10 Steps to Creating a Portfolio Career
From the category archives:
Interesting blog posting which spells out the variety of roles for which musicians could get paid. Wouldn’t it be good to take careers outside of the music world and to plot the possible different roles in one’s portfolio bag? Any suggestions? Good one this for a possible discussion on our portfolio careers linked in group.
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Seth Godin never fails to stimulate – even if you disagree. I don’t know about you but I am getting heartily fed up of negative media, scared politicians and whining individuals (”its all doom!” “We’re all going to die!”) Well at least the latter is true. Crazy times in history have always been times that [...]
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At this time in the New Year many portfolio workers will be hoping that they will be given opportunities for saying ‘yes’! However, as your career develops it does become an increasing problem and so we are delighted to welcome another guest poster. Jennifer Holloway is one of the best consultants that I know who [...]
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As you know we welcome guest postings and this week I was delighted to meet up with Gail Gibson who is one of the most prolific contributors to our linkedin portfolio careers site. Gail came up with the lovely visual metaphor of a portfolio career as a multicoloured umbrella and uses this now on [...]
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Great piece in Fast Company magazine firstly talking about ‘broken tile syndrome’ – read it and see. And then about the fact that most of us are much more skilled in complaining than we are at giving positive feedback.
As portfolio workers often moving in and out of organisations we have great opportunities of ‘catching people [...]
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We have posted on this topic before and pointed you towards the wonderful Harvard University address by JK Rowling. Because portfolio workers are ‘putting themselves about a bit’ rather more than people with more traditional career patterns, being turned down for projects and work is not an uncommon experience. What we do know is how [...]
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If you have read our book you might recall this illustration of someone who enjoys what we call a serial career pattern. This is a person who no matter how well they are doing and how much they have enjoyed their work every 5,6 or 7 years get bored and in need of a new [...]
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Getting You Heard
1. Step away from your computer! Start analogue.
2. Think AUDIENCE – what are they like? Audience Map.
3. BIG MESSAGE – taking audience FROM > TO
4. content on stickies…. Or write longhand first
5. Create a story and flow (information NOT EQUAL to story)
6. Visualise the story – simple storyboard
7.signal to noise ratio ( turn [...]
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There is always another way to do the work, life, spirit, money, family thing….
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Fascinating discussion started up on our portfolio careers Linkedin group by Rachel Brushfield around how easy is it for a portfolio worker to create a personal brand that works cross ALL strands of one’s career? When we interview portfolio workers we do of course find many for whom it is possible to identify a common [...]
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