Proposing change to your employer can be good for everyone involved
If you want to do more meaningful work and you think you have an idea how to do it—propose it. If you are about to die of boredom, propose something different – and challenging to you. And don’t let the fact that you tried five years ago deter you. Put your data and your plan together, make sure it makes sense and ties to the good of the organization, and then propose the change in your work life. You deserve it.
The first step before proposing a change is to closely evaluate the tasks and projects you are involved with at work. What we are looking for here is scrutiny. If you have some career dissatisfaction there is a good chance that you are performing some tasks purely out of habit or fear, or perhaps some simply to cover your posterior and that cannot be good for you or the company.
Take a good look at your day, better yet take notes on each task you perform for a day or two.
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How do they make you feel?
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Are they creating dissatisfaction? If so, why exactly?
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For which tasks does the time fly by?
Since you are already looking at your day from a different perspective, ask yourself what you are not doing that you could do. Are there areas that you could be using your strengths?
Evaluating your involvement from a critical, but not judgmental view is a crucial step in the process of re-energize your current career.
One caveat: Proposing change is a bad idea if you have not processed your own thoughts and emotions about your past and your current state; if you are constantly complaining about your job; or if you have not scrutinized your own work processes. Once you have taken stock it’s your responsibility to take some action on your own behalf but first get yourself together.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell
