Have you ever considered a cross-move to accelerate your career development? Did you assess if your skills and experience could open doors to another function? Many look up only vertically to the next hierarchical career step within their current function. But the example of Tony shows that this is a mistake. A cross-move can open unexpected career perspectives.
Being on a lifelong learning journey is of increasing importance in a fast changing world. This is the basis to ensure your employability. Don’t wait for others to take care of that, but be proactive and drive your professional development as part of your career strategy.
You have certainly heard about the famous 70-20-10 rule according to which we should have 70% of learning on-the-job, 20% should be coaching and only 10% classroom teaching. But you may wonder how to achieve this 70% on-the-job learning.
Job swaps are a particularly powerful development tool, which offers intensive learning on-the-job as you will see here in John and Eliana’s story.
Christopher’s story shows how important it is to make purposeful career development choices to gain strategically relevant experience in view of your career target. Building up a broad experience base is a key success factor to reach your dream job.
Our deep desire should be the north star for our career strategy because this is what will give us true satisfaction and fulfillment. As we will see in this story of Magdalena, we are sometimes disconnected from this deeper desire and we follow predefined career pathways. We will see how Magdalena found her true career aspiration.
We are in the daily race for higher objectives, and we constantly strive to over-achieve. Sometimes that ambition overshadows what we truly aspire to. Aspiration is related to our deeper desire. The closer we get to our aspired state, the more fulfillment we experience.
We should of course have a healthy dose of ambition. But we should be careful not to get trapped in our ambition and lose sight of our true aspiration. It requires some efforts to connect back to what we truly aspire to. We should be careful not to miss this in the rush of events.
In this article I describe the benefits of setting up a personal, outline how it works, what topics it should cover and how to select the board members.
It is important to actively drive your career development. But that should not be done alone. You should get the support from people who know you, who know your function and who know your industry. Your personal board will help you review your career strategy, and it will be there to answer questions on how to best steer your professional development.
The board will provide advice on important career decisions, and you will be able to draw on the board members’ experience and expertise. Such a career advisory board can become a major success factor for your professional development. Don’t wait to set it up!
Usually, the CV reflects what we have done in the past. But you can use that CV format also to plan your career development.
Many find it difficult to project themselves into the future. The REVERSE CV is a simple and pragmatic career planning tool, which can help you define the career steps that you should aim for to reach your dream job.
It is important to actively drive our career development. But that should not be done alone. You should get the support from people who know you, who know your function and who know your industry. This article outlines how to set up a personal career advisory board and how to run it efficiently.
Your personal board will help you review your career strategy and it will be there to answer questions on how to best steer your professional development. The board will provide advice on important career decisions and you will be able to draw on the board member’s experience and expertise. Such a career advisory board can become a major success factor for your professional development. Don’t wait to set it up!
In this article I would like to outline a simple framework to assess job opportunities. This will hopefully be useful for you to make the right choices in view of the career opportunities you wish to peruse, and as a side effect this can also be a great preparation for the interviews if you decide to apply for a given role. It’s a 6-step approach.
Constantly deepening our self-awareness is critical to grow as a person and as a leader. But to achieve this there are many barriers we need to overcome. We have been told not to be self-centred and to combat our weaknesses, which leads to a certain denial of who we are. Instead, we need to learn to be vulnerable and to observe ourselves with a lot more clemency and… narcissism!