Pretend You're Fired Today

There’s definitely been a running theme these past few episodes. By now I hope you’re catching on that nuanced situations with potential to alter your career path can happen at any moment. Even in this booming job creation and growing economic environment, many companies face down-turns and cut-backs. If you’re a longtime listener, or even if you’ve listened to just a few episodes, you probably already know that the core of all of this is to be prepared and to be proactive so that in the event you need to make a change you know how to navigate that process with grace, dignity and foresight. Let’s look at how to do that in a layoff situation ... Show highlights: What to do to create a mindset that forces you to be proactive … (2:06) The intelligence you need to gather while downsizing efforts are still on the drawing board (3:15) The past is the past … How to recognize who now has all the leverage so you can mirror the new order (4:30) What you need to know to successfully reconfigure your role with what’s im