Get Ready for Your Next Assignment

Your next internal assignment is your next chance to create results for your organization and for your career and a smart investment of time and effort up front can mark the difference between getting by and truly excelling. A key factor in your transition will be knowledge not only substantive information about the project or field, but an understanding of how others inside and outside the organization have tackled similar assignments, what challenges and opportunities lie ahead, what resources are available, and how to mobilize those resources to overcome any obstacles you may encounter. The authors provide practical steps that will help you not only get smart for your next assignment but also stay smart, building knowledge capital to excel in new roles throughout your career. They then expand on those steps, which they call phase zero, learning tour, and affinity groups.