Name: 別怕走彎路：成功職涯從不只是筆直的一條線！ (Your Career Path Doesn't Have to Be a Straight Line)
Uploaded: 2025-10-22T21:01:30.000Z
Duration: 6 min 58 s

When I say career development, what do you think?

當我說職業發展時，你會想到什麼？

現在進行式

You're probably thinking of something like a ladder or something that is very linear.

你可能會想到像梯子一樣，或者非常線性的東西。

And that's pretty much what we've been taught for a very long time.

這基本上也是我們長久以來所學的觀念。

For me, I actually think there's a different way to think about this.

對我來說，我其實認為可以用另一種方式來思考。

I think the right analogy is career development as a rock wall.

我認為更貼切的比喻是，把職業發展看作是一面攀岩牆。

How do you get on the wall and just get started?

A laddar. There's really only one kind of direction that you can go, and that's either up or down.

梯子。只有一個方向可以走，那就是往上或往下。

對大多數人來說，就是一步步往上。

But it can't just be that there is one path and one way to find success,

但成功不應該只有一條路、一種方式，

and navigate your way throughout an organization in order to feel like you're successful.

去穿梭於組織中，才能感覺自己成功。

Essentially, what we want are options and opportunities to define what success looks like for us.

基本上，我們想要的是選擇和機會，去定義對我們而言成功是什麼樣子。

When we think about the rock wall, success may mean moving out, right?

想到攀岩牆，成功可能意味著向外延伸，對吧？

Broadening your scope, not necessarily moving up in terms of leadership.

拓寬你的視野，不一定是領導力上的向上升遷。

Success may look like, hey, I'm going to take a little bit of a step back.

成功可能是：嘿，我要稍微退一步。

Maybe it looks like actually moving something off of your plate.

也可能是把某些工作從你的盤子上移走。

How can we make sure that all of those pieces fit together

我們怎麼確保這些部分能整合在一起，

to say there are lots of opportunities here up and along this wall and different paths that folks are on?

表明這面牆上有很多機會，以及人們走的不同路徑呢？

And that's okay. We can all be on this wall at the same time.

這沒問題，我們都可以同時在這面牆上。

You may be sitting there and in your mind staring up at this rock wall going, how do I tackle this?

你可能坐在那裡，心裡盯著這面牆，想，我要怎麼攀這面牆？

I know that I have certainly been there many points in my career and actually standing in front of rock walls.

我知道我在職業生涯中很多時候都曾站在攀岩牆前。

For me, and again, in this analogy, going up the wall,

對我來說，再回到這個比喻，攀上牆，

I know that the lane that's going to be easiest for me is the one that allows me to power up using my leg strength.

我知道最容易的路線是靠腿力向上。

The second that I need to use my arms, forget it.

I am not going to successfully navigate it.

Now translate that to what your strengths and your opportunity areas are.

現在把這套概念套到你的優勢與機會領域上。

Maybe I've been in the workforce for a while and I have a really strong sense of where I know I knock it out of the park,

也許我已經工作一段時間，很清楚自己擅長哪些地方，

and the places where I know I don't like to spend a lot of time there because it's not a natural strength of mine.

也知道哪些地方我不喜歡花太多時間，因為那不是我的強項。

And then look again at what are the opportunities that are in front of me.

然後再看看我面前有哪些機會。

Ideally, if we're thinking growth mindset, if we're thinking strength-based leadership,

理想情況下，如果我們思考成長心態，或者以優勢為基礎的領導，

then what we're saying is we want you to play to your strengths.

那我們就是希望你能發揮你的優勢。

And as your manager, they're down here looking out for those opportunity areas for you,

作為你的主管，他們在這裡幫你觀察那些機會領域，

but you're just allowed to use your strengths to navigate your way up and around that wall.

但你只需用你的優勢來導航這面牆的上下左右。

If you don't know your strengths, maybe you're a little bit newer to the workforce,

如果你還不清楚自己的優勢，可能你剛進職場，

or you're in a completely new lane that you haven't navigated before.

或者你在一條完全陌生的道路上。

You can kind of think about how kids naturally go up the wall, which is not necessarily looking for one route in particular.

你可以想像孩子們自然地攀牆，不一定尋找特定路線。

Just looking for what's the easiest way for me to get started.

And to start to figure out what does this feel like to navigate my way up here.

然後開始摸索自己往上攀爬的感覺。

And as you start to move up, you might realize, actually, it makes more sense for me to move out a little bit.

當你開始往上走，你可能會發現，向外延伸更適合我。

And when I move out, I'm actually really strong over here.

當我向外延伸，我在這裡特別有力。

When I need to move up, I've got some opportunity areas here.

當我需要向上移動時，這裡有些機會領域。

What do you think about working on those opportunity areas will help you to achieve your goals?

你覺得鍛鍊這些機會領域能幫助你達成目標嗎？

And how can we make sure that you can do that in a psychologically safe environment where it's okay for you to fail?

我們怎麼確保你在心理安全的環境下做到這點，失敗也沒關係？

all right, I'm excited about this challenge that sits in front of me now

好吧，我對眼前的挑戰感到興奮，

because I have an understanding about how I tackle this in the first place.

因為我知道自己最初是怎麼應對的。

Some of this development might look like a step back.

我確實有攀岩經驗，對我來說，

sometimes as I'm making my way up the path, there are some sections where I'm going a little bit faster.

有時候在攀爬過程中，有些段落我走得比較快。

And then I would pause and I would go, nope, I missed something.

然後我會停下來，想，我錯過了什麼。

But when you're backtracking, you have an opportunity to see a slightly different route,

回溯時，你有機會看到稍微不同的路線，

In my own career, I have certainly decided to take a step to the side, a step back and down.

在我的職業生涯中，我確實決定過側步、後退和下移。

I had done some amazing things, had an opportunity to open new offices in the first office for diversity and Multicultural affairs,

我做過一些了不起的事情，有機會開設新辦公室，第一個多元與文化事務辦公室，

and really get into some work that started for me aligning what I ultimately wanted to do with what I believed to be possible.

真正投入一些工作，開始讓我把最終想做的事與我認為可能做到的對齊。

At the same time, I realized there were skill sets that I was missing that I knew if I had those, that I could be even better in my role.

同時，我意識到自己缺乏一些技能，如果我掌握了它們，我在角色中會表現得更好。

It was a hard decision to make, for sure,

but ultimately, the right one to say, I'm actually going to move into another industry to work on that skill set,

但最終是正確的，我決定進入另一個行業，磨練那個技能，

to make it a strength of mine to say, I'm going to do facilitation full-time.

把它變成我的強項，說我會全職做引導工作。

But because I hadn't done that before, you know, technically, on paper, it looked like a step down.

但因為我以前沒做過，技術上來說，從表面上看像是退了一步。

But for me, I knew I was just trying to add to my toolkit to be able to get up that wall.

但對我來說，我知道我只是想增強工具箱，好攀上那面牆。

And actually a bit back on that path that I was just a little further along it.

事實上，在那條路上退一步，我只是稍微走得更遠一些。

There are lots of ways to kind of define success in your career.

職業生涯中有很多方式來定義成功。

It could be simply taking on more scope or stepping into a space that you haven't occupied before.

可以簡單地擴展工作範圍，或者踏入你之前沒有涉足的領域。

We hear it a lot in the tech space as well.

在科技領域我們也常聽到這種情況。

I want to be the best engineer that I can be and I don't necessarily want to manage people.

我想成為最好的工程師，但不一定想管理人。

That doesn't mean that you don't care about the organization,

but it also shouldn't limit the career success that you can have.

但也不應該限制你的職業成功。

It has pushed a lot of organizations to consider, well, what is up and is it actually out?

這促使許多組織思考，什麼是「上升」，而它真的只是向上嗎？

That then allows us to say this is the equivalent of this.

這讓我們可以說，這相當於這個概念。

If success was you go from being an individual contributor to managing one person, to managing a team, to managing a department,

如果成功是從個人貢獻者，到管理一個人，再到管理一個團隊，最後管理一個部門，

can we kind of scope a parallel path for an individual contributor that's "I go from managing my work" to "I go to managing a set of projects,"

我們能否為個人貢獻者設計平行路徑，像是「我從管理自己的工作」到「管理一組專案」，

to "I go to managing a set of key initiatives" that allows for folks to kind of see that scope growth in a very similar way,

再到「管理一組重要計畫」，讓人能以類似方式看到職責成長，

and allows for us to say, yes, you are taking on more.

並讓我們能說：是的，你正在承擔更多責任。

And therefore we can recognize this career ascension that doesn't look exactly the same as it does over here.

因此，我們可以認可這種職業上升，雖然不完全像傳統模式。

The rock wall analogy allows for folks to step outside of some of the more traditional landscape,

岩壁的比喻讓人能跳出一些傳統框架，

step outside of some of the more boxed in feeling that we tend to have around what does success look like and how can I define that success?

跳出我們對成功長什麼樣子和如何定義成功的固有思維框框。

And it allows us to get a little bit more creative in thinking about, hey, actually,

它也讓我們更有創意地思考，嘿，實際上，

if I define success like X, then here is how I can make that happen.

如果我把成功定義為 X，那麼這就是我如何實現它的方法。

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