This document is a presentation by career coach Lorraine Rinker titled "Career Booster". The presentation provides advice and strategies for improving one's career, including taking an imperfect job and turning it around, finding one's passion, discovering strengths, prioritizing work, managing interruptions, and increasing the capacity of others. The presentation emphasizes developing skills like conducting a job analysis, keeping an activity log, and beating procrastination to boost one's career through small consistent efforts.

1. RINKER A S S O C I AT ES M A ST E R S E R I ES
Career Booster
Presented by
Presented by
Lorraine Rinker
Radical Careerist
Radical Careerist
Career Booster© 2009

2. What will you do . . .
. . . to make
this your best
year yet?
Career Booster© 2009

3. Are you doing what you love?
Or do you feel that you’re
“going through the motions”
in a job you find unsatisfying?
Career Booster© 2009

4. Take an imperfect job and turn it around
Take the
helm of your
career, alter
your course
and prepare
to “come
about !
about”!
Career Booster© 2009

5. Find your passion
What do you love
to do?
The answer is in the
everyday things you do!
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Career Booster© 2009

6. The truth about your strengths
You are the
authority of what
th it f h t
your strengths
are and you can
discover them in
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your daily tasks.
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Career Booster© 2009

7. What are you really proud of?
When you think about
events from your
past, what makes you
energized and
g
excited?
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8. What do you value?
I value experiences where I am able to . . .
discover create inspire imagine
improve enhance collaborate
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9. But, what’s getting in your way?
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10. Some common issues . . .
Inadequate
Inadequate
Too
Too available Resources and
accommodating
support
Office politics
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Conflicting
Conflicting
and stakeholder
demands
issues
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11. Go From Negative to Positive
Turn challenges into
opportunities.
Remove the word “can’t”
from your vocabulary.
Give
Gi one more degree of
d f
effort to go from good to
great!
Career Booster© 2009

12. Plan your future
Roadmaps can take the form of:
Strategic Plan
Business Plan
Project Plan
j
Career Plan
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13. Career Boosting Skills
You already possess what it takes to boost your
career . . . here are daily skills you can use
immediately.
immediately . .
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14. Conduct a Job Analysis
Know what you SHOULD
be doing:
• Review the formal
documentation that relates to
your job
job.
• Understand your organization’s
strategy and culture.
• Find out who the top achievers
are and why. Learn the skills
that get them ahead.
• Confirm your understanding
with your boss.
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15. Keep an Activity Log
Forget about trying to manage
time - - it’s finite. Instead,
manage yourself more effectively.
Make sure you understand how
you’re actually spending your
time by maintaining an activity
log for at least a week.
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16. Make the most of your time
Execute your
current projects
pj
flawlessly.
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17. Prioritize your work
Do you rank
y
your tasks
and work on
those with
high priority
first?
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18. Delegate with finesse
Know what you can delegate.
Career Booster© 2009

19. Manage Interruptions
Start by understanding who is
interrupting you and why.
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20. For valid interruptions . . .
Learn to say “no”.
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Career Booster© 2009

21. Beat Procrastination
Recognize hen
Recogni e when
and why you’re
procrastinating.
procrastinating
Use your activity
log to make
g
changes in your
work habits and
get on with it!
t ith
Career Booster© 2009

22. Increase the capacity of others
Make a difference in your work by helping
people identify their strengths.
Career Booster© 2009

23. Great things . . .
Great things are
g
not done by
impulse,
but by a series of
f
small things
brought together
together.
- Vincent van Gogh
Career Booster© 2009

24. You don’t succeed alone ‐ ‐
Garner ongoing support from your
Personal Board of Directors
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25. Your call to action. . .
Do a self-review.
Imagine what
your day would
be like if you put
f
just one more
degree of effort
into
boosting
your career!
Career Booster© 2009

26. As a former Fortune 100 Information Technology executive, Lorraine
Rinker “lived” in corporate America for 22 years until she decided it
was time to do something new and different. Opting for the road less
traveled, Lorraine is very familiar with change in that she is a Navy
daughter who spent most of her formative years “on the move” in
Tokyo Japan, California, and Hawaii. Believing that “your career
journey is a series of unfolding views”, she now applies her passion for
helping others realize their career dreams and goals through career
and business coaching-consulting.
Lorraine formed her own private practice as a leadership career coach
in 2005 and since then has helped numerous people from all walks of
life discover their true potential. Lorraine is a winner of the Luminary
potential
Award presented by the National Association of Women Business
Owners recognizing businesses that “light the way for others” and she
was recently commended by the California Judicial Council for her
leadership work as Board Chairman and President for Child Advocates
About the
About the of Placer County.y
Lorraine lives in El Dorado Hills California with her husband Bob and
author enjoys volunteering her time to local and national humanitarian efforts
for children’s rights, veterans in transition, and HIV/AIDS legislation.
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Lorraine’s portrait by Sirlin Photography
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