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.