Have you ever wondered if there was a blueprint that you could follow
in order to achieve career growth success?
Or have you ever wished that somebody would lay out the land for you
brick by brick, to so that you can take those steps in order to
achieve your most meaningful professional goals?
Well, you've heard the saying that in order to get to the next level,
you need to add more value.
And you've heard that in terms of value in salary exchange, that add
more value, have more opportunities, add more value, become more
visible.
We've all heard that before.
So in this video, I have good news for you.
In this video, I'm gonna share with you a blueprint on what it does
mean to grow your career path in each stage.
And the principles that I'm about to share with you apply to any
industry.
So there are four levels of value, regardless of what industry that
you're in, what company that you work for right now, or what industry
or company that you wanna grow into into the future.
These principles will apply to you.
So these key principles, when you understand how to navigate from each
step of career growth to the next, you'll be able to be successful.
You'll be able to add the most value at that level, and to you, you'll
be able to plan ahead in terms of what value do I want to add next and
be able to know through a very structured curriculum how to get there.
So I'm excited to share with you the four levels of value.
Let's go.
Just a little bit of background.
I have shared in a previous video the three levels of value, but in
terms of career growth, there's a lot of people in the community who
have been feeding back to me that, well, I wanna become an executive.
I wanna become a senior vp.
Eventually I might wanna become a C E O landing the C-suite position.
That's where I wanna be ultimately.
So with respect to that, in response to that, I wanna share with you
one layer of value that I have not shared before.
So in this video, it's the three plus one levels of value, four levels
in total that when you understand this is the blueprint for career
growth to the executive level positions and beyond.
If it is you wanna become C-suite, then the fourth level of value is
gonna be the one that is most important.
The first level of value is implementation.
When you are in the level of implementation, it is the early stage of
career.
This is where you are a newly graduate, an intern, an individual
contributor as well, or you have been introduced into that industry.
This is where you're hired to do a thing.
You are the doer, you follow directions.
There are processes that are given to you, and your performance
metrics are all based on how well do you follow instructions, how well
can you follow through on processes?
Are you going to do, as you say you are going to do?
Are the skills going to be able to be developed in terms of your
efficiency at doing those tasks?
So it's very tactical.
So this is the level of implementation.
And when it comes to being paid your worth in terms of the value you
bring in at the first level of value, the pay is directly linked to
your time.
How much time you spend on those tasks, the time that is spent, you go
to the office or you go to your office to be able to do that work.
So there's this very strong link between money and time.
So when it comes to implementation, most of the individuals at this
first level of career, the fallback question that they ask themselves,
the key question is, where do I go next?
Where do I go from here?
Because a lot of people, when you become an implementation, you become
good at what you do, you develop the subject matter expertise.
So the fallback question that I hear a lot of people asking is, well,
what is some opportunities?
Where can I grow into?
What's the next step?
Right?
So this is the first level of value.
It is implementation.
It is the lowest level of value in the industry, which is why there's
a money time link, and which is also why individuals want to go to the
next stage, but is a little bit of a lack of clarity of what does that
mean and where do I go from here, right?
So that's the first level of value.
Let's talk about value number two.
The second to lowest level of value is unification.
So you're moving from implementation into unification.
At the level of unification, you are the unifier, which means that you
are managing, you're managing something.
So there are three things that you're managing at the level of
unification.
You can be managing people, people, manager, you can be managing
projects, project manager.
You can be managing processes or sometimes policies.
So this is the level of unification.
And at the most senior level of management, senior managers, this is
where they are usually team leaders.
So unification is how can we create unified strategic processes?
How do we create unified systems around achieving our strategic
directions from the top down?
So this is the second to lowest level of value.
And usually there is a fallback question as well.
So at most managers that I see, entry level managers, mid-level
managers, senior level managers as well, the top number one question
that people are asking is, how do I get to the next level?
Right?
How many of you are thinking about that right now?
I am a manager.
I wanna get to the next level.
How do I get there?
And for a mid-level manager, it is senior level manager.
For a senior level manager in a corporate setting, in an industry
setting, it is, how do I become a director?
How do I lead my department?
And so on.
So that is the fallback question.
How do I get to that next level?
Implementation and unification are the two lowest level of values in
the industry.
Now, I'm not saying that you are in, you're not valuable if you are an
implementer.
I'm not saying that the individuals are important.
We need to have implementation in the marketplace.
Every company needs to, needs to have great implementers, needs to
have dedicated, dedicated implementers.
What I am saying is that it is the lowest level of value in the
marketplace, which means that the marketplace values implementation
the least, and it values unification a little bit more compared to
implementation, which is why the value towards a company is a little
bit higher if you become a manager, your value to the company, your
contribution to it, and at the unification stage, the link is be
between you and your responsibilities.
When you're an implementer, the link between you and your salary is
you and the time spent as a unifier, it's between you and your
responsibilities.
How well did you hold your responsibilities to yourself, to the
processes and the people you manage, right?
So those are the two lowest level of value in the industry.
So when it comes to the next step, remember the fallback question that
a lot of managers are asking themselves is, how do I get to the next
level?
I know where I wanna be, how do I get there?
So this is getting to the the next level of value in the marketplace.
So now you're going from implementation, the next level of value is
unification, and then the higher one from that is communication.
And that's exactly why when you are in your company, sometimes you
notice, well, a lot of my colleagues were able to get ahead, they were
able to get promoted, and they don't, they're not as experienced as I
am.
They're not as good at what I do, they're not as good at it compared
to me, and yet they become promoted simply because they can talk well
simply because they're better communicators.
And that's exactly why, is because in the marketplace, communication
is a higher level of value compared to implementation.
Communication is also a higher level of value compared to unification,
compared to management.
So then when it comes to getting to the next level, if you are in
unification right now, getting to the next level is communication.
You are advancing in communication.
So at the senior level of management, the next stage is oftentimes
that director position.
At the director position, you're going to be having fiscal
responsibilities.
You don't have to wait until you become a VP or a C-suite to have
fiscal responsibilities.
You already begin to have fiscal responsibilities at the director
level.
So it's important for you to be able to see what core functions of the
business that you are accountable for on a high level, but also on a
day-to-day level, your daily task and your responsibilities, how they
relate to contributing to the fiscal growth of the whole company.
So this is important at the communication level, this is where you're
going to be involved less and less in the doing the tactical work
involved a little bit less in terms of managing people and projects
and policies and a little bit more when it comes to becoming more
visible.
You may not be the face of the company yet, but this is where you are
expected to provide consultative services, consultative
recommendations to speak up as well, and to share your insights,
right?
So now at the communication level, the fallback question that most
people ask when by the time they get to director level and above, the
fallback question that most people ask is, how do I get ahead?
I am here now and this is my first time as a director.
Or they say, I'm here now I'm a VP in the company, but I wanna get
further ahead.
I wanna be able to add more, have more impact.
I wanna have more influence.
How do I get ahead in my career path?
I wanna make sure that I can do the director responsibilities.
I wanna make sure that I can fulfill on this.
And as a first time director, I wanna know how do I fulfill on that?
So that's the fallback question at the communication level.
And that's not all.
In my previous video, I shared the first three levels of value.
Now let me reveal to you what's the fourth level of value?
And this is the highest level of value in the marketplace.
Now so far, we've covered implementation, which is the lowest level of
value.
Then you go from unification.
From that, you get to communication.
Now, the highest level of value in the industry marketplace is
imagination.
Imagination.
This is the highest level of value.
If you will operate from the level of imagination and communication,
the top two levels of value in the marketplace, you will have impact,
you will have influence, you will build your legacy contribution.
You will make your most valuable contribution in the marketplace using
your expertise and your skill when you operate at the top two levels
of value, communication, and imagination.
So let's talk about imagination.
Who are the imagineers?
The imagineers are the founders, they're the pioneers, they're the
individuals that have a visionary capability.
So what is visionary?
Visionary is being able to see the future of an industry and saying,
this is the future that we is, that is possible for us.
It is a reality.
It is possible.
This is the direction we can be going and what we can achieve.
So that's the visionary capability.
So they go into the future and say, of an expansive future generations
out, five years out, 10 years out.
And they can imagine that improved future circumstance, that improved
future situation, they go out into the future, they have a clarity of
that picture, and then they come back into the present and they demand
it becomes real.
They demand it becomes a reality in the now.
So that is a visionary capability, and that is imagination.
So when it comes to imagination, this is imagineers having a
continuity of fiscal responsibilities.
Remember, in the communication level, you already start to have fiscal
responsibilities.
Well, at the imagination level, you have a continuity.
You have to ensure the continuity of that fiscal responsibility and
also to be able to lead multi levels of teams beneath you.
So then when it comes to imagination, you have the most expansive time
and space horizons in communication.
You've already expanded compared to implementation and unification,
but at the imagination level, you have the most expansive time and
space horizon horizons to be able to see far out in advance, uh, in
the future and come back into now to be present, right?
So at the level of imagination, what is the fallback question?
I talked about the fallback questions of each stage along this career
growth.
So that at imagination, what people ask the fallback question is they
ask themselves, how do my team members get ahead?
Because by the time you get to the imagination level, you are the ceo,
you are the leader of that organization, and you are building systems
and processes to support your legacy, to build that legacy
contribution.
So oftentimes it's not about you anymore.
It's about how can I ensure my team members can get ahead and when my
team members get ahead, I don't need to be at all involved in
implementation.
I do not at all need to be involved in the management of processes and
systems or the building out of those things or the optimization of
those things.
But it is my role now at the imagination level to be able to
continuously see and visualize the vision, the visionary, and to be
able to communicate that in the now and I can make that a reality.
So then the fallback question really is, it's not about me anymore,
but how do my teams get ahead and how can I build the right systems
and the company structures and the right communication, top two
levels, the right communication so that my team members can get ahead.
Now, keep in mind, at every stage of this career growth, at every
stage of career growth that I mentioned before, those four levels of
value, there is a way to graduate to the next level.
And there is a way to succeed at the current level and the next level.
There is a way to that.
So if you are listening to this right now and you're saying to
yourself, you know, I am at the unification level and I am wondering
how to get to the next level.
Or maybe you're saying to yourself, I'm at the communication level at
the cusp of it right now, I've already been promoted to director, and
I am wondering, how do I grow further?
If you're asking these fallback questions, then I invite you to work
with me every single week I train and I coach individuals on how do I
graduate to the next level of that career growth.
So if that's you and you're serious about committing in yourself,
investing in yourself, and your career growth because you want to have
a legacy contribution, if you do desire that growth and you wanna
know, how do I secure my position now and how can I be able to take
advantage of opportunities that come to the next level and be prepared
for that right now, if you wanna know the process, then below this
description, there is a link to a book of call to talk to someone on
my team.
And this is where we're just gonna explore whether or not it's the
right fit, and it's precisely how we can support you in your
situation.
So if that's you go to the link below, and I look forward to working
with you on the inside.
I'm excited for what you're about to experience when you learn these
strategies and you really, when we really go deep into the blueprint
every week, I train the strategies and the principles on how to go
deep into that blueprint, how to implement that blueprint in your life
and your career right now.
And when you have done that and installed that blueprint, I'm excited
for what you're about to experience and the contribution you can make.
In the next video, I share my five rules on how to prepare yourself
for the executive career path.
And that video is coming right up next.
I'll see you there.