REMASTERED: Body of Work, with Pamela Slim (Careers, Sales, Storytelling, Business)
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Even huge institutions that we thought would never fail can fail. And that which we consider to be even a solid, respectable career is not really anything that we can count on.
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One of the nicest people in the world, Pamela Slim. And if you've been in the world of blogs and social media for any amount of time, surely you know Pamela. She is an award-winning author, coach, speaker, and has kind of an interesting story. And her book is called Body of Work. And it gives sort of a fresh perspective on the skills required in the new world of work from both corporate to nonprofit to small business to salespeople to all the above. Pamela, thanks for being on the show. Well, thank you so much for having me. I am delighted to be here. So you say that the quote unquote world of work is no longer predictable. Absolutely. I know salespeople of all people in the world know this because often sales folks are the ones that are right there, you know, talking to customers and working on a deal for a long time and having it fall through at the last minute because, you know, your key contact gets laid off or redeployed somewhere else.
And I've been for about the past 20 years working in the world of business, always on the human side. And as early as the 90s, I was noticing trends as we started to see more waves of layoffs and reorganizations. But I think things really started to pick up steam, especially in 2008, when we all experienced the a huge economic catastrophe that really rallied around the globe. And what was interesting to me as somebody who has worked in and studied the world of work for so long is it felt like there was something that kind of permanently etched reality in all of our minds, which said even huge institutions that we thought would never fail can fail. And that which we consider to be even a solid, respectable career is not really anything that we can count on.
So there's a part of the message, I think, that is just acknowledging the reality. I've always been a very pragmatic optimist where I like to look at the reality and say, truly, as Individual business owners, we can't count on the market staying the same as we've seen through a number of different economic downturns. As corporate employees, we can't count on our organization to stay the same or our customer base or positions. But when we know that, then we can do specific things to actually make ourselves better. indispensable and highly employable, whether we're redeployed within our own organizations when change does happen, or to also be a person if you do end up being laid off that you're highly flexible and you can quickly get another job or have other kinds of business opportunities. And I always say it's by force or by choice.
Being somebody who's been a coach for a long time, I work with a lot of people who are choosing to make a career transition or choosing to start a business or to move up in an organization. But I think given the unstable nature of the economy and of organizations, more and more people will have that path. And so we really do need a new way of looking at our careers. That was really the driving force behind writing body of work is I found I've worked in just about every work mode you can imagine. I've been in the nonprofit sector. I've, uh, you know, run a nonprofit as a volunteer. I worked in corporate. I've been an entrepreneur. I've been a stay at home mom. And, uh, You know, I find that really the way that we can actually, you know, create a strong sense of always being employable is by the narrative that we tell. And if we're looking at the general narrative, which is have you been a stable person, which means that you've been in one organization for a long time. Now, again, even if you want to do that, it's not necessarily possible.
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