7 Ways to Be the Chief Strategy Officer of Your Career

When you are at the executive level, you're expected to strategize your climb.?

Therefore, your roadmap for pursuing hidden opportunities must be unlike the career seeking population that applies online. ?An Executive Career Strategy Succeeds?By Managing Relationships---not by applying online.

CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER

When it comes to your own career, you are the Chief Strategy Officer. ?Getting to your next opportunity is expected to result from relationships that that introduce and refer you. How you get to a potential hiring manager is an immediate indicator of your strategic leadership when you demonstrate that you are:

1. ENDORSED: Your network of executives recommend and you for your expertise and impact reducing the risk for the hiring executive.
2. CONNECTED: You're a connected leader with colleagues and peers, confident, and articulate your value to companies that interest you.?
3. ?A COMMUNICATOR: You are clear a good listener and know how to lead a conversation that has mutually beneficial outcomes and ask for what you need.?
4. INVESTED IN YOUR CAREER: You consistently invest in your development and can prove your ROI.
5. CHARISMATIC: You present yourself as a leader in your appearance, confidence, and ?communication. You develop new leaders by example.
6. MEMORABLE: Conversations with you are positive experiences.

How to State Your Value

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It's common to think that company leaders know how to apply their skills to their own career advancement, but that is not always the case.?

Confidence levels and knowing how to effectively create opportunities outside of the organization is less than you might think. ?Many times, advancement happens by chance vs. from a strategy.?

When executives are out on their own as they seek a career change vs. in their daily company leadership role, they must learn to to promote themselves. This is a vulnerable spot that some embrace because they want the change bad enough but not sure how to apply their current leadership skills to their own advancement strategy.?

That's where we help our clients succeed...?they invest in themselves.

2Actify offers INDIVIDUAL CAREER STRATEGY PROGRAMS for leaders. Here's a full description:?

Individual Career Strategy Programs

Have a specific application? We also have programs for:

• ?Advanced Interview Success
• Company "OWN YOUR VALUE" Workshop
• How to Become an Influencer

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?Career Defining Learning Experiences...

?We're helping clients focus on specific actions that have helped them land their next role and career choices for their future.? And here's how this leader took charge!:

• When we began our work together, a company manager learned how to articulate her value starting with a resume and profile. ?Within a week, she accepted a great offer and an immediate ROI for the investment she made in us working together.?
• When she resigned and ready to start anew with her new job, she wound up getting a call from the CEO of her current company asking her to stay. ?
• WIth her new confidence position in the wings, she had a renewed perspective of her value so she spoke freely with the CEO explaining whyt she made the decision to leave. ?
• Clearly, he valued her input and commited to make changes based on her input. ?And he did, so she decided to stay at the current company.
• A new beginning... our client stayed, received a promotion, new compensation and the CEO stuck to his commitment to change. A WIN-WIN-WIN.

What needs to happen for you to be in charge of your career?