{"id":856,"date":"2012-10-17T04:55:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T08:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/?p=856"},"modified":"2017-09-05T19:41:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T23:41:24","slug":"interest-in-your-career-influences-your-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/?p=856","title":{"rendered":"Does Interest In Your Career Influence Your Outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"

How much does interest in your career influence your performance or rewards? Can you really be effective if you\u2019re not interested? Over the lifecycle of your career, how has your level of interest coincided with what you were doing or what moves you\u2019ve made or your general performance level?<\/p>\n

To demonstrate this, take out a piece of paper and make a graph:<\/p>\n

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  1. The x-axis is the timeline of your work history.<\/li>\n
  2. The y-axis is your interest level from low to high.<\/li>\n
  3. Determine some key milestones in your career (big new projects, new bosses, promos, job changes, etc) and list them on the x-axis of your work history.<\/li>\n
  4. Graph your career based on how interested you were (in your career) as you\u2019ve progressed through the years.\u00a0And make sure you don\u2019t fall into the trap of correlating interest to hours. Being interested in your career is about being engaged and excited, it has nothing to do with hours.\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I\u2019ve played this with many people and it\u2019s been interesting to uncover the insights gleaned from seeing their career according to this graph. Are they more interested in the months or year leading up to a promotion, or right after? Were they more interested working in group X vs. group Y, and why?<\/p>\n

    Also put in some life events to see what that might have done to your interest level. Did moving to a new house, with that great new home office, make you even more interested? When you were doing that hobby a couple years ago, did it make you more interested in work too? What could you do in your personal life to continue to be more interested at what you\u2019re doing professionally?<\/p>\n

    Is the secret to high performance just being interested in what you\u2019re doing?<\/strong>
    \nWith what you learned from the patterns in the graph, how could you become more engaged and excited by what you\u2019re doing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    How much does interest in your career influence your performance or rewards? Can you really be effective if you\u2019re not interested? Over the lifecycle of your career, how has your level of interest coincided with what you were doing or what moves you\u2019ve made or your general performance level? To demonstrate this, take out a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6,7,5],"tags":[18,98,97,99,101,102,100,103],"class_list":["post-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-career","category-development","category-ideas","tag-career","tag-chart","tag-graph","tag-influence","tag-interest","tag-pattern","tag-performance","tag-rewards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2733,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions\/2733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}