Self Care for Business Analysts!
hey everybody this is Karaleise what's up what's up what's up i am out here in the woods y'all out here in the woods in the cabin i'm ready for the weekend just to relax and unwind and take a break so i thought before i leave here which we're gonna leave soon to go see some more waterfalls i wanted to do this quick video to talk about something very appropriate for this kind of setting which is self-care self-care as a business analyst as a professional as a working person self-care is very important and we always sometimes overlook it but in this video we're going to talk about some of those things that you need to be doing and how to handle the stress at work and the the the things that you have to do you feel like you have to do but really you can do them at the experience of your own self right so that's what we're talking about today i'll be right back okay so this is my weekend away this is my uh escape that i have decided to do um it's really cool up here it's like way high in the mountains you'll never find this place i literally went when i came up here i was like okay this is where they film those horror movies right it's super dark at night um really far away up in the woods no one will ever find you but if you really want an escape or you want to just chill and you want to be at one with nature this is also the place for that so we had fun we have a hot tub outside we had roasting marshmallows by the fire there is wild animals we haven't seen them but we've been told that they are here so we're looking out for that as well i didn't bring jackson because i'm scared of bald eagles swooping down and grabbing him or maybe a hawk or something i don't know but i didn't bring the dog because i was i just can't keep my eyes on my my daughter and also my dog i left him with a dog sitter so he should be having fun because where i left him he has all the dogs to play with so not worried about that but this is great it's not too far from the city um even though it's up in the mountains you can easily get to the highway when you come off the hill so i mean it's it's i think it's a great highway spot so that's that's where i am that's the setting you're looking at here in the background so let's get back to the topic of the video which is self-care as a business analyst self-care so this is what i'm doing to do some self-care because i've been working very hard over the last month as you guys know i launched the book go check out my book y'all this is going to give you an unfair advantage to get your next business analyst job and even if you want to switch careers let's say you want to do something in a different career you can see which careers actually are great because they already use the business analysis skills that you have so check out my book it's available on amazon but you can also get it from the link i'm going to put in the description if you click it from that link you will get a downloaded package that comes with the book which is some templates some resources some information that you can't get if you buy it on amazon because you know amazon is like this is the book is all you can get but with the other website i can package other things to give you additional resources to make sure that you can be successful so go check out my book it's really a report it's called the business analyst job market report it's a research i did with extensive data from linkedin to find out what are employers looking for when they're hiring business analysts now what are some of the answers that business analysts can get that they've been wanting to know about employment and the job market in general for business analysts it's very immensely valuable i mean every question you could possibly have i believe i've answered it i think so right but if you find something that you haven't seen answered there you can let me know but i think i've answered the majority of the questions i've gotten from youtube comments some emails i've gotten from consultations i've done from speaking engagements i've done and from just looking at other people's websites and what other questions they're asking out there so i think it's a lot of value so go check it out in the description and get that report y'all get the report so i did that i was also working on you know i'm doing consultations now so people can book some time with me you can do that on my website you go to Karaleise.com there is a section that says you know schedule an appointment you can find some time on my calendar and we can have a session there where i can help to guide you with some things maybe you have an interview coming up for business analyst job maybe you're working already but you need some guidance on a specific thing maybe writing requirements maybe writing you the stories you need some help there i could do that maybe you have um just wanted to start your career you want to figure out what are the steps that you should take i do those kind of consultations and you're always going to be individual so i want to know what is your specific problem and i find that out with a 50-minute free consultation first and then the paid session is where i use the information you told me and i've i craft um a package that can help you and answer the questions that you're having and you know fill the gap that you're having specifically to you so it's very very personalized it's one-on-one right it's not a group thing so there's that um i also did the fit model i think most of you have seen that where it's a test that you can do to find out if you are a fit for business analysis so okay what would make you a fit well maybe there are some things that you're already doing in your life that is going to be conducive to being a business analyst so when you make the switch to that career you already have these init rates so what are those in your trade so the fit test is built to uncover what you're already doing to see if your your behavior already is going to be helpful for you to become a business analyst so you don't have to learn any new business analysis skills you don't have to do no course you don't have to be you don't have to change anything in your life you just need to take the test and it's going to analyze you based on what you're already doing so i did that model and i thought that was very successful we've had many people do the test um and we have an average score at the end of the test you get your results immediately it tells you exactly what your results are i also email the results to you so you can have it in your email and then you can see what your score is compared to the scores of others who took the test so you can see where you lie compared to the other people we've had over 200 and more people take the test so far and there is an average score so you get the results immediately so this is not a test where you do it and then you have to pay some money and you know you can't see what you what your result is now it's all free okay it's all free you go to Karaleise.com you click on the fit test model you take the test and it takes you maybe 15-20 minutes because it's very thought-provoking you have to think about some of the answers um you take the test for 15 minutes and at the end of the test you get your results right away and then there's some additional next steps i provide to say okay if you've gotten your results could either be a fit it could be a low fit mean that you're probably not gonna be very successful in this career you probably should look elsewhere you could be a fit where you're like borderline you basically make the cut but you're not really exceptional you're just doing enough then you have a good fit where yeah you have a lot of good things that are gonna be great if you can just hone those skills some more then you have an excellent fit this is great like you already you're killing it already right you're doing great this is amazing and then you have perfect fit i don't expect anybody to be a perfect fit however i have had maybe two or three people hit the perfect fit score and so i was blown away like who is the perfect fit just out the gate like that but yeah there are people like that so um you can go to carlys.com and take that fit test just to analyze yourself and do a self-evaluation before you spend all the money and do all the courses make sure that you know that this is something that you will fit your personality already right so i've done that and i've done another thing in my personal life which i've switched jobs right so i was working very hard in a small company again i love small companies because small companies gives you a lot of room for growth you can get decisions made very quickly you can see all how all the pieces work together for the business there's just a lot of benefits so i really do love working with small companies startups um size companies in particular i'm very i have a lot of affection for those business models so i was working a small company um doing a lot of work there i started there they were not as great in terms of their processes and the business analysis part of it and i went in there i was able to bring them to a very higher standard i would say that when i left i feel like i i have given them more and they were in a better position than they were when i started so i i was with that small company i got approached by another company and it was a great deal so i took it i took it and so i'm starting a new job and just making a switch like that you know in a very short time launching a book doing the fit test model starting um um a consultation service it's a lot and i did all of this within the month of april so you know it's a lot and so i was working really hard i had deadlines at work i had a lot of things to do and i wasn't getting a lot of sleep i was sleeping like you know four hours four hours a night if if so much i'd wake up early in the morning try to finish one thing to start another thing everything had a big you know hard deadline i had to meet and so i was just running like running on the way running on the wheel running on the wheel you'll see i didn't make a lot of videos in the month of april because i'm just doing so much stuff and so i thought to myself i need a break at the end of april i was like you know okay i think i've hit the mark on all the things i needed to get done one thing with me if i commit to it i'm doing it if it means i'm going to sleep two hours a night to get it done i will because i am very committed so if i come into something i have to get it done and i have to get it done in high quality so i did all of that and it was at the expense of my my well-being right self-care going back to the topic of the video it was at the expense of my self-care i wasn't spending time with my daughter as much she ended up spending a lot of time by herself but she's the only child which is sad and wearing a pandemic there's not much kids that can come over um so you know it was it was very very difficult my voice is going sorry guys it was very difficult so i had to take a break and this is the way i took a break right i just just packed up my stuff decided to go as far as i can with civilization at least in the mountain part of it because this this cabin is high in the mountain but as soon as you get off the hill you're actually on the main road so um it feels far away but really it's not that much physically far away um so i did that and so now i'm here and i wanted to talk to you guys about the self-care too because in my case i work very very hard and i'm very very dedicated but then i play very very hard and when it's time to have fun i'm all in as well right i'm all in so it's that dichotomy that i have but i don't know if it's a good thing to work you know work yourself to the bone and have lots of fun for a short time and they will accept the bone again and have yourself have a short short break with lots of fun too um i think it might be better to balance right so i want to talk to you guys about balancing and something i'm going to learn for myself as well where you have to think about the fact that nothing is more important than you your job is not more important than you sometimes leave your community more important than you because when you're working on something it might seem that this is the most important thing for the company this is the most important project you have to get it done the clients are waiting on it and you feel immense pressure and immense responsibility for it but the truth is that you know management could make a decision tomorrow and the project is done and all that heavy work that you did that sleepless night that you had you know in collecting your family and all that stuff for nothing right so you can remember that if you're an employee you work for a company they make the decisions at the end of the day and so you could be thinking that this is really important but it's not as important if they decide it's not important anymore they can make a change like that on a whim so you have to remember to um to make yourself important and not value your job and the jobs the work that you're doing for your job over just your own self and your self-care in other words don't be a complete workaholic okay don't be a complete workaholic because work decisions will be made and some of them don't always remember that you have putting so much work into it and they may decide to cancel the project because it's not financially viable or some other team takes it over or whatever so you give your all whenever you're working on something you always make sure your work is high quality but not at the expense of your own health and i know this is obvious but you'd be surprised how many people like just how so committed especially as female we are very perfectionist sometimes we want it to get done properly we want it to be great we want to put all our effort into it because we feel we're going to be recognized for that and we're working harder against our meal um co-workers sometimes review competition like that so don't don't do that right don't don't value the work that you're doing over your own self it's not it's not good um take breaks like take breaks during the day and take breaks on weekends if you can find a weekend away um do it right i know sometimes it's expensive but you know you need to value your own self so that you don't end up running running running down you you'll have burnout you will have burnout and it's not good right other thing to guard against is working harder doesn't always mean that you're going to be more successful working harder doesn't always mean you're going to be more successful it's really working smarter so if you're working really hard at something you're coming out with a lot of things you're outputting a lot you're delivering a lot and you're doing a lot sometimes what that does is they pad more onto your plate because you're like oh you can get this done within such a short time okay cool i'm going to give you twice as much and you get that done oh great give it some more and so you end up just taking on more and taking on more and taking out more to the point where you're expected to deliver at this rate and then it just becomes like extra pressure that you don't need to have and you just start feeling burdened and you just start burning out because if you allow them to pile the work on you and you don't say anything they will keep doing it because you know you're an employee especially if you're a salaried employee they'll try to get the most out of you so you have to pace yourself at some time so work hard work give good quality work when it's needed but be ready to pull back right and make sure that you're not um allowing yourself to be overburdened unnecessarily and also um i you know in line with this knowing to stop working hard knowing to stop working hard i'll give an example what this could look like it could be that you're working really hard on something and you're really interested in it you love it so you just want to keep going and you you've found another satisfaction in it but sometimes you end up doing other people's jobs you end up doing other people's jobs and you like that because you're exposing yourself to other departments you're learning more so personally you're developing by doing that and so you don't really care if people think you're doing other people's jobs but the more you do that the less the organization can see where there's a gap like if you're doing two persons jobs they don't realize that this is another person's job for them to go higher for that job they just think you can do it and so you end up spreading yourself too thin and you end up doing so much and you feel like you're going to be appreciated for it sometimes you are and sometimes you are not sometimes they just see you as a workaholic that they can throw the load on and they just have fun and go on their skiing trips and enjoy their life because you're doing the job for them so be very careful not to be such a good worker that you pigeonhole yourself into doing multiple people's jobs and then you don't get the benefit or the appreciation that you deserve for it at the expense of your own care at the expense of your own health at the expense of your family because now you've you've set the bar so high that you have to keep reaching further over that bar and they're just not pulling their weight because you can do it for them so be very careful of um knowing that and knowing to stop so if if i'm working on a project and i see that i'm doing a lot of stuff and it's been appreciated and people are grateful for it i feel encouraged to do it and i might keep doing it but it's really not good so this is advice i'm taking for myself it's really not good you need to let each person's role um do the job that they're supposed to do so the management can see that they need a person in this role and you're helping somebody else get employed you're going to help someone get that job because you're not trying to fulfill every gap that you see right because just because of your good will you'd want to do that but it's not always a good thing to do the other thing that you should look at when you think about pulling back is look at the environment that you're working in look at the people you're working for look at how the management and leadership is treating everyone if you're in a company where they encourage everyone see everybody whether they perform or not get encouraged encouragement could be just saying thank you for things you know highlighting people's performances in maybe company newsletters or company meetings or whatever the encouragement could be just within the team even having a team meeting and talking about the accomplishments that they have made if you see that happening that's a good sign if you see where they um they encourage everyone and tell people thanks and show them appreciation they also praise good behavior so you're coming in earlier leaving late which is bad but if they're like recognizing oh we thank you for the extra work that you did by staying later or whatever that's like praising a good be well good for them but a behavior that they they appreciate i guess um or you've just you know turned in something delivered something earlier than you were supposed to or you got a client to sign up and they were about to turn or something i don't know whatever good behavior that you have been able to demonstrate and you found that they wreck you know they they praised it that's a great sign to keep doing it if you find they recognize performance so when you've really done something that helps the company make more money maybe you've improved that process to reduce the waste and so you have saved um in expenses because of that or you've gotten you've done such good customer service that clients want to come back and you know upsell and buy more things whatever whatever the performance is that has been measured if you've been able to help them get to that performance level you you've personally been able to deliver things and your phone has been recognized and this recognition could be in different ways they could give you a gift card that i mean this is like monetary recognition i'm talking about or some kind of physical thing not just oh this is a great job but it's lip service no i'm talking about recognizing it giving you a gift card giving you a hotel with your family to go somewhere a ski trip here um to the beach here like whatever if they're recognizing the performance and giving you something to show that they recognize it that's a great time to keep going that's a great sign but if you're in a company where none of this is happening they're not encouraging everyone right just generally the company doesn't recognize that they don't give thanks they don't show appreciation they just you're just working working working and you feel like you're just a um like a laborer like you're just working and the work that you do is great but nobody recognizes it and nobody encourages it nobody appraises the good behavior that's a good sign to pull back and just do what you're paid to do okay so that's going to help you with your self-care because you're not going to be giving so much and feel like you're getting a little bit in return or nothing in return and it won't cause you to feel so uh unappreciated for example so the mental way that you care for yourself as well as the physical way as well as just de-stressing it's very important because if we are into being quality business analysts which everybody who follows me i always challenge you to be right so i think that everybody who follows me is a high quality super intelligent above average intelligence person right who's working very hard and is doing a great job if you're one of those people and you're following me and you're seeing that these are the things that are happening in your environment and you're working really hard you're doing a lot you're not going to recognize pull back that's the time to pull back and just do what you're supposed to do that way you preserve your mental state and your physical state and if you can get away for a weekend or take a vacation or something your vacation is very important it's very important for your self-care right so you don't have to wait until you accumulate those days some companies you have to accumulate certain days before you can take a break but you always most of us in in the carpet world we have our weekends right so you can plant something around your weekend plan something around the holiday and take a break and enjoy and relax recharge you know breathe strategize and be better as a professional so i just wanted to share that with you i hope that was helpful and we are gonna go pack our things and head out we're gonna go see some falls like i said earlier and we're probably gonna just walk around and look at some tourist stuff in the city from where we are it's a very touristy city and there's a lot of you know arts and you know crazy stuff to look at but you know there's a river also we can eat or lunch and look over the river and see stuff like that maybe i'll go in the river myself who knows i'm here to have fun right that's what i'm doing okay guys well this was great i will see you guys next time in the next video take care check out the book check out the the report the business analyst job market report it's going to be helpful for you i promise so go check that out either you want to get it on amazon or on the link i'm going to share and get the information to help you to be successful in your next business analyst job take care guys i'll see you next time
2021-05-19 14:05
