Boomer Reinvention: How to Create Your Dream Career Over 50 by John Tarnoff

Author:John Tarnoff [Tarnoff, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Reinvention Press
Published: 2017-02-07T00:00:00+00:00

Part III.

REINVENTION: A PRACTICAL METHODOLOGY

THE BOOMER REINVENTION METHODOLOGY, which I’ll outline for you in the next five chapters, emerged from the lessons I have learned and the steps I have taken in recovering from my own career setbacks over the years. It’s a common-sense plan that you can follow regardless of your specific circumstances or situation. The key goal of the system is to help you think more expansively about yourself, using your imagination and your inner-knowing to figure out what your next steps should be in accessing the next stage of your career.

In my own career and in my coaching practice, I have found the Boomer Reinvention sequence of five steps and twenty-three underly-ing strategies to be a viable blueprint for career reinvention. However, nothing is carved in stone. You should feel free to use what you find most useful and relevant. Nor should you feel as if the steps must be followed in order. Use the book as a baseline, but modify the system in whatever ways suit you best.

Here is the summary of the five steps:

1. Reframing deals with the various beliefs and attitudes that you have built up over the years about who you are, what you can do, and how the world works. You need to reexamine and reevaluate these beliefs and attitudes, and change or update them in order to see new and different opportunities that may be right there in front of you.

2. Listening builds on the Reframing step by encouraging you to be on the receiving end of information of all types and from all sources. In addition to providing exercises that will stimulate you to think and feel differently about yourself and your environment, Listening sets out a process of inviting feedback from friends and colleagues. This process can give you a different perspective on who you are and what you’ve done. Constructive feedback is essential in developing an accurate picture of how you have been perceived and how your work has had an impact on others—both positive and negative—which will help you to target issues that need to be resolved and bridges that need to be mended.

3. Accepting is the reconciliation process you can use to finally clear outstanding past misinterpretations, judgments, and unresolved issues identified in the Reframing and Listening steps. By putting the past behind, you, you can move forward into the reinvention process with a clear head and an emotionally reenergized focus.

4. Expressing is about planning your reinvention. This is the most reflective and uplifting step in the process, where I encourage you to use a number of behavioral and visioning techniques to identify the possible reinventions that will work for you. You’ll find that reinvention does not have to be a dramatic, overwhelming shift to something completely new. The kind of fresh attitudes and directions that you can learn in this process can transform your existing job and career just as much as it can lead to a new one.

5. Connecting is the process of taking

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