Executing The Perfect Pivot

This networking scenario — and path-to-solution — is from my new book The Social Billionaire: A Networking Roadmap for Women Seeking to Flourish and Achieve More. The book is research-backed and draws on the real career experiences of ambitious women. It's designed to show you where the most powerful shifts in your networking approach can be made — and how to reach the career milestones you're after.

Networking Scenario: Successful and Still Restless

By anyone's assessment, SJ has a tremendously successful marketing career — high profile clients, a beautiful home, enviable vacations. While she could call it quits, her ambition is pushing her toward something new. Her networking challenge: figuring out exactly what her ambitious gut is nudging her to do, while also weighing how a career change after 50 will affect her longer-term professional plans.

My Networking Prescription for SJ:

• What Matters To You (Chapter 3 - Focus: What Are You Networking And Why?): Before moving into active career-reinvention networking, get grounded in your values first. This is a list making exercise which asks you to make a list of what matters to you — as these are your compass for every networking choice and career decision that follows.
• Just Say Yes To Possibility (Chapter 6 - Networking: Three High Impact Practices): This is a one-week experiment where the only answer you're allowed to give to any invitation to connect is yes. No dithering, no "let me think about it." Just yes. Networks form through daily routines — and the point of this exercise is to break free from routines that may be keeping you stuck.
• Check For Fire (Chapter 3 - Focus: What Are You Networking And Why?): Is something sparking a flicker of interest? This exercise asks you to tend to that flame — gently — and notice what happens. You don't need to have a raging passion behind every professional motivation, you just need to pay attention to what catches.
• Grit/Mindset Reflection (Chapter 4 - Grit: What's Your Fuel?): This exercise is assesses the state of your grit right now. Is your mindset fueling your ambitions or slowing them down? Which of your networks truly gets what you're after?
• Blank Slate Reinvention (Chapter 6 - Networking: Three High Impact Practices): Imagine waking up tomorrow with none, zippo, nada! of your current obligations on your calendar. What would you choose to add back in? What this exercise reveals is where you want to spend your time, and is a pretty reliable guide to where your career ambitions are actually pointing...

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