New Challenges Require New Thoughts

Simplified Success Strategies

By Bruce Lund, NEXTPERT
Topic: Career Development, Emerging Leaders   www.nextpert.net

A worker in today’s free agent era spends an average of only 1.1 years in a job and will have 27 different titles throughout their careers. Companies are forced to spend over 300 billion dollars annually training new employees. Career epidemic is widespread with the combination of strong global competition, payroll cutbacks and rapid unemployment rates. Companies can no longer afford to hire “nice-to-have” employees and are in search of “must have”, solutions-oriented, results-producing superstars.

Despite young professionals being the most educated employee to ever break into the workplace they are also being employed at the lowest clip. This is due in large by the lack of practical experience and false realities of what it takes to break into the job force in today’s ultra-competitive markets. Meanwhile, a widespread belief is that experienced professionals have grown too comfortable in their roles resulting in complacency. Breaking with outdated concepts, thought-patterns, and habits is a difficult transformation the next generation worker has to endure.

Businesses of all sizes are bombarded with potential top performers and must sift through the clutter during today’s ultra-competitive markets and declining economy to pinpoint the right people for their company. There are three assumptions leaders make when evaluating current and potential employers.

• Are they the right fit on the team
• Do they have the capacity to play at a different level
• Do they WANT to make a shift to play at a different level

The new workplace requires a different breed of talent--one that can adapt with the fasted-paced environment. Individuals that get ahead are ones more focused on results than the job titles they hold. Social media has been a great tool for marketing individual and corporate brands. But social media has also cultivated an ego-driven “what’s in it for me” mentality in the corporate world today. We have moved away from the core values that have made individuals and organizations successful as a whole for decades and must get back to creating collective passion that provides win-win situations for all involved. 

Bruce Lund is the Founder & CEO of NEXTPERT, a training service that develops leaders at ALL levels. Bruce is an Author, Speaker, and Entrepreneur on "Simplified Success Strategies" for professionals to stand out by using the NEXTPERT 3-step process to DISCOVER, DEVELOP, and LIVE the NEXTPERT in you! Every company needs a team of Leadership NEXTPERTs that are solutions-oriented and anticipate the needs of others. Learn to leverage your current success into future opportunity!

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