It doesn’t matter whether your Bad Boss is an Ego on steroids, beyond incompetent, or a practically invisible nebbish, one thing is guaranteed: your Bad Boss isn’t doing squat to help you accomplish success on the job, much less advance your career.
Your
career is entirely up to you. Period.
No
worries--as long as you have a plan.
A plan
is a big deal, whether it’s a plan to get more accounts, more sales, better
resources, more training. You need a plan.
"There
aren't a whole lot of stories of success from people who didn't have a
plan," says Chris
Ohlendorf, chief talent officer of Versique Search and Consulting in
Minneapolis.
And
while he acknowledged, in speaking with Catherine
Conlon of Monster.com, that “there is always a little bit of luck involved
when someone reaches the corner office… a plan for your career will be a big
part of any success you achieve.”
A plan is easy to put in place:
you start with “What do I want?” Duh. But you still have to write it down. Then
you work out the steps to getting there, assign target dates to each step,
figure out the resources you’ll need along the way. Voila! You have a plan.
Now all
you have to do is work your steps. Because what Mr. Ohlendorf didn’t say in
this interview, but no doubt would, is that a plan is only so much hot air
unless you follow it through with action.
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