?? 7 Ideas to Cultivate Luck in Your Career ??

A Note on Connection & Trauma

Before I begin this month's newsletter, I want to acknowledge the difficulties our world is facing right now. So many are suffering, uncertain, and scared. We all need more connection in times of happiness and in times of sorrow and fear. Check on your friends and family. Hug a little tighter. Dedicate some time to process, cope, and comfort each other, even on work calls and in professional interactions. May we all find comfort, connection, relief, and a little luck ?? in the coming days.

Unlocking ?? Luck ?? in Your Career

Career success takes a lot of preparation, and maybe a little bit of luck ??. But, mostly preparation and meaningful connection, which leads to confidence, which leads to open doors and opportunities.

During the month of March, we often think of the "luck of the Irish" and four leaf clovers. When it comes to building a meaningful career, I find that behind luck often lies openness to new ideas, desire to grow and improve, getting creative when we hit roadblocks, timeliness of pursuing and discovering opportunities, persistence and not giving up, connecting with new people to gather information, looking inwards to stay true to ourselves through authenticity.

?? If you're looking for new resources, ideas, and opportunities to build your meaningful career, you're in luck! ??

Before we get to this month's recommended resources, would you consider helping me help you? Perhaps this new project will bring about some new luck and opportunity in your own career...

Help Shape My New Online Course for Career Changers

I'm working on building out my first online course on creating a connection strategy for career changers - anyone looking to move up, out, over, or to a new field altogether in their jobs and careers. If you're in the midst of a career change, or recently made one, would you take my quick 10-question research survey to help shape this online course? Your input will help me develop a meaningful and impactful cohort-based live online course on Maven, a new group online learning platform, and you'll get first access to join the first cohort later this year! I love learning and teaching in groups or cohorts because the power of your fellow students can multiply opportunities and grow relationships and professional networks, plus you benefit from the collective experience in the "room".

By the end of the course, you will:

• Create a Plan?- Walk away with a Career Connections Strategy?
• Get Hands-On?- Have workshop time where you will craft intentional outreach messages, dive into research about potential career contacts?and opportunities, prepare/practice for meaningful interactions like informational interviews
• Actually Meet Relevant Contacts for Your Next Career Move -?Make at least one new high quality career connection, using the strategies we'll explore in the course, that will help you make a meaningful career change
• Build Your Network Together, in a Supportive Environment?- Benefit from feedback, support, and career contact introductions from other cohort participants?
• Get Extra Support?- The course may include free coaching time, office hours, free tips/tools to take with you along your career journey, and guest speakers (share your picks in the survey!)

??Planning a career change? ?? Take this quick 10-question research survey to help shape this new online course to be impactful to help you and others make a meaningful career change.

Recommended Reads & Opportunities for Building a Meaningful Career that Unlock Luck

Check out my recommended reads and discoveries on building a meaningful career with preparation, creativity, empowerment, and courage, to uncover luck:

• FirstGen Friday: Careers, Cafecito, & Courage Chat 3/4/22 - Hosted by Propel on Purpose Coach and Founder, Anyelis Cordero, who is holding space to connect for FirstGen professionals. Join here.
• Amid a Labor Shortage, Find a Way to Nurture the Budding Entrepreneurs on Your Team (Inc. Magazine) - "Black entrepreneurs, in particular, are leaving their full-time jobs to devote more time to turning their side businesses into full-fledged companies. Their reasons for leaving include?wanting?more control of their schedules and career growth." Read more to gain perspective on how to unlock new potential and nurture your workforce.
• 6 Strategies for Developing Courage to Have Difficult Employee Interactions (Inc. Magazine) We all face difficult conversations at work. Follow these strategies to face them with a bit more ease and connection.
• High Quality Connections: A Hidden Resource for Human Thriving and Collaboration (Organisations Entwicklung by Jane Dutton, Monica Worline, and Torsten Schmid) "We live in this paradoxical world where we are more technologically connected than ever before in human history, while people feel lonelier and more socially isolated than ever....As organizational practitioners, we can think, imagine, and design with the need for connection in mind. We, however, often get locked into a logic of efficiency and then, in the search for efficiency, drive out moments of connection."
• The #1 Fear Holding You Back from Reaching Your Career Goals - Check out my take on what's holding us back from reaching our career goals, and strategies on how to overcome it.
• Discover my made-up word to cultivate inclusivity and invite diverse perspectives into our daily work. I made a mistake at work a couple of years ago, and after this wake-up call, I came up with a question to make a lasting change with how we collaborate more meaningfully and effectively. Learn more.

Thank You!

Thanks for tuning in. Leave a comment below with your favorite takeaway????, or share your favorite reads and strategies to connect with yourself, and with your career connections, during March, the month of luck ??.

Don't forget to grab your copy of?KNOCK: How to Open Doors and Build Career Relationships that Matter, or give it as a gift to deepen connections in your meaningful career.

Looking to bring more connection to your work team or are you working on building a meaningful career for yourself? Whether it's partnering to create a new professional or leadership training program for your organization,?hosting a KNOCK workshop?to cultivate deeper connection among your team at work, or for ideas on how to build your meaningful career,?reach out: Rebecca @ theknockmethod (dot) com.