1. How to establish a correct workplace thinking?
Brian Featherstonehow proposed the concept of workplace thinking in the book "Vision", and used 5 numbers to show us different workplace thinking, so what are these five numbers? How to establish the right workplace thinking?
First number: 62
This is the length of each person's working life = 62 - the current age, 62 represents the average retirement age. So if you're 35 now, you have 27 more years left in the workplace, long enough time for you to be less anxious. Our career planning should not be limited to the present or short-term, but should focus on long-term planning and goals, which may be more than 10 years.
Second number: 10,000 hours
Mastering a skill takes 10,000 hours, and by deliberately practicing for 10,000 hours, we can master a new skill that inspires us in the workplace: consciously focus on doing one thing, deliberately practice, and do it to the extreme!
Third number: 40 years old
According to the results of statistics, the wealth that can be earned after the age of 40 accounts for 85% to 90% of your entire life, or your entire career wealth. The choice of workplace is not only based on money, but whether you can make your career go further, focus on long-term planning and goals, and the accumulation of wealth will naturally accumulate gradually.
Fourth number: a lot
We usually have a lot of contacts in our workplace social networks, but how many of these people are worth making deep friends with and becoming real friends, I'm afraid there are not many. What inspires us: For the number of connections in the workplace, it is not the more the better, but more focus on those key networks, from which to get help and value.
Fifth number: several
Workplace supporters are always just a few, such as: your direct leader, your key colleagues, etc. We should pay more attention to and maintain those who have a direct impact on our career development, as our supporters of career development, how many people are there? Consciously maintain these key minorities and get support and help from them.
The workplace is a marathon, not a short-term fast run, we should pay more attention to the long-term planning and goals of the workplace, while doing a good job in the current things, only in this way can we make great progress and progress in our careers. Go for it, boy! Fight, youth!
2. What are the three key workplace fuels?
In his book Vision, Brian Featherstonehow identifies three key workplace fuels in our careers:
The first important workplace fuel: transferable skills
The skills that can be transferred are not distinguished from the workplace position, and are the basic skills and core supporting abilities of the workplace, including: communication, leadership, interpersonal relationship handling ability, etc. In the usual workplace process, we must consciously train and improve our communication, leadership and interpersonal management skills. Communicate well in the process of work, handle the relationship with colleagues and leaders, manage our workplace connections, and let the connections provide us with opportunities or value in the workplace.
The second important workplace fuel: meaningful experience
What is a meaningful experience? For example: try new things, hobbies, etc. Trying new things allows us to accumulate new experiences and bring different experiences and feelings, which will provide us with some help in changing positions in different careers. It is also very valuable to develop our hobbies and interests, especially when our hobbies and interests gradually develop into a second profession or side business, which will bring us greater significance and value.
The third important workplace fuel: lasting relationships
Lasting relationships, including: strong connections, expert panels, etc. Strong links include: family, key colleagues, golden connections, these connections are basically connected every week, and their influence on us is great. The expert group may be some weakly connected network, they have a certain skill, for example: a friend knows the car very well, you can buy a car can consult his opinion, this is the value and significance of the expert group. Of course, we also have to provide value for these lasting relationships, otherwise blindly taking them may affect our relationship.
The workplace can go further, and the three major workplace fuels are very important. In the early stage of our career (10-15 years), we should consciously accumulate these workplace fuels to provide the foundation and fuel guarantee for the rapid and lasting development of our later workplaces. Come on, boy! Fight, youth!
3. What are the four golden problems in choosing a job?
Brian Featherstone, in His Book of Vision, asks the question of how to choose a job, and what are the four golden questions for career development that can help us sort out our purpose?
First, learn
Am I learning to grow in my current workplace environment, position and current state? Learning and growing is our lifelong thing, in the workplace, but also a process of continuous improvement of self, only by learning to improve ability, the workplace is likely to go further, this is the basic condition. Therefore, when choosing a job, you should first consider whether there are opportunities for learning and growth, and whether you can help yourself improve your ability in the workplace, which is the key!
Second, influence
What I do, the profession and work I am engaged in, does it have a relatively large influence on other people, on the company, and even on the industry and society? Do you have this sense of value? Influence is your value to the people around you, to society. In the workplace, how to accumulate their own influence, create value, and bring yourself a greater sense of achievement, value and influence. The workplace is a long-term thing that requires our own continuous efforts and accumulation of value, which produces the influence of the workplace.
Third, fun
I do this, do I feel fun? Do I particularly like it and would like to do it? If doing this work can bring you a lot of fun, then it is more sustainable, and it will also prompt you to do a good job in a more in-depth way, which will form a virtuous circle and further promote our development and progress in the workplace. Fun is important, let us maintain the enthusiasm and passion of the work, better create the value of the work.
Fourth, rewards
Did I get enough rewards for doing this? Of course, this reward is not just your fixed salary, it includes all the rewards such as your bonus, your benefits, your vacation, your equity and so on. Reward factors are external motivators, and if they can be continuously rewarded, they will also promote their continuous efforts and growth in the workplace.
Choosing the right job from the four aspects of learning, influence, fun and reward can make our career path and purpose clearer, let us get more long-term thinking and methods in workplace development, continue to accumulate workplace advantages, and let us go further on the road of career development.
4. How to clarify your workplace ideas?
Brian Featherstonehow proposed some methods and ideas to clarify the workplace thinking in the book "Vision", so how to clarify the workplace thinking and find the workplace path guide?
The first question is, what are your career aspirations?
The question of career ideals may feel a little high, but you can change the question: What is a career goal that you can see, assume, and achieve at this stage? You can try to think about what your career goals are after 5 years, and gradually find your own career direction. With goals to lead us to continuous development and breakthroughs in the workplace.
Second question, what workplace fuel do you currently have?
The goals are clear, so you have to figure out where you are now. Find out what you are doing and where you are, and how far you have to leave the field. Focus on taking stock of your current workplace fuel situation, what skills you can transfer, and what reliable connections you have, these are all very important resources in our workplace.
The third question is, what kind of workplace fuel do you need to achieve this ultimate ideal?
With the goal in mind, we know where we are, so how do we achieve our goals in the workplace? This requires us to think about what kind of workplace ability we need to achieve our goals. We can try to use mind mapping to list workplace goals, write down where you are, think about what workplace competencies or fuels need to be developed and improved, and then translate those skills or fuels into specific lists of actions. Act first, then refine the action plan. Less worry, more action is the basic principle.
Our workplace ideas or goals may be a stage of things, but also a dynamic process, adhere to continuous reflection and learning in order to make our workplace development better, career is a long-term thing, we need to work hard to polish ourselves, improve our ability, it is possible to develop better! Go for it, boy! Fight, youth!
5. How to look at career planning in the longer term?
Career development is a lifelong thing, in fact, it has nothing to do with retirement. The workplace is the cultivation ground for each of us, helping us to continue to grow and hone our personality and quality from the workplace. So, how to take a longer-term view of workplace planning?
First, maintain a lifelong growth mindset and way of thinking
Living to learn from old age, this is not an empty phrase, but a very grounded idea. In the workplace, we still have to maintain a lifelong growth mentality and way of thinking, strive to enhance our workplace competitiveness, be modest and prudent, and create a core competitiveness in the personal workplace. Only such workplace ability can make us go further and more stable. Lifelong growth is not an empty word, it is a very important concept.
Second, set long-term career goals and goals
To cultivate long-term workplace thinking, you can start from formulating long-term career ideals and goals, take long-term goals as the guide, always remind and strengthen the concept and awareness, gradually adjust the views of the workplace, and let the long-term workplace concept be implemented into the behavior and reflected in the details of daily work. Come on!
Third, adhere to the summary and reflection on workplace development, and practice the concept of long-term career development
Deliberately practicing to do one thing well, you can follow the 3F principle, focus on career development, and get feedback from colleagues, leaders, friends, etc., so as to correct your workplace behavior, through continuous summary and reflection on workplace development, practice long-term career development concepts, implement into every small thing, and reflect long-term workplace concepts and values from the details.
Life is a marathon, the workplace is also a long run, therefore, we do not have to be discouraged by a moment of dissatisfaction, but also need to work hard and fight for the courage and motivation of the future! Cultivate a long-term way of thinking about the workplace, practice lifelong growth, and continue to work hard in the workplace!
6. What are the three major stages of professional career?
Vision proposes three major stages of a career:
The first stage: adding fuel and making a strong start
This stage can last for 10-15 years. What should be done at this time? It's about keep trying, keep exploring. In the process, it can be full of trial and error. But it doesn't matter, because it's a process of reserve, it's a trial-and-error process, it's a process of letting yourself know for yourself what you really like, what you don't like, what you're good at, what you're not good at, what you can't do. It can help you discover yourself, locate yourself, and find your workplace sweet spot.
The second stage: anchor the sweet zone and focus on the longboard
At this stage, we must anchor the field that we are best at, do this field to the extreme, and make ourselves really become an expert in this field. How much workplace fuel you have accumulated while doing this career, and how many transferable skills you have, can make us go further in the workplace.
The third stage: workplace closure and summary
The final stage may be a stage near the end, the end of the career, close to retirement, and even after retirement to play residual heat. So what is this stage called? It's called optimizing the long tail and exerting a sustained impact. At this time, perhaps the focus of your work is no longer to forge ahead, no longer to create, but to cultivate new people, bring a group of juniors, or play some role in other fields.
The three stages of the workplace provide a good reference for our workplace development, so that we can more clearly know the stage of the workplace we are in, and what we should do in this stage, as well as the development direction and ideas of the future workplace, so that we can have a clearer workplace positioning, which can help us face the workplace development more calmly. Less worry, more action, this is the first criterion of workplace development, let's take action now and start our own career development road! Come on!
7, how to understand: the secret of proficiency is willingness and time
How can I become proficient in a skill or job? What elements are needed? Brian Featherstonehow argues in Vision that the secret of mastery is willingness and time. How to understand this sentence?
First, willingness is intrinsically driven
Each of us has an intrinsic motivation to do things, and that is the will. When we are more willing to do something, the enthusiasm and time invested will be very large, the input will be higher, and the output will be higher. Therefore, if you want to be proficient in a certain skill or job, willingness is the foundation, and only a strong enough willingness will make us more engaged, otherwise, we can only cope with things.
Second, time is the accumulation of skills to improve
Willingness is the foundation, and then persistence in investing time, which is a necessary condition. Only willingness, no time investment, and inability to master a certain skill or job. Of course, having the will will will also lead us to invest more time and energy. Time in the process of skill improvement is an accumulation variable, just like the 10,000 hours law, when the accumulation reaches a certain level, it is possible to master. Therefore, time is a necessity.
Third, deliberate practice elevates proficiency to proficiency
Deliberately practicing the 3F principle effectively helps us to upgrade the original skill to become proficient and become an expert in a certain skill. The most important thing about deliberate practice is feedback and correction, focusing on many people can do, but to get effective feedback and correction methods, there is a certain degree of difficulty and skill. Therefore, we must value feedback and corrections in the process of practicing skills or work, which can allow us to do better and even become experts in a certain skill.
Willingness and time are necessary conditions for mastery, and deliberate practice is the catalyst. Finding your own will, investing your time, and sticking to deliberate practice, I believe it's only a matter of time before you become proficient in a certain skill or job. Come on, boy! Go for it, youth!
8. How to measure, find and anchor your workplace sweetness zone?
Career development is a long-term career, we need to find and anchor in the workplace sweet area, give full play to our strengths and enthusiasm, and make our career development better. In his book Vision, Brian Featherstonehow proposes the second stage of career development: anchoring the sweet zone of the workplace and accelerating career development and upgrading.
How do you measure, find, and anchor workplace sweet spots? Are there any specific principles and frameworks? Use what we are good at, what we love and what the world needs, these three dimensions to find and anchor the sweet spot of the workplace.
First, what we're good at
In the process of career development, each of us will form our own strengths and skills that we are good at, and first figure out what we are good at. For example, as a technical developer, I am good at logical analysis, have a good understanding of Internet preface technology, and have a strong sensitivity to technology. Clarifying our strengths and strengths, it is easier to find the sweet spot in the workplace, and these skill points may become the cornerstone of future workplace development.
Second, what do we love
We are all interested in hobbies, these hobbies are our own hobbies, do not need external motivation, self-motivation is very strong, can be well invested in enthusiasm and energy, to do things well. For example: if we love badminton, then when we play badminton, we will unconsciously invest a lot of enthusiasm and energy to focus on playing badminton. It is very important to find and identify our true interests and hobbies, which requires us to constantly try and experience in the early stages in order to clarify our interests and hobbies.
Third, what the world needs
Our career development, in the end, can bring something to the world or society, which is also the basis and value of our workplace development, can not be closed doors, must go out to understand what the world or society needs. What kind of social pain points we can solve, and what value we can bring after solving them, this is what we should pay attention to. Otherwise, we will fall into the dilemma of self-amusement, always maintain our sensitivity to society, and be aware of the needs or problems around us, which are the needs of the world. What does the world need? We need to constantly perceive and think in order to find the sweet spot of the workplace that suits us.
What we are good at, what we love and what the world needs, from the above three dimensions to find and determine the discovery of our future workplace development, anchor the workplace sweet area, is conducive to a long-term workplace career, invest time, energy and enthusiasm in the workplace sweet area, more conducive to the development and success of the workplace! Come on, boy! Fight, youth!
9. What are the fuels in the analysis of your own workplace?
What about workplace fuels? In the book Vision, we are shown three key workplace fuels:
The first important workplace fuel: transferable skills. (Communication, leadership, interpersonal processing skills)
The second important workplace fuel: meaningful experience. (Try new things, hobbies)
The third important workplace fuel: lasting relationships. (Strong connection, expert panel)
Combined with their own actual situation, examine their own workplace fuel:
First, transferable skills
At present, I am growing continuously in terms of communication and leadership, and lead my friends to practice non-violent communication, improve my communication ability, and lead partners to practice time management and self-growth in leadership. On the other hand, further read books on communication and leadership, such as Critical Dialogue, Replicable Leadership, Silent Leadership, Horizontal Leadership, etc., and gradually improve your communication and leadership through the above learning and practice.
Second, meaningful experience
Speaking of meaningful experience, first of all, I continued to lead the partners of Easy Efficiency 237 to practice time management, to practice self-growth, and continued to go to 7.0, which is of great help to me in community operation, accumulating a lot of experience in community operation and online communication. Secondly, as the reading ambassador of Fan Deng Reading, promote and influence more people to join Fan Deng Reading, and consciously train their marketing and communication skills. These experiences have a greater role in promoting their future entrepreneurship!
Third, lasting relationships
Learn and practice the 155 network, continue to connect and strengthen the golden network, strengthen communication and understanding, stimulate personal curiosity, first provide value for each other, change the original passive network connection and communication, improve their initiative in networking, better expand the network, and create lasting relationships.
The amount of workplace fuel directly affects how far we can do in the workplace, so we must pay attention to and consciously train and cultivate our own workplace fuel, so that we can get more fuel and motivation in workplace development, so as to support us to go further! Come on!
10. What are the goals of reflecting on your career development? Future career development plans?
Each of us has to have goals and plans in the workplace, otherwise we will be like headless flies bumping around and have no workplace results to speak of. So what are your goals for your career? What is the future of workplace development planning?
First, family happiness, career has greater value and significance
The workplace is a part of our lives, so we should look at the development of the workplace from the perspective of life development. The first thing to pursue is family happiness, and only a good family atmosphere can support the continuous development of our career. If the family has a problem, it is difficult to have a bigger breakthrough in the workplace! In addition, when your career is successful, your family is already fragmented, and your career success is difficult to bring happiness in life. So family happiness is the foundation.
Second, the basic freedom of time, to achieve greater leaps and breakthroughs
If we are busy with work every day and don't have time to think, then our career is very scary. It's like a mechanical repetition every day, without thinking and growing, blindly working and living. Such workplace experience is also meaningless. Therefore, I have always opposed 996, I hope that my career can be basically free of time, have time to accumulate new experience, have time to think and reflect, examine the current career and work content, explore greater development and possibilities, and truly achieve qualitative leaps and breakthroughs!
Third, fundamental financial freedom, experiencing different lifestyles, and pursuing higher values and meanings
Family happiness, basic freedom of time, time to do what you want to do, to make life more fulfilling, not just work or the workplace. The workplace is to serve life, not to carry life forward. For the higher goal of the workplace is to achieve basic financial freedom, not to be restricted by financial situations, personal cognition and development, have the wealth and ability to experience different lifestyles, let yourself see different lifestyles and different lives, and pursue higher values and meanings.
Workplace development is ultimately to serve life, and life comes from life, so workplace planning is closely related to life goals. Use life goals to guide workplace planning, make workplace development more grounded and more realistic, so as to play a greater value of workplace planning.
【My Feelings】
After reading this book, the biggest feeling is that my career still has decades to go, I did not have such a deep understanding before, I am 32 years old, 62 years old, there are still 30 years. Wow, it's been a long time. How to better plan career development is not simply to do a good job, but to pay more attention to the accumulation of workplace fuel and cultivate transferable skills. In addition, for career development, I am more patient, focusing on discovering and cultivating my own workplace sweet zone, stimulating internal motivation, continuing to focus on hard work, and determined to become an expert in this field.
【My Thoughts】
1. The career time is longer, so inspire yourself to pay more attention to accumulating workplace transferable skills: communication, leadership, interpersonal relationship processing skills, etc.; accumulate meaningful workplace experience; build lasting interpersonal relationships, and build a personal team of experts.
2, when choosing a specific job or occupation, you can use four golden issues: learning, influence, fun and rewards, to determine the work or occupation that is more valuable to you, rather than simply choosing a job from the salary level, you must have a long-term perspective on our career.
3, the three stages of the workplace, pay attention to the accumulation of workplace fuel, this order may last for 10-15 years, find our workplace sweet area, anchor in it, continue to focus on efforts, determined to become an expert in this field, provide enough support for their career development, let us go further in the workplace, stronger ability!
【My Plan】
1. What are the abilities to analyze your own workplace fuel?
2. What is the goal of reflecting on your career development? Future career development plans?
3. Analyze the value of your current career.