Brian Walch breaks down how to redesign your current job by listing out the specific roles and tasks you actually do, then rating each one on how energizing and important it is. Instead of waiting for a new title, you can expand the parts you love and shrink the rest.
Do you want to shape your current job into something more than what it is right now? This article that I wrote for Alaska Business outlines a technique you can use to do just that. It's a useful technique for managers, but it applies to anyone looking to do something more in their current job. The problem is, right now all we have is job titles, and job titles are useful to communicate internally or externally what our responsibilities are. They're also useful to depict how we've progressed in our career and list out on our resume. They can be helpful when we're looking for the next job. We often look for what is the job title I want? But if we want to make changes in our existing job, they're not very useful. So I give you a technique for deconstructing your job into roles. Roles are simply all the granular things you do that are encompassed by your job duties or other duties as assigned. When you have that list, you can then review that and actually make some judgments and some determinations about it. In the article, I give you things you can consider when building your list and then I also give you ways to rate all those different rules, like if they are energizing or important. Depending on what your goals are for your position, you can then rate those roles and gain some insights about how to make your job more what you want it to be. Please read the article and if you find it useful, if you try it out, I would love to hear from you. Thank you.
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