CHAPTER 11Negotiate for a Better Role Inside Your Organization: Find a Fit for Your Strengths and Influence
“You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So, you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something—your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.”
—Steve Jobs
In Chapters 7 and 8, you created your Personal Strategic Plan to help you enhance your influence and impact in your current role. In this chapter, we help you create a Personal Strategic Plan designed to help you find a better fit for your strengths within your current organization. Your objective now is to discover a win-win by focusing on the intersection of the organization's needs and your strengths. A win for the organization means that your new role leverages your strengths in a way that better serves the organization. A win for you means that there is a better alignment between what they need you to do and what you want to do.
Your job is to identify the organizational priorities that you have the knowledge, skills, and interests to help solve. The approach we suggest here is to use the Personal Strategic Planning tool we described in Chapter 7, modified for changing roles to contribute to the organization going forward. We've included the tool at the end of this chapter.
Personal Strategic Plan for Role Change
In this version of the Personal Strategic Plan, you'll start with your personal mission, long-term objectives, ...
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