Follow Joel Zeff’s seven essential tips to recession-proof your career and take responsibility for your happiness and passion at work.
We may or may not be in a recession. We are definitely working in a time of great change and stress. How do you manage change and stay passionate and energized at your job? Can you be happy during a recession? How do you take responsibility for your happiness when so many changes are out of your control? Is it possible to recession-proof your career? Join Joel Zeff a national workplace expert, speaker and humorist for his session on seven essential career tips to survive a recession.
Taking the steps to recession-proof your career is a matter of personal choice. With wit, a sharp observational eye, and playful irreverence, Joel discusses the choices we all encounter in our careers. We each have the ability to take initiative and make the right choice to live a more creative, passionate, effective, and productive life – even during a recession. How do you make the right choice? You must take ownership of your work environment and create a foundation of opportunity and positive support. You can choose to be patient, supportive, and more flexible to change. You can choose to have fun in the workplace and still be productive. Joel teaches us just how easy it is to make these choices.
This session is not about "strategic deliverables," PowerPoint presentations with upside-down triangles, or "paradigm shifts in a cross-functional organization." This recession-proof session will be conversational, funny, and very informative. Yes, Joel will make you laugh, but he'll also make you think. This session delivers a combination of inspiration, essential business knowledge, and significant ideas to help you reconnect with their own passion, creativity, and success.
Below is a synopsis of the seven essential steps to “recession-proofing” your career. For more information on the full program, visit JoelZeff.com.
1. Be open and flexible to change
Always be open and flexible to change. No matter what happens to the economy, there is going to be change. A recession proof career starts with your ability to be flexible.
2. Take responsibility for your passion, energy and happiness
Learn to take responsibility for your passion, energy and happiness. Too many times, we let other people’s actions or words determine our happiness. Happiness is a choice.
3. Stay in the game
Anyone can quit. You don’t even have to go to school to learn how to quit. And I am not talking about quitting your job. I am talking about quitting goals, challenges, and initiatives.
4. Work and Live in the moment
Be in the moment at work. Be in the moment at home. Working in the moment means being focused and connected to what is happening right now.
5. Figure out what makes you happy.
Tell someone what you need to be happy. We all need opportunity. When was the last time you told someone specifically what you need to be happy?
6. Create passion.
The truth is you don’t want a job, you want a passion. How do you get a passion? Create an environment of opportunity and positive support and you will be amazed by what you can accomplish.
7. What would you do for free?
You have to face reality during a recession. There are going to be significant changes. Those changes will also create a great opportunity for you.
Joel Zeff is a national workplace expert, speaker, author and humorist. He shares his experience and insight on creativity, communication, work/life balance, leadership, teamwork, passion, and fun through his "recession proof" speaking presentations and book, Make the Right Choice: Creating a Positive, Innovative and Productive Work Life.
For more information on booking Joel Zeff to enlighten and entertain your organization and to learn how to “recession proof” your workplace, call 214-827-1337.
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