Leverage Transition Periods by Learning Marketing

When you are experiencing transitions, find inspiration here.

My supervisor and manager decided to transfer me to another department. However, we had to wait two months for the transfer to go through.

During this period, they couldn't find anything besides an odd task or two for me to do. So I got downtime.

Since they had little for me to do, I decided to leverage my downtime to advance my learning.

One day during this transition, my manager prompted me to focus on career goals. After reflecting, I told her I wanted to pursue a marketing consultant position [as long as I have to work for the company]. I wanted to pursue the marketing consultant position, not because I want to attain the position, but because I want the knowledge marketing consultants have, so I can use that knowledge for my business.

Thus over the two month transition, I completed approximately 142 training modules in the Accenture company portal. You can see my marketing plan entry for this here:

The modules I completed included subjects such as Neurolinguistic Programming, Copywriting, Negotiation, Persuasion, Communication, Writing, Cultures, SEO, Marketing, and Statistics.

I have found ways to use this knowledge for my business. For example, I have used the copywriting training's knowledge to write this site's book pages such as Maverick, Maverick, Maverick: How to Live a Maverick Life, Third Party Babe Rules, and Jim Rohn and Other Motivators Vs. John Piper and Other Calvinists.

During this transition, managers would say, "You must be bored!" Nope! Not only do I never let myself enter the state of boredom, I also wanted to leverage this time for my entrepreneurship goals.

When you want to leverage your transition time, do what I did.