We are back again, talking about getting your manager engage with your career advancement. But I want to talk about what happens after the meeting you have with your manager, and it doesn't go in the direction you want to go, meaning you don't have a supportive manager, and the things you you can do to still advance your career at your current place of employment. And it happens, haven't had this recent conversation about it. And so I really want to dig in and talk about it. So after you had your meeting with your manager, whether it went positive or negative, you want to send a summary email, and have three to five bullets in there, but keep it high level. And just just really summarize what was discussed, what was agreed upon any action steps that she or he and you are to take needs to be included in that in that summary email, and you want to send it immediately the same day that you do the meeting, unless you just do it at the end of the day, then when you get home, you know, definitely try to sit down and write it out. Or if you're, if you're home right now, right, you can definitely work remotely, you can definitely just go through and write it down later in the evening, or do a voice recording of it. So it transcribes for you whether using your phone, you can use Google Docs, or even something like otter.ai, we should do voice transcription for you just to write it down very quickly for you. So now you've had this discussion with your manager, and he or she is not on board is not supportive of your career advancement discussion in the direction you want to go. Oftentimes, I hear like I talked about manner, they want me to go a completely different way. And I often find that the managers want the women to go in a less technical role than they want to go in. So this is what I advise you to do. Make a list of key decision makers in your organization, right, make a list of influencers, whether they are you currently have relationships with them, or you can build relationships with them. And also determine who your allies are within an organization, if you're newer to the organization. And it's during a pandemic, that can be more challenging to find out. If you're in a larger org, or you have an intranet, you have messenger, you have er G's, employee resource groups, affinity groups, things like that, tap into those to start building out your network and finding out who's who, what's what's what in your organization. And you want to make a list of you know, the direct list of people who can either do introductions to you, in a business unit department division that you want to go to grow your career, that's your career in, or you can reach out to people directly and start building that relationship. So do research on the person or persons using, I don't know, a platform like LinkedIn, and just send a short personalized message. So three to five sentences, and just asking them about themselves, right. So that is what that's the first thing you want to do. Now, during that discussion you had with your manager, you probably discuss gaps between your current skills, and the skills you need for the job you want to you want to have. And they your manager may have said, well, you don't have X, Y, and Z, you're not ready and you want to do the five why's, or why am I not ready. And they'll tell you and eventually they'll tell you some tools, tactics, it's a personal stuff you need to work on. Now you want to take all of that the gaps that were discussed in that meeting, and really assess whether or not they're valid. And so you can ask other people. And and if you find that you you know, those gaps are valid, then go through and find out resources internal to your org that you can tap into, to then grow, to get get that experience to get that exposure. All right. It's a lot of times they have professional, different budgets for different trainings, is that training programs and so forth that you can join, sometimes it's just membership to maybe your Toastmasters and they have one within your organization probably meeting remotely right now during the pandemic. But either way, you want to tap into that and utilize those tools. Who's especially as free, and also using the budget training budget within your organization to help fill those gaps. All right. I know that was a lot. So number one, you want to do a summary with your manager to discuss the highlights of everything you discussed in a meeting. There, he or she is not supportive of where you want to advance your career in the organization. So you need to find out who are the key people for you to know influencers and as as well as allies within your organization. And, third, go ahead and look at the gaps that you need to fill to go to the next role. And so you're going to work on those, even though it hasn't been supported by your manager and figure out ways to get some of those gaps fill some of those trainings done, whether it's on your internal educational portal memberships that you may have, whether it's I Tripoli, ASC e ASME, whatever that is. And I'm really using those memberships now, to help those fill those gaps. So don't give up. There are definitely workarounds when your manager is not supporting you. So I will be back and we'll be talking more about things you can do to advance your career and you literally driving the direction you want to go
and making it more strategic as you grow your career. All right. I will talk to you later. Have a great day.