Are you ready to reinvent your work life?

Inside you excited at the prospect combined with fear and uncertainty about making this change. Whatever your motivation for reinventing yourself at work, here are 5 tips on how to reinvent yourself at work:

TIP #1 – UNDERSTAND ‘WHY‘ YOU WANT TO REINVENT YOURSELF

For reinvention to be successful, it is important to identify your why – what is the benefit you are going to achieve through transforming yourself?

 This ‘WHY’ is what you will come back to when things get tough on your journey, when you would rather be watching Netflix than changing yourself.

Things to consider are: 

• Why is change important to your future?
• What do you think is missing from your work life, that the transformation will resolve?
• How is your job going to be impacted either in the current or future space?
• Why is your current work life leaving you unfulfilled? 

TIP #2 – CREATE A FUTURE WORK VISION

What does your future work or career look like?

This is a fun creative exercise to help you refine, what your work direction is.

Things to consider are: 

• • The direction can be 12 months, 18 months, 5 years – be aware the longer the timeframe the likely the direction is going to change
  • Examine the tangible (eg type of role, $$$, location, type of organisation) and intangible (what skills do you want, what success means to you)
  • What difference do you want to make with your work?
  • What are your current skills?
  • What skills do you need for the future?

You can write this down in something like OneNote or develop your own vision board complete with images.

TIP #3 – BREAK DOWN THE BIG VISION INTO SMALLER SUB-VISIONS

What does your future work or career look like?

With an end destination in mind, you can now break your future vision into smaller sub vision achievements.

Make these targets smaller enough that they can be achieved with a small amount of effort and time.

TIP #4 – BE AGILE: ADAPT AND CHANGE

On your reinvention journey you are going to grow and change. The vision you have for your life today may not be the vision you have in 6 or 12 months.

Adopting an agile approach to your journey is so important – so that you don’t get to end and think “this is not what I want now”.

In practical terms this means:

• Focusing on activities that add value to your journey
• If something is not working for you, then either change it or stop it
• Hold mini retrospectives/reviews every month – examine what is working and what isn’t
• Always be thinking – is there a better way to achieve my future vision

TIP #5 – HAVE FUN

Make reinventing yourself fun.

Try not take the change too seriously and suck all the joy out of the experience.

It is important to make whatever you are doing enjoyable. It is too much like hard work, you are not going to do it.

How to make your re-invention journey more enjoyable:

• Include creative activities in the mix
• Think outside your normal life and try something new
• Embrace failure – it is going to happen
• Get outside and enjoy the outdoors
• Challenge conventional thinking about your career journey