Three Steps to Accelerate Your Career Success

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Three Steps to Accelerate Your Career Success

Whether you’re trying to build momentum in your career or trying to keep the momentum going, these are the three powerful (yet often overlooked) steps to take that will help YOU accelerate your career success.

By ROMMEL ANACAN, The Apartment All Stars

Have you ever had those moments in your career when you’ve felt stuck? You know that sinking feeling you get when you know you’ve tried everything you can to move forward, but it doesn’t seem to be working? When it feels like no matter what you do you keep running into a wall?

Or maybe you’ve started to experience a little (or a lot) of success in your career and now you’re wondering what you need to do to keep the good times going.

If either of these situations resonate with you, I can totally relate.

I remember a season in my career wasn’t progressing as quickly as I wanted it to. My work days were filled with stress, fear and frustration. I knew that something needed to change.

I also remember when I saw my career really start to take off. At first I was excited to finally see the results I always wanted. But then, I felt the pressure to have to constantly produce at a high level, to keep up with everyone else and to always have to be a better version of me show up every day, if I wanted to keep growing in my career.

Then I discovered and implemented some powerful strategies that helped me accelerate my success. Whether you’re trying to build momentum in your career or trying to keep the momentum going, these are the three powerful, yet often overlooked, steps to take that will help YOU accelerate your career success.

Step #1: Be AWARE

After working with thousands of clients throughout my speaking, consulting and coaching career, one of the big mistakes people make that prevent them from achieving the success they desire is not being AWARE.

While there are many areas where lack of awareness causes problems, I want to focus on one big area right now, and those are the things that are holding you back from achieving your goals.

Do you need to grow in your leadership? People skills? Closing the sale? Time management? Organization skills? Emotional intelligence? Dealing with stress?

Once you’ve identified the big areas, identity the one area to start with that would have the biggest results in your career. Then move on to the next step.

Step #2: ACKNOWLEDGE

Now that you’ve become aware of that thing that may be holding you back from experiencing all the success you really want, you want to make the decision to acknowledge it.

After I finished up a keynote talk on the secrets of winning with people, I had a gentleman who I could see wanted to speak to me, but it was clear he didn’t want anyone else around when he did. So, after the crowd dissipated, he came up to me, smiled and said, “I now understand why my wife is so irritated with me all the time!”

We both laughed. I told him that I appreciated his honesty and that honesty would serve him well as he tried to improve his level of communication and connection with his wife.

If you want to accelerate your career, you need to get honest and real with yourself, too. (I know…not fun!) The truth is, everyone has at least one area where they could use growth. In fact, most of us, myself included, have multiple areas!

The problem is we try so hard to hide those areas from ourselves and others, which prevents us from doing the powerful work of removing those defects from our careers and replacing them with assets that would accelerate us forward.

So, if you’ve discovered that you have “areas of opportunity” that could use a little attention, there’s nothing wrong with that. It means you’re normal!

What would be wrong would be to do nothing about it!

This takes us to our third and final step….

Step #3: Take ACTION

When was the last time you rented a movie at Blockbuster? Is Radio Shack your “go-to” store for electronics? Are you still shopping for your Christmas presents from the Sears catalog? Do you even remember the Sears catalog?

There was a time when Blockbuster, Radio Shack and Sears were HUGE! Today, Blockbuster only has one store left. Radio Shack is a shell of itself. Sears is struggling just to stay afloat.

Those companies have one thing in common – they didn’t take enough action to respond to a changing marketplace, and it prevented them from moving forward.

What does this mean for you? It means that if you want to accelerate your career, you must take action today to prepare for your success tomorrow.

Here is what I want you to do

If you attend my Accelerating Your Success session at the 2022 HAA Conference and Expo I’ll give you several powerful action steps that you’ll can implement right away to achieve the success that you desire in your career.

For now, I want you to identify just one area to take action in right now. Again, focus on the one area that would have the greatest impact on your career today. Is it leadership? Communication skills? How to confidently close the sale? Dealing with stressful situations?

Now, identify one action you can take, right now, that would make a positive impact in that one area.

Then, I want you to commit to taking action today.

It won’t always be easy. It will be worth it.

Rommel Anacan (Roemell Ana-kin) is obsessed with helping people communicate better so that they can achieve the success they desire. It’s the reason so many leading companies, organizations and people look to him for easy to use communication strategies that instantly create mutual connection, understanding, and trust. Find out more about him on IG @rommelanacan or at www.RommelAnacan.com.

Don’t miss Rommel at the 2022 HAA Education Conference! See Pages 18 and 19 for details.