When you encounter a career bottleneck, you just don't know yourself.
Li Weiwei, 3 1 year-old, is a middle-level manager of a well-known Internet company with hundreds of management teams. I came to consult because of my career bottleneck.
"What do you think is your biggest core competitiveness now?" I asked.
"I graduated from a prestigious school and have enough work experience in this industry. My spoken English is not bad. " Another answer.
If, as a boss or superior, you recruit middle managers to lead a department, do you think this answer is satisfactory?
I want to say that this is not the core competitiveness, but the root: the root of education, the root of industry and the root of skills.
For newcomers in the workplace, you can rely on academic qualifications, as long as it takes a few years. If you still rely on academic qualifications for more than ten years, you really have to think about what the problem is. How much do you know about yourself?
Joseph Luft and Harry Ingram, two American psychologists, put forward "johari window" in 1950s, hoping to help people know themselves better, master their four parts clearly and find ways to change themselves.
Johari window's theory compares "everyone's information" to a window, which is divided into four areas: open area, secret area, blind area and unknown area.
Johari window divides everyone's information into four areas (quadrants):
1. Open self: This area is what you know and what others know about you, such as your name, gender, age and so on. Although not all your friends know these contents, at least you and some people you know do. Information that is easy to be learned by others belongs to this area.
2. Hidden self: This area is information about you that you know but others don't know, such as your privacy, your childhood, physical illness and so on. Generally speaking, you are reluctant to share this information with others, because the exposure of this information may make you feel embarrassed or even hurt.
3. Blind self: This area is the part that you don't know, but others know, such as some of your habits, idioms and these habitual things, which we don't know ourselves until someone tells us. Blind My body shape is related to my self-awareness. Some people with introspective characteristics will be smaller if they are blind.
4. Unknown self: This area is the part that you and others don't know. Like your potential.
Warren Buffett once said that if you don't know who a rookie is after playing cards for half an hour, then you are.
Three Common Career Bottlenecks and Their Solutions
After more than ten years of experience in the workplace, it seems that the career bottleneck is influenced by external factors such as industries and platforms in addition to their own ignorance. Sister Cat divides career bottlenecks into three categories: work bottlenecks, platform bottlenecks and industry bottlenecks.
First, the location bottleneck
Talking too much is all tears. Frankly speaking, personal ability can't keep up with the development of the position.
solution
Teacher Xie You thinks that the bottleneck can be solved by upward communication, provided that:
(1) The industry in which the company is located is in a "rising period" or a "golden period", and the company itself has core competitiveness in social competition and has room for development in the future. For example, artificial intelligence, internet industry and so on.
(2) Have a correct understanding of yourself, including interests, hobbies, abilities, skills and future prospects. Moreover, I have done a good job and outstanding ability, looking for opportunities to show my ability to be competent for higher positions.
Specifically, the steps of upward communication are:
1: What I want. I want to know clearly. On this basis, combined with the actual situation of the company, design your own career development path.
2. When appropriate, put forward your own ideas to your superiors and ask for their opinions and suggestions. If your boss recognizes your work and ability and thinks it meets the requirements of upward development, you can discuss specific career development goals, standards and time nodes with your boss. If the boss doesn't approve, he should also discuss the problems existing in the current work with his superiors and feedback the improvement methods in the later stage;
3. According to the result of the third step, start to implement and give feedback to the boss regularly.
Platform bottleneck
Industrial bottleneck
solution
If it is a platform bottleneck or an industry bottleneck, it can't meet the demand through self-understanding and upward communication. How to find a suitable enterprise at this time?
1. First of all, analyze: Did you meet the ceiling in this company or this company? Then decide whether to change companies or industries.
Li Na used to be the treasurer of a local coal enterprise. The decline of the industry made Li Na aware of the professional crisis and hoped to change companies. This is the bottleneck of a typical industry, and it is difficult to develop your own works. My suggestion is that Li Na can choose to start from a promising industry, change industries and companies, without changing jobs.
If it is a platform bottleneck, if you have a full understanding of yourself, it is recommended to think about the following questions before making a judgment:
What skills and values can this job bring you?
Have you learned everything? If not, how do you plan to learn next? When can I finish learning?
Does your present job help your next career goal?
If this job can still bring you skills and value, you can set yourself a deadline to complete the goal as soon as possible, and then move on to the next career goal. If not, you will have to change your job.
Secondly, if you don't agree with the company or the boss's three views or working methods in your current job, you can also choose to leave, otherwise it's easy to get along and start wasting your life.
In addition, if the company does not provide support and resources for your business, you can also consider changing jobs. I don't advise you to be too persistent in this job. After all, many times, the choice is greater than the effort.
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Whether it is an industry problem, a platform problem, or a problem of self-awareness and core competitiveness, the emergence of career bottlenecks has given us an opportunity to become a better self. Therefore, in Sister Cat's view, the emergence of career bottleneck is that God will tell you: "There is an opportunity below, you should seize it." Seize the opportunity, the workplace is to go up a storey still higher.