Rock Your Gig And Get Promoted offers readers the inspiration, perspectives and tools required to ignite career growth. Its intention is to serve as a guide to help uncover new approaches to career enhancement by providing an evolved, sustainable and highly effective path to greater success. Rock Your Gig has six main areas of focus:
1.The Spirit of Reinvention - It all begins with a desire to reimagine and grow. Individuals that sustain the highest levels of professional performance over time are those demonstrating the versatility, willingness and desire to reinvent. The Spirit of Reinvention applies the principal that continuous self-evaluation fuels a cycle of improvement that leads to higher levels of personal and professional maturity. High performing businesses face these challenges on a regular basis and they typically have something most of us don’t-a strategic plan! Doesn’t your career deserve a plan? It’s time to ask yourself what is working, and what isn’t. What’s keeping you from reaching your true potential, and how can you change that dynamic today?
2.The Ecosystem of You - A powerful metaphor for the independend yet interconnected systems and functions of our lives. These include our physical, emotional and spiritual selves as well as the external world around us. A balanced, healthy personal ecosystem brings energy, clarity and focus to our interpersonal encounters. This is the quality and energy we bring to our career aspirations, personal goals and relationships.
3.Objective Self-Assessment - How we perceive ourselves is often not how others see us. To make it even more interesting, most of us believe we have a healthy sense of self, but research shows that only about ten percent of us actually do! Once again, R.Y.G. borrows a page from the corporate playbook with a modified SWOT analysis designed to expose new possibilities, build esteem and expand the field of opportunity. In order to elevate the awareness and effectiveness that drives inspired, productive and sustainable relationships, we need to start with an understanding of where we are today, what is working for us, and what isn’t. The Objective Self-Assessment helps the reader to identify their own strengths and weaknesses and helps guide and clarify the process.
4.Understanding Others - Do your peers want to see you win? Understanding the unique needs and preferences of others-first, is the key to building a supportive audience. You don’t need to be an interpersonal genius; you just need to care enough to take a few steps to close the gap. RYG offers a fresh take on personality design and hard-wired default behaviors providing a template for organizing our understanding of the needs of others.
5.Effective Communication - Conveying our thoughts and feelings accurately takes more than well crafted words. Nonverbal gestures, tone and situational context all play a role. To optimize communication we need a purposeful, customized approach that bypasses our automated processes and leverages active listening skills. By understanding what effective communication actually looks like, we can take a more deliberate approach to our interpersonal encounters.
6.Go Forth and Rock - Time to put it all together and take the stage. R.Y.G’s final thoughts help readers visualize a new, more energized, intentional day. It offers readers a quick-start guide to help identify where the opportunities for positive differentiation, elevated relationships and collaboration exist, and how to make the most of them. Rehearsal is over, it’s time to Rock Your Gig and Get Promoted.
