Taking Responsibility of Your Career

“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.” By Aldous Huxley

It is simple to accept and agree with the late great, Mr. Huxley. I would further add, if you want to improve your life and career, take responsibility for how you’ve defined success.

We have a lifelong relationship with what success really means to us. This is one of the more important mission’s in our life: How we create within our evolving definition of success to understand who we are, so that we can create the life we were meant to create.

Work and career are part of the kaleidoscope of our life. Work can be a fun, exciting and meaningful part of our creative self-expression. Too often we do not create from this perspective, we believe work is supposed to be hard and even worse a hardship.

How does this link to taking responsibility for your career?

Workplaces today need people who are willing to take responsibility for their career satisfaction. We give this responsibility to our employers, looking at the workplace culture, environment or even leadership to make this happen. Given another perspective, organizations and leaders, especially people managers, can make a big difference in making career satisfaction and performance success possible for their people. Organizations can and do provide structures and programs to support career development.

Promoting Brilliance’s program, Career & Life Blending™, is designed to do just this. It creates dialogue between individuals and their workplace for the purpose of taking responsibility for career development by the individual and enlisting the organization’s support. This helps grow a culture based on the employee’s self-responsibility. Individuals relate their vision and goals for their career development, satisfaction and performance, which gives employers a unique opportunity to support people as adults and bust unnecessary workplace drama. Thus removing the outdated employer role, which makes them responsible much like an authoritative parent.

Ken Keyes said it best: “To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it.” Taking responsible of your career means busting free of the dramas that limit your career development perspective.