Hi there!
This is Laura Brandenburg from Bridging the Gap.
Today, I want to talk about how to get back on track if your career as a business analyst
falters along the way or gets stuck somewhere.
This can happen if you take a long break, maybe, to take care of children, or aging
parents, or if somewhere along the way your career takes a bad turn and you end up in
a role that wasn't what you started with.
That could happen, as well, if you get laid off, or if your organization starts shrinking
instead of expanding.
So, the opportunities to do new and interesting project work kind of starts to diminish.
No matter how you got here, we're going to talk about how to get you unstuck and how
to make sure your business analyst career is back on track and growing.
Let's jump right in.
I'm going to share five different steps that you can take to walk through this process
of going from not feeling great about where you are in your business analyst career, to
feeling like you're a tried and true solid official business analyst.
The first thing you want to do is just clear out the mental and emotional clutter of being
stuck.
It's easy to get frustrated with your past employers, maybe the projects, or other people
you've worked with, or family members you had to show up for, or whatever it was that
got you off track, to focus on that.
You need to have a little bit of compassion for yourself and for others.
Forgiveness is a great tool to clear that out and let it go.
So, forgive yourself for whatever position you're in now and be ready to move forward.
Do some cleansing and let that old story go so that you can move on and create a new story.
From there, the second thing is to think about recommitting and re-energizing yourself in
your business analyst career.
Think about what is that brought you to this in the first place.
Why did you love business analysis?
What were you so excited about?
Maybe it was that first opportunity that was just something so new and exciting.
I remember, for me, it was like QA was great, but I had gotten kind of stuck in that.
It was the same over and over, and I had a new opportunity for a fresh start and a fresh
role doing higher level responsibilities.
That's something, even today, I'll pull back from.
Why am I doing this?
Oh, right, I remember how exciting that was and how exciting it still is.
One way to do that, if you haven't already, take the business analyst litmus test.
It's in my book, "How to Start a Business Analyst Career," right at the beginning,
because it's so important.
I've also recorded a video about six months ago that has the litmus test, and I read through
it for you.
So, if you don't want to buy the book, you can go and find that video and check that
out as well.
Another way to do that, the litmus test, is just think about your most favorite job that
you've ever had or your most favorite project, not even job.
Because a job can have a lot of parts.
Maybe you like some, and you didn't like other parts.
Think about the best project you ever worked on.
What was that project like?
What was your role?
What were some of the criteria?
What were the people like?
What was the team like?
What kind of things did you work on?
What made that project unique and special?
What made your contribution so amazing?
Use that as a touchstone as you start to think forward and plan out your career goals to
bring that back.
How can you bring that kind of project back into your career?
That's going to set you in the right direction.
That's that recommitment, the re-energizing phase of getting back on track.
The third thing is to start making bigger contributions.
A lot of times we'll wait until somebody will say, "Hey, Laura, can you go ahead
and analyze this process?" or, "Can you solve this problem for us?"
We're waiting for somebody to tell us what to do and how we can be helpful.
They may not even know, especially if you've been frustrated for a while.
They might not know that you have this extra thing that you could do, or this extra desire
or way to contribute more effectively.
Go out and start volunteering to do things that you wouldn't normally do, maybe, aren't
part of your formal job description.
It could be analyzing a process that is problematic.
Start by, even inside your own team or inside your day-to-day work.
It could be host facilitating a meeting of a small group of people to solve a problem.
Whatever it is, just get started.
Don't make a big deal out of it.
Don't over think it.
Just do something that's bigger and better than what you're doing currently.
And make that step up to make that happen.
When you start to step up, good things tend to happen in your career, whether it's in
this opportunity or something else.
The fourth thing is it can be necessary, especially if you've had a long break, to update your
skills, or refresh your skills.
The wonderful thing about business analysis, in my opinion, is your skills are never really
outdated.
So, your communication skills, your ability to analyze requirements, that core competency,
it doesn't change.
Once you're a business analyst, you're always a business analyst, and you've always
got great skills, very transferable skills that you can apply in a business analyst role.
But you might feel a little rusty around them.
You might not quite remember what it's like to go through a big project again.
Participating in some training, or watching videos like this, or reading a few books,
that's a way for you to hit "refresh," you to feel more confident in what it's
going to take to be business analyst.
For you to kind of remember all the cool, fun things that you've done in the past,
even if those things were 10, 15, 20 years ago.
You're bringing that back up and training can help you do that.
The fifth thing is to connect with others.
Make sure that you're finding ways to connect with other business analysts.
Go to your local IIBA chapter meeting if you have one.
If not, maybe it's time to start one in your local community.
Virtually, you can do this online, look for LinkedIn groups, Bridging the Gap has a LinkedIn
Group that you can contribute to.
A lot of the major players in the online space all have LinkedIn Groups around business analysis
where you can connect with other business analysts.
Connect with people, personally, have those conversations, comment on their posts, be
part of the conversations so you feel dialed into and connected with the business analysis
profession instead of feeling like you've got to go this alone.
The business analysis profession is truly a giving, generous, very open community.
And, so, if you feel like you're in this alone, it's because you haven't been looking
for those resources and haven't been taking advantage of all that there is out there for
you.
Go out and start looking for it and participating where you can.
Another way to do this might be to hire a coach or a mentor who's in the business
analysis profession and how can give you that 1:1 support and accountability to go after
your career goals and to set those milestones, and to be moving forward in your career.
Those are five things to be thinking about if you feel like stuck or you're not quite
sure how to get back on track with your business analyst role.
So, my challenge to you, as I would love to hear, what step are you going to take this
week?
Leave a comment below.
This is a great way to get some accountability and build a little bit of that community.
Start to connect with other people who are also leaving comments.
Let us know what are you going to do this week to get back on track?
What's the one thing that you're going to do?
It doesn't have to be huge, but it does have to be a concrete action step that takes
you forward.
Leave a comment below.
I'd love to hear what it is.
Check back in with us when you do it and let us know what you're going to do next.
Again, my name is Laura Brandenburg from Bridging the Gap.
We help business analyst get started in their careers.
Thanks for watching.
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