Having The Confidence To Shape Your Future - with Rob Kerr

In this week's episode Lucinda is joined by Rob Kerr, the author of the forthcoming book, 'Project Future: 6 Steps to Success as Your Own Boss'. Discussing how to have the confidence to shape your future, Rob talks us through the number of practical models the book contains, and how they can positively impact your existing career, or energise a new direction. Furthermore, how all change begins by instilling a sense of confidence within ourselves. KEY TAKEAWAYS The main impact of COVID is that businesses are now working with a wide range of unknowns. Indeed, changes planned for the future are suddenly being rapidly adopted and fast-tracked. When considering the place in the world that your business will occupy, there are things to consider: Examine your openness to change, your mind-set in this field, and a self-evaluation of your career to date. Look at the “impact factor”, the effects that will be felt by those dependent on you both financially and emotionally, such as family or other dependants. Certainly, if we wish to think about starting our own independent HR careers now, we must consider the problems we wish to solve, who we are solving them for, and why you are the person to do it. Laying solid foundations, recognising our areas of expertise, and developing in our current roles whenever possible, will allow us, at any stage in our careers, to shape our own futures and build a better destiny for ourselves.  BEST MOMENTS ’The main issue that HR professionals say is holding them back is a lack of confidence' ’Small steps and improvements are what help us to grow, more than any kind of radical shift' ‘I’m a big believer that change brings opportunity’ ‘Being clear on what you want to do, will help convince somebody to say yes'  VALUABLE RESOURCES Host of The HR Uprising Podcast, Lucinda Carney, is also the founder and CEO of Actus Software, where you can find additional free HR Resources: https://actus.co.uk/free-performance-management-resources/ The HR Uprising Podcast | Apple | Spotify | Stitcher   The HR Uprising LinkedIn Group Change Superhero Resources Book: How To Be A Change Superhero - by Lucinda Carney Free Change Toolkit: www.changesuperhero.com Latest Performance Management Blog   ABOUT THE GUEST   Rob Kerr is a crackerjack at asking questions. His project management career has laid the foundations for asking questions that align to his true purpose – working with aspiring business owners to create businesses that solve the problems they care about.  Rob is the creator of the FUTURE Method, an innovative and contemporary approach to planning and starting a business. The FUTURE Method is presented in his book, ‘Project Future - 6 Steps to Success as Your Own Boss’, to be published on 5th January 2021 and available now for pre-order from all good booksellers.  Rob works with individuals directly and through an employer, offering a range of redundancy outplacement services to empower those interested in starting a business to make the right decision for their future, and if it’s right, use redundancy as a springboard to success as their own boss.  Away from business, Rob loves to run and travel. He is originally from Essex and lives in London with his wife and two children.    Rob Kerr - LinkedIn Website: www.robkerr.co.uk Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/groups/projectfutureclub   ABOUT THE HOST   Lucinda Carney is a Business Psychologist with 15 years in Senior Corporate L&D roles and a further 10 as CEO of Actus Software where she worked closely with HR colleagues helping them to solve the same challenges across a huge range of industries. It was this breadth of experience that inspired Lucinda to set up the HR Uprising community to facilitate greater collaboration across HR professionals in different sectors, helping them to ‘rise up’ together. “If you look up, you rise up” CONTACT METHOD Join the LinkedIn community - https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13714397/ Email: Lucinda@advancechange.co.uk Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucindacarney/ Twitter: @lucindacarney Instagram: @hruprising Facebook: @hruprising HR podcast, The HR Uprising, Diversity, Equality & Inclusion, Learning and Development, Culture & Change: https://hruprising.com/hr-podcasts/

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Welcome to the HR Uprising Podcast. This engaging podcast explores HR ‘hot’ topics and challenges through conversations with relevant experts and real-life HR; O.D. or L&D professionals. HR Uprising is about creating an inclusive forum that enables us to share and learn from experts and everyday professionals. Hosted by Actus CEO Lucinda Carney a Business Psychologist; Chartered Psychologist; Experienced HR Change Agent; Entrepreneur; Speaker and Coach. There are two types of show formats: The ‘In focus’ episodes where Lucinda delves into a specialist topic in some depth and the ‘Conversations with’ series where we interview experts and people like you. Our hope is that our shows are both informative and fun. The HR Uprising Podcast is all about learning through collaboration; taking evidence-based action and helping colleagues to have the confidence and skills to rise-up through their organisations by delivering real, lasting business value.  You can access more information on each Podcast including resources or links mentioned in the show at our website www.hruprising.com. If you are a forward-thinking HR; L&D or O.D. professional who has a success story or challenge that others can learn from and you would like to be featured in future podcasts you can get in touch through one of the routes below. Connect with us here:                                                                                                                      Join the LinkedIn community: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13714397/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucindacarney/  Instagram: @hruprising | Facebook: @hruprising | X (Twitter): @hruprising | YouTube: @ActusSoftware    Lucinda is the founder and CEO of Actus Software, which offers a fully integrated HR solution designed to simplify performance management. Our comprehensive Performance, Learning, and Talent Suite enhances employee development and engagement. For more information, please visit our website at www.actus.co.uk and request a free demo from one of our HR experts. Our products include: Performance Management, Learning Management (LMS), Talent Management, 360 Feedback and Survey, Onboarding, HRIS and HR Compliance.  Connect with Actus here: LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/2400060/admin/dashboard/  Instagram: @actussoftware | Facebook: @actussoftware | YouTube: @ActusSoftware | X (Twitter): @ActusSoftware Lucinda also offers bespoke, high-quality HR training through Actus’ learning solutions. Topics include: Dealing with Underperformance, Managing for High Performance, Change Superhero Training and Bite Size Training. For more information see the Training section on the Actus website.