, but this time he just couldn’t get interested in yet another new opportunity which was going to stretch him, and be an interesting challenge.

      Simon, like so many others, had followed the line of least resistance in his career choices. Each move in isolation made sense. Like many of us, he had his check list of things he wanted from the next role and he could always tick them off: more experience, larger team, interesting challenge and more money were all there.

      But this was the first time he had stopped to ask himself where next? and (perhaps, more importantly) why?

      The key message here is that most of us don’t take time to stop and think through the long term implications of a career move. We rarely start a new role with the end in mind.

      This book is about taking charge of your career and always starting a new role with the end in mind. The alternative is that we follow a line of least resistance in each career choice we make.

      The concept of the line of least resistance is simple and most of us follow it unconsciously in our career choices. We evaluate every career opportunity on the basis of the incremental improvements it will bring, increased money, further promotion prospects, rather than how it fits into a long term plan.

      Everyone can benefit from reading this book and considering how they can take charge of their future career. However, it should be emphasised that this book is designed to stimulate thinking and questioning, it is not a ‘one stop shop’ of pointers, advice or instructions as to what to do and what not to do.

      The models and concepts described here have been well tested over the last decade and on average achieve around a 95% success rate for those that follow the simple, basic steps. Furthermore,

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