Create Your Own Work Systems then Productize Your Services to Clone Yourself

Series Summary: Your Own Work Systems that Maximize your Reach

As I mentioned in this previous post about business and personal systems, it took me years to realize I had to create my own work system once I left the employment world. The first four articles in this series told you how to start creating your own work systems:

1. Consistency is the Key: Show Up for Work even though You work for Yourself

2. Differentiating Busy Work from Actual Work that helps you Earn More

3. Five Simple Actions that Makes You Move and Get Unstuck

4. Can AI Help Build you Advance your Business even if You are a Non-Tech Person?

Once you are consistently working, I recommended that you productize yourself so you can maximize your reach with these posts:

1. Clone Yourself by Productizing your Services: What it is and Why you Should Start Doing It

2. How to Start to Productize Yourself - An Easy Way to Do It Now

3. Example of a Productize Service for Teachers that you can Easily Duplicate

4. How to Increase Your Profit by Offering Related Products that Complement Your Productized Services

Here at Teacher Career Change, I want you to have career change options that separate yourself from “selling” your limited time through employment or per project payments. That is why I’ve been sharing what I know about productizing yourself. However, before you can effectively productize yourself, you need to need to find out what works for you.

Teacher Career Change is all about creating lasting change that works. That kind of change comes from within and only from YOU: Your Own Understanding. I call it YOUToolBx.

YOUToolBx Concept Validated by Schools 4.0

YOUToolBx was presented to Schools 4.0 which helps educators reimagine learning. Initially, it was intended for classroom teachers so that they can build “their own set of tools that will help them survive and thrive during the New Normal and beyond.” Read more in the post introducing the 2022 4.0 Fellows, just search for me [Sheila] or my project [YOUToolBx] because they awarded 141 educators with business or non-profit ideas.

YOUToolBx for Teacher Career Changers

Now, I am revising YOUToolBx to help you. Unlike step-by-step programs by some self-proclaimed gurus, it has the following guideposts:

1. Acknowledge and find YOU

2. Content versus Process

3. Decomposition - breaking it apart

4. Zoom In and Out

5. Composition - putting it together

6. Your Toolbox

I used some of these terminologies in past posts and will continue to write about it here at Teacher Career Change. Nevertheless, I need to take some time out from weekly publication to work on YOUToolBx. Please subscribe so you’ll be updated.