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Hub You - Career Change - Making the Big Leap
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- What you can do now to reduce the likelihood of the risk materialising at all (e.g. through advance planning and research of the option you are pursuing and how to achieve it).
- What can you do to l
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- Will I be able to achieve what I am aiming for?
- What if I don’t earn enough money?
- Will I regret my decision?
One common tool for helping you to decide whether you are right in wanting to change jobs is for you to draw up a list of costs and benefits of making the decision to make a big leap into a new career.
Whilst this approach is useful, it is unlikely to resolve the fears or anxieties you have about making the big leap. In order to help with those, I would suggest the following approach:
1. Make a Risk Assessment of the most significant risks of deciding to change career. In your Risk Assessment, for each potential risk you think of, set out:
– What will be the potential negative consequences if the risk materialises
– How likely you think it is that the risk will materialise (You can either use a scoring scale or else define things in a range of probabilities – e.g. ‘Very likely’, ‘Quite likely’, ‘Possible’ etc.)
– Then give each risk a Priority Rating (e.g. 10 means you need to treat the risk with the highest priority, 0 means it is of no significance at all). Note that in order to assign priority you will need to balance the two factors listed above (potential consequences and likelihood). For example, if a risk is very likely to materialise but the potential negative consequences from it are very small, then that risk probably does not need a particularly high priority. because it will not jeopardise your success even if it materialises
2. Once you have assigned your priorities you need to create a Risk Management Plan, to deal with all the risks but in particular for those risks which you have judged to be of highest priority. In the plan for each risk set out:
- What you can do now to reduce the likelihood of the risk materialising at all (e.g. through advance planning and research of the option you are pursuing and how to achieve it).
- What can you do to li
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Whilst this approach is useful, it is unlikely to resolve the fears or anxieties you have about making the big leap. In order to help with those, I would suggest the following approach:
1. Make a Risk Assessment of the most significant risks of deciding to change career. In your Risk Assessment, for each potential risk you think of, set out:
– What will be the potential negative consequences if the risk materialises
– How likely you think it is that the risk will materialise (You can either use a scoring scale or else define things in a range of probabilities – e.g. ‘Very likely’, ‘Quite likely’, ‘Possible’ etc.)
– Then give each risk a Priority Rating (e.g. 10 means you need to treat the risk with the highest priority, 0 means it is of no significance at all). Note that in order to assign priority you will need to balance the two factors listed above (potential consequences and likelihood). For example, if a risk is very likely to materialise but the potential negative consequences from it are very small, then that risk probably does not need a particularly high priority. because it will not jeopardise your success even if it materialises
2. Once you have assigned your priorities you need to create a Risk Management Plan, to deal with all the risks but in particular for those risks which you have judged to be of highest priority. In the plan for each risk set out:
- What you can do now to reduce the likelihood of the risk materialising at all (e.g. through advance planning and research of the option you are pursuing and how to achieve it).
- What can you do to l
Many people do not realize their own market. Most people think when they open a store that they will sell to someone like themselves. With this mentality, their customers will be just like them because their marketing is targeted to what they like and how they think, so the people who respond will agree with them. But is it not also a limiting factor? How many customers are they excluding with their advertising campaign?And, the hardest question of them all:Do they really want to sell to themselves anyway?I know that
– How likely you think it is that the risk will materialise (You can either use a scoring scale or else define things in a range of probabilities – e.g. ‘Very likely’, ‘Quite likely’, ‘Possible’ etc.)
– Then give each risk a Priority Rating (e.g. 10 means you need to treat the risk with the highest priority, 0 means it is of no significance at all). Note that in order to assign priority you will need to balance the two factors listed above (potential consequences and likelihood). For example, if a risk is very likely to materialise but the potential negative consequences from it are very small, then that risk probably does not need a particularly high priority. because it will not jeopardise your success even if it materialises
2. Once you have assigned your priorities you need to create a Risk Management Plan, to deal with all the risks but in particular for those risks which you have judged to be of highest priority. In the plan for each risk set out:
- What you can do now to reduce the likelihood of the risk materialising at all (e.g. through advance planning and research of the option you are pursuing and how to achieve it).
- What can you do to l
It is amazing how many advertising account executives there are and it is amazing that we even allow them to call themselves advertising account executives because it almost sounds like they are seasoned executives who specialize in advertising and know something that we do not. That is to say most advertising account executives are nothing more than salespeople who have the gift to gab and no real skills in advertising or experience to back up the expert advice that they purport.So often, an advertising account executive will co
2. Once you have assigned your priorities you need to create a Risk Management Plan, to deal with all the risks but in particular for those risks which you have judged to be of highest priority. In the plan for each risk set out:
- What you can do now to reduce the likelihood of the risk materialising at all (e.g. through advance planning and research of the option you are pursuing and how to achieve it).
- What can you do to l
Why write a business plan? There are several reasons why you might want to write a business plan.
1. It is a tool for obtaining financing.
2. It will help unite venture partners in a common goal.
3. It can serve as a feasibility study.
4. It will serve as a goal and blueprint for your new business. Of all of the purposes listed, the last one is the most important. According to the Small Business Administration, 95% of all businesses started, fail within the first 5 years. One of the main reasons for
- What you can do now to reduce the likelihood of the risk materialising at all (e.g. through advance planning and research of the option you are pursuing and how to achieve it).
- What can you do to limit the impact if the risk does materialise (this might for example include having a contingency plan in place for what you will do if the new career does not work out as expected).
You can use your Risk Assessment and Risk Management Plans to help you decide for each risk whether it is a risk that you are prepared to take and use your Risk Management Plan to help you plan and implement step by step actions to help you maintain progress if you do decide to pursue your dream.
If you find it difficult to be objective about what the risks are or about how to manage them, then you may benefit from the support of a coach to help you work through the options and decide what you want to do.
The other element where a good coach may be able to help you is in dealing with your mental inhibitions about taking action – for example by showing you practical techniques to assist you when your motivation is low or when negative thoughts are running through your mind.
It is important to include mental or emotional aspects amongst the risks that you assess, if these are significant for you. For example, one of my clients who decided to create her own business in a creative field identified as one of the main risks:
Risk of feeling lonely and isolated and loss of confidence.
Through discussion in coaching we were able to create simple elements in the Risk Management Plan to help her plan for how to deal with this risk if it arose, including:
- identifying and making use of possible support systems she might use
- deciding not to be over critical of herself if she did start to lose confidence, but to learn from
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