Use Your Injury As Fuel For Professional Development – 8 Handy Tips

Living with the effects of an injury can be devastating to you and your life. It can feel like a proverbial kick in the teeth when you’ve spend so much time educating, preparing for and completing the responsibilities of your job role. Making sure that you keep on top of your ability to stay at work is hard enough in some instances, without an unforeseen difficulty arising to scupper your plans. 

When the wrong thing affects you, and you do become injured, it can be easy to stay so dazed you’re not sure where to turn. Luckily, this is not a sentence of insignificance in the job market. After you find an injury lawyer and communicate with them the necessity of your case, you should continue in the following ways, so your skills and mind don’t deteriorate as you heal. Thankfully, the internet has become a wonderful boon in this instance.

Here’s how to proceed.

Preventative

Like anything, the best methods of a cure are preventative. While you will most likely not be able to foresee the injury and stop it despite being as careful as you can, there are things you can set up to make an injury happening damaging and difficult but not world-shattering. For example, if you work a highly skilled job which has very specific need of a certain body part, your hands for example during maintenance work, insuring those prior will give you a huge financial claim if your injury otherwise prevents you from using them as well as you once did. This can add to the potential financial freedom you have after experiencing the unfortunate event. Sometimes, preventative thoughts like these can save you a mountain of worry and difficulty when it comes to giving yourself the best and most positive foot forward. 

Report

Reporting is much different to attaining proof. First of all, making sure that people who are significant in your case know about the injury immediately so they can’t claim that your report was ill timed with your claim is important. However, jotting down all of your memories of the event as soon as you are lucid enough to in a handy accident report will give your memory that much needed kick when it comes to the litigation process. It will also serve as the first line of defense in proving that your injury was a difficult ordeal to experience. 

Too often business leaders see injuries regarding difficulty and financial loss their firm will undertake, and fail to see the emotional and career shaping implications of a nasty accident at work. For this reason, a handy and immediate report can give you the grounding you need to base all of your other injury claims from.

Doctor

Of course, stay wise about your medical improvement. If you can, go private, and gather all of the best medical advice you can. Not only will they help you heal, but they’ll help generate reports of your injuries which will allow you to have an official report for the legal proceedings if they are to take place. They will also be able to break down the minimum medical costs for you to bring yourself back up to normal. This is vital when trying to claim on your insurance.

Proof

You’re going to need to prove your injury at work happened because of a neglectful workplace hazard. If it was your fault, you may have a tougher time trying to regain compensation, but as you can never be 100% aware of all of the circumstances that might have gone into the injury you experienced, it’s still worth contacting a lawyer. It’s also worth finding out about how to claim on your workplace hazard insurance, and seeing what you’re eligible for. Becoming out of work due to a circumstance you’d rather avoid demands that you have a relatively stable financial income otherwise your added stress will impede your healing. If you can, bring in witnesses, assess and read the health and safety guidelines of your contract, as well as give yourself the space needed to reflect on how you should proceed, you may be able to acquire compensation you genuinely deserve.

Healing is certainly easier when you have the finances to support it properly.

Refine

The time that you are afforded as a consequence of getting injured is one of the silver linings. It’s likely that staying at home and being separated from your passion can feel like a drag, especially if you were going places. However, if your creative or logical spark is worth maintaining, there’s no reason as to why your ability should simply go on standby. 

All you need is a cheap laptop to stay online and give yourself the space needed to refine your talents. This might be through completing exercises, solving challenges or even taking the time necessary to refine your skills through advanced education – even if your body is injured that doesn’t mean you can’t maintain your mental faculties. In fact, this is an absolute must depending on your ability, because maintaining a healthy mind is twice as difficult when your body is lethargic and finds it difficult to move.

Plan

One of the main reasons people don’t research gaps in the market or draw up plans for their own business is that they simply don’t have the time to. Working a skilled full-time job can take away many hours from your schedule, and that means upon returning home all you want to do is unwind and head to bed. However, now you have time at home to ruminate on your career, this could be the perfect opportunity to use this time and get to grips with that dream you’ve been tossing around in the far reaches of your desire for some time. 

Taking the operations and skills learned and educated about from your current job and thinking “how would I do this differently and better?” will give you the boost needed to truly motivate yourself and take that step forward when you are more able bodied. If you’re not sure where to begin, this time is afforded to you to figure out where that place is. Look for online guides, case studies about business, and enroll in online courses dedicated to giving you that edge you need for practical business sense. 

Businesses in the modern day don’t even need standard offices to begin. You can quite easily run an online content business from the comfort of your own home, such as hosting wordpress blogs for affiliate marketing, or generating coaching videos for eager students hoping to learn from someone already in the industry.

Social

We are social creatures, and need our fix regularly. However, we are also professional social creatures, and it’s likely that an injury which puts you out of the network of your chosen field of work can feel devastating to your professional development. For that reason, it’s important to try and stay as active as you can with the contacts you valued beforehand. While you may have difficulty in contacting the same business accessible people as you did before without mainline access to the firm’s contacting sheets, it’s important to still put your social feelers out there and stay engaged with your or a new professional community. Using online solutions to discuss and keep up to date with the hotly controversial topics in your area of expertise can help you stay and feel relevant in your professional career.

Cast A Wider Net

When we’re too comfortable in a job, it’s so easy to get limited to the corporate culture of the place we invest our time. This is not to criticize those who do or who are currently doing so, many people learn skills to work really well for one firm, and don’t worry about what others are doing because it’s irrelevant to the tasks they have to complete each day. Of course, working in marketing will make this truer than someone working in research and development, but the point still stands. However, now you are injured, you also have another silver lining which means casting your net wider than you did before to acquire new information, see new news topics and become friendlier with the experimental side of the business discipline you are involved in professionally.

Subscribing to podcast feeds and having the time to listen, viewing websites and RSS feeds, as well as seeing how the international community approaches and differs in approach of your mainline business interests are all of the benefits here. This can give you a much wider understanding of the topics you are interested in further, and that only serves to develop your business character so no one can deny your aptitude.

Over time, these tips can help you develop a larger and better understanding of the field you work in, and your professional development will be stimulated by such an endeavor. 

As you become more capable and your healing becomes even more significant, you will be able to step back into the job market or create your own operation with the energy and more disciplined understanding of the fields you enjoy required for success.