“You can have a fulfilling, engaged, successful, passionate work life,” Cie Murray told members of the Women’s Alumni Network.

Murray, MBA 98, imparted advice from her book, Got the Power: 7  Tools To Produce the Work Life You Want, at an evening presentation at the Alumni House in late September. She is the president of Murray Empowerment Systems Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in empowering employees and improving work force performance.

In her book and her seminars, Murray recommends the use of the Thinker Locator Profile, a systematic tool she developed to help workers determine how they naturally work and tackle problems.

“When workers utilize the Thinker Locator, they are able to be their best selves, do their best work and produce their best results,” Murray said.

Visioner is another tool she emphasized. “It is important to establish a vision or a picture of the results you want in the workplace by saying what you want,” Murray said.

Don’t focus on the blind spots, she said. Instead, write a vision statement. Put that vision statement where you can see it and say it out loud every day.

“When you take your eyes off your prize, many times your prize will never get realized,” Murray said.

Choose to make the right moves in the workplace, she said. “It’s not about the big things that can cause us to not get what we want out of our work life. It’s actually the choices and decisions that we make when the challenges occur.”

When reprimanded by the boss, shake it off. When a rejection letter is received, shake it off, Murray counseled. “You listen to your voice mail and the love of your life says, ‘It’s over, baby.’ What do you do? Shake it off. Shake off the feelings of resentment, disappointment, powerlessness, fear.

“We don’t control our circumstances, do we? But we do control our responses,” Murray said. “Shaking it off gives you time to withhold your emotions and feelings so you can really take a step back and make the right moves. Many times we think the right move might be to change jobs. Many times it’s about changing our attitudes.”