Your 2024 Career Relationships

In my 1:1 work with clients and in my Career Connections membership, we’ve been talking a lot about building community, networking and nurturing the most important relationships in a career.

Yet – one of the biggest challenges is…time.

I often hear – I’m so busy with work and family. I’m doing all the things to stay afloat in my life. I don’t have time to network, just for the sake of networking.

Or sometimes the reason sounds like – I know I “should” network, but I honestly don’t know why.

Let me pull this out of shouldsville for you.

In my work guiding the careers of hundreds of thoughtful and talented clients, I’ve learned there are 3 types of relationships that are the most important in building their confidence, expanding their view of what’s possible and creating new bridges to get them where they want to be.

So, because you don’t have all the time in the world, let’s focus your energy, attention and time on the connections that will bring you the most meaning and joy.

To get us organized (my love language), I’ve created - The Career Relationship Audit.

Write a list of people who fit into the following categories:
(Fillable worksheet here!!)

Reminder that you don’t need to nurture all relationships, all the time. Your first three categories will have longer lists – and then you can prioritize where you’re going to focus your energy.

What I’ve found is that once I’m intentional and proactive about setting up conversations, I’m reminded about how much they fill me up and I’m able to connect with many more of my favorite humans than I expected I would have time for.

I say this with the caveat of being an extrovert with relationship building being among my most energizing strengths – so no huge surprise.

That said, I do find that for many clients the momentum they feel in nurturing their relationships builds so they somehow create more time for it.

Plus, you’d be surprised how much time you can spin up when you’re able to turn down the volume on a couple of relationships you’re moving towards releasing.

I’d love to hear what you think about the The Career Relationship Audit. We’re going to be diving deep on how it’s helping us to be more thoughtful about our relationships in the next Career Connections session on July 11th at 4pm ET.

If you join by July 9, you’ll be able to join us and share wins in our online community on Circle.

Here’s to summer connecting!