In my March blog, I gave you 9 tips for starting career conversations. Some of the most important career enhancing conversations are about getting meaningful feedback – observations of the impact of what you’re doing both successfully and things that could be done better. Do others share the same opinion of you and your workContinue reading “5T Approach for Career Conversations”
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What’s Your Professional Development Strategy?
The most frequent responses I get to this question is #1 Strategy: keep getting a paycheck and hope to get promoted;#2 Strategy for Free Agents: Keep current contract(s) or get new clients. I consider these non-strategies. Too many people approach learning something work-related as a task they have to do to keep their jobs orContinue reading “What’s Your Professional Development Strategy?”
How do I Become an Expert?
Organizations depend on people who have “deep smarts”—business-critical expertise, built up through years of experience, which helps them make wise, swift decisions about both strategy and tactics. These mavens may be technical wizards, risk managers, top salespeople or operations troubleshooters, but they are all the “go-to” people for a given type of knowledge in theirContinue reading “How do I Become an Expert?”
A Crystal Ball – Skills for Now and the Future
A research report from Apollo Research Institute gives us a crystal ball for looking towards 2020. “Future Work Skills 2020” I like the way this report takes the major global trends and matches them with the skills workers need to thrive now and going forward. Its very useful for the many people needing to re-skill,Continue reading “A Crystal Ball – Skills for Now and the Future”
Should You Make a Lateral Move?
Its not unusual for us to make horizontal career moves. They may be a good strategy for a variety of reasons, the best of which is to gain knowledge and skills that will lead to your upward goal. If your company is in a slow growth mode and promotions are stagnant, then a lateral moveContinue reading “Should You Make a Lateral Move?”
Exposure – Key Element in Career Search
My mother would take me to symphony concerts when I was a child. I was so bored! There was no action! Then she told me to watch just one or two musicians throughout a piece to see what they did both while they were playing and especially when they weren’t. That kept me awakeContinue reading “Exposure – Key Element in Career Search”
A Peek Into Your Crystal Ball
Our Future Selves is an interactive look into the crystal ball of our future. From the Columbia University Grad School of Journalism, you can see at what your future will look like for the next 50 or so years. This is an easy to use graphic depiction of ethnicity, health and wealth data to seeContinue reading “A Peek Into Your Crystal Ball”