橫向調(diào)動(dòng):陽(yáng)關(guān)道還是死胡同?
????親愛(ài)的安妮:四年前,我剛從大學(xué)畢業(yè)就加入了現(xiàn)在的公司。之前,我暑假也在這家公司實(shí)習(xí)過(guò)。如今一切都很順利。但公司剛剛給我安排了一個(gè)新職位,我正在考慮要不要接受,希望您能給我一些建議。這個(gè)新崗位不是升職,而是橫向調(diào)動(dòng),要到一個(gè)相對(duì)較新的部門(mén)擔(dān)任副主管。這看上去是一個(gè)很好的機(jī)遇,我不僅能增加經(jīng)驗(yàn),還能拓展人脈。 ????但我還是禁不住懷疑,這個(gè)職位是否是一條死胡同?接手新職位之后,我將離開(kāi)現(xiàn)任公司高管們所遵循的職業(yè)軌跡。面對(duì)橫向的職位調(diào)動(dòng),應(yīng)該如何辨別它能否帶來(lái)職業(yè)上的晉升呢?現(xiàn)在我有權(quán)選擇是接受新職位還是留守老職位,部門(mén)經(jīng)理給了我兩個(gè)星期的時(shí)間來(lái)做決定。——匹茲堡帕蒂 ????親愛(ài)的P.P.:大蕭條之后,許多公司規(guī)模都出現(xiàn)了大幅精簡(jiǎn),管理層級(jí)越來(lái)越少,這也使得縱向升職機(jī)會(huì)十分難得,因此很多人都面臨著你現(xiàn)在的處境。一般情況下這是好事?!皬暮芏喾矫鎭?lái)看,橫向調(diào)動(dòng)都是非常好的機(jī)會(huì),尤其是當(dāng)這個(gè)職位能為你帶來(lái)公司很看重的某項(xiàng)經(jīng)驗(yàn)時(shí),”位于加利福尼亞州帕薩迪納市的國(guó)際企業(yè)培訓(xùn)公司(Corporate Coaching International)CEO洛伊絲·弗蘭克爾說(shuō)。這家公司擁有眾多《財(cái)富》美國(guó)500強(qiáng)客戶,包括迪士尼(Disney)、寶潔(Procter & Gamble)、洛克希德馬丁公司(Lockheed Martin)等。 ????然而不幸的是,弗蘭克爾指導(dǎo)過(guò)的許多管理者中,也有人在接受橫向調(diào)動(dòng)之后,職業(yè)生涯出現(xiàn)了停滯?!霸诹私庖粋€(gè)工作之前,千萬(wàn)不要隨便就接受”,弗蘭克爾說(shuō)。“想搞清楚某個(gè)橫向調(diào)動(dòng)是不是死胡同,唯一的辦法是提前收集大量有關(guān)新職位的信息?!?/p> ????你提到這個(gè)新職位在一個(gè)相對(duì)較新的部門(mén),那么現(xiàn)任高管們?cè)谏毲?,這個(gè)部門(mén)可能還不存在。因此,他們的職業(yè)軌跡對(duì)你并沒(méi)有參考價(jià)值。弗蘭克爾建議,想避免走入“冷宮”,你可以參考下面這些問(wèn)題。 ????1.大體上,你們公司如何看待橫向調(diào)動(dòng)?在某些公司中,跨業(yè)務(wù)部門(mén)工作,包括接手一兩個(gè)國(guó)際職位,相當(dāng)于“通過(guò)驗(yàn)證”。弗蘭克爾說(shuō):“它被認(rèn)為是成為未來(lái)高管的必要步驟?!比欢诹硗庖恍┕纠?,卻不是這么回事??纯垂纠锏拿餍歉吖軅儯麄兪遣皇钦谶M(jìn)行橫向調(diào)動(dòng)?或者之前是否有過(guò)橫向調(diào)動(dòng)的經(jīng)歷?還是只經(jīng)歷過(guò)縱向的調(diào)動(dòng)? ????2.這個(gè)職位的前任后來(lái)命運(yùn)如何?問(wèn)問(wèn)別人這個(gè)職位的前任身上發(fā)生過(guò)什么,如果他/她得到了升職,或者跳到了公司內(nèi)部其它好職位,那很好。但如果這個(gè)職位的前任——更壞的是前面好幾任——都要么辭職,要么被炒魷魚(yú),那就是很明顯的兇兆?!爱?dāng)心任何發(fā)生過(guò)太多‘地震’的職位,”弗蘭克爾說(shuō)。有時(shí)候問(wèn)題出在這個(gè)職位的頂頭上司,而這會(huì)導(dǎo)致…… ???? |
????Dear Annie:I started with this company right out of college four years ago, after doing a summer internship here, and so far everything's going great. Now, I've been offered a job that I'm wondering whether to take, and I could use some advice. It would be a lateral move, into the second-in-command spot in a relatively new division, rather than a promotion, and it seems like an interesting opportunity to expand my experience and my network. ????Still, I can't help wondering if the job might be a dead end, since it takes me off the usual career path that people in senior management have followed here. How do you tell the difference between a lateral move that will lead upward eventually and one that probably won't? I do have a choice about whether to do this or stay where I am (for now), and our division head has given me two weeks to decide. --?Patty in Pittsburgh ????Dear P.P.:With companies running so much leaner now than before the recession, vanishing layers of management have made?promotions hard to come by, so plenty of people are finding themselves in your shoes. Often, that's fine. "Lateral moves can be great for all kinds of reasons, especially if they give you a chance to gain new experience that's important to your company," says Lois Frankel, CEO of Corporate Coaching International, a Pasadena, Calif.-based executive development firm that numbers Disney (DIS), Procter & Gamble (PG), and Lockheed Martin (LMT) among its many?Fortune 500?clients. ????Unfortunately, Frankel has also coached people who took a step sideways only to find that their careers had stalled out. "Never take any job offer without checking it out first," she says. "The only way to tell whether a lateral move leads to a dead end is to gather lots of information beforehand about the situation you'd be stepping into." ????Since you say the division where you'd be going to is relatively new, it may not have been part of the company when the current crop of senior managers was on its way up, so their career path doesn't tell you much. To steer clear of a possible corporate backwater, Frankel suggests asking the following questions: ????1.?How are lateral moves in general regarded where you work?At some companies, working in several different business units, including taking on an international assignment or two, is equivalent to "getting your ticket punched," Frankel notes. "It's considered necessary for future senior managers." At other firms, however, not so much. Take a look at the stars at your own organization. Are they making, or have they made, moves similar to the one you're weighing now, or only upward ones? ????2. What has happened to the person(s) who had the job before?If you ask around and find out that he or she is being promoted, or is moving to some other interesting job in-house, great. But if your predecessor -- or, worse, the past several -- quit or was fired, clearly that's a sign of trouble ahead. "Beware of any job where there has been a lot of 'churn,'" Frankel says. Sometimes the problem is the boss you'd be working for, which brings us to ... |
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