Have you thought about your 2016 career plans? Now is a great time to do it, before another one-twelfth of 2016 is gone! In this Slideshare deck Human Workplace CEO and Founder Liz Ryan walks you through your career options for 2016 and lends advice on Stepping Up in Your Career in 2016!

1. How to Step Up
in Your Career in 2016
By Liz Ryan
CEO and Founder, Human Workplace

2. What does “Step Up” mean to you?
Maybe you want to
get promoted at
work this year, or
maybe you’re job-
hunting and want to
land a terrific job.
Maybe 2016 is the
year you launch
your own business!

3. What’s Important to You?
The first step in making your
2016 career goals real is to
decide what your goals are!
Answer these questions: what
do I most want to accomplish
in my career in 2016?
How would I like my career
situation on December 31,
2016 to be different than it is
now?

4. Three Career Strategies for 2016
There are three
principal career
strategies for you to
choose from as you
think about your 2016
career adventures.
Which 2016 career
strategy is the best
choice for you?

5. Career Strategy #1:
Grow Muscles in Place
If you’re working now, you can keep
your current job and grow muscles
in place.
That means you’ll know what you
are working to learn, accumulate
and accomplish on the job this year,
beyond what your manager requires.
You can meet your manager’s goals
and grow your own professional
flame at the same time!

6. Growing Your Flame at Work
What could you learn at work this
year and add to your resume that
would boost your marketability and
credibility?
What projects or new adventures
could you take on at work to grow
your library of Dragon-Slaying
Stories and grow your muscles?
How could develop personally and
professionally at work this year?

7. Make Your Plan for Career Strategy
#1: Growing Muscles in Place!
When you know the answers to the questions I
asked you on the previous slide, you’re ready to
make your Career Strategy Plan!
You will list the experiences, instruction,
contacts, and other good things you will
accumulate on the job in 2016. You’ll set goals
and milestones for yourself for your own career
plan, the same way you do for your projects at
work.
You can think of your job as a new level in a
video game. Every level of the game has good
things to collect. Some of the good things you
can collect in a video game are out in the open.
Others are hidden – you have to search for
them!

8. Career Strategy #2:
Start Something New
Career Strategy #2 is Start
Something New. You could get a
new job in 2016 – if you’re job-
hunting, Career Strategy #2 is the
right one for you!
Maybe you’ll start a consulting
business from your home. I never
thought I could do that. It sounded
scary to me. Then I did it. I was
shocked at how not-scary
consulting turned out to be!

9. How do I execute Career Strategy #2:
Start Something New?
Decide what you want to start
– a job search, a new business
or something else.
Get a calendar and assign
yourself milestones. Then
work backwards from each
big milestone. What do you
have to do first, second and
third to stay on your plan?

10. We can help!
The 12-Week Virtual Course
“Jump-Start Your 2016 Plan”
will guide you through the
process of creating your
2016 plan and carrying it
out.
Check out the 12-Week
Virtual Course “Jump-Start
Your 2016 Plan here!”

11. Career Strategy #3:
Two-Lane Highway
Your Two-Lane Highway will let you keep
doing the work you’re doing now, while
simultaneously building your exit ramp
from your current gig and your entrance
ramp to your new one!
Your Two-Lane Highway could be a way
to move from your current job to a new
job via a stealth job search.
You could work at your job and plan the
launch of your business when you’re not
working.

12. How do I build my Two-Lane
Highway?
To launch and manage your
stealth job search, check out
the 12-Week Virtual Course
Job-Hunt While You’re
Working.
To first plan and then launch
your consulting business,
check out the 12-Week
Virtual Course Launch Your
Consulting Business!

13. I Need to Know How to Job-Hunt!
There is a new way to job-hunt in
2016. You don’t have time to waste
completing online job applications!
Learn how to use Pain Letters and
your Human-Voiced Resume to get a
great job!
Check out the Four-Week Virtual
Course Get the Job You Deserve, or
the intensive Twelve-Week edition of
Get the Job You Deserve!

14. Get your Virtual Course Guide!
New Four-Week and 12-Week Virtual Courses
from Human Workplace begin on Saturday,
February 6th. You can opt to receive one new
lesson every Saturday for four or 12 weeks in
your course, or you can choose to get all your
lessons right away!
Download your free Virtual Course Guide here!
Read about our February 6th,
2015 virtual courses and the
FREE BONUS GIFT for course
members!

15. Take a Big Step Up in 2016!
Grow your Muscles & MOJO in
a Virtual Course from Human
Workplace!
Our mission at Human
Workplace is to reinvent work
for people.
Join us in the Human
Workplace movement!

16. Thanks!
Have an awesome day
and thanks for checking
out our Slideshare deck!
All the best,
Liz Ryan
CEO and Founder
Human Workplace