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Career Growth Secret – Part 3
You’ve got career growth on your mind, and you’ve identified and developed some success stories to help you achieve it. Kudos to you! Now I’ll share with you how to put those success stories to work. PERFORMANCE REVIEWS: Let’s say you’ve got a performance review coming up and you want to be able to apply your success stories in that kind of application. You want to track your successes for the entire time period that you are being reviewed for. I think it’s a great idea to keep a success journal. We already talked about how you can go back over your status reports or a...
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In my last blog I outlined ideas for where to find your success stories, and how to determine which would be best for you to emphasize to support your career growth goals. Now we’re going to discuss how to develop them into powerful career growth tools! And you’ll want to start by asking yourself, “What are the skills most important to succeed with where I want to grow?” For example, if you’re interested in a promotion to a team supervisor position in an accounting department you would ask yourself, “If I’m aiming for this type of job, what are the key skills they seek?” If...
read more4 Questions to Ask in an Interview
Getting an interview can feel like a gift from above. When I was job searching last summer, I would send out resume after resume into the void of the online job boards, and usually hear nothing back. Getting asked for an interview seemed like the best possible outcome, and in a lot of ways it was. What I quickly learned, however, is that getting an interview didn’t necessarily mean I fit with the company. Sometimes, the interview simply reinforced that I wouldn’t be a good fit in that position, or with that company. What I learned, after doing a couple of interviews, was how to ask questions...
read moreThree Tips for Effective Communication
During my time scrolling through job boards and looking at hundreds of job ads, I noticed a common trend between them all. Every job called for communication skills, either written or oral. Every job, from the highest paying CEO positions to the very bottom entry level positions, requires communication skills. This shouldn’t be surprising: we live in a world that has become increasingly connected via the internet. With people now communicating over text, email, Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, and a whole list of other communication apps, it’s no wonder that communication skills have become an...
read moreThe Importance of Communicating Well
Communication. It’s a word that everyone agrees is important, yet many people have difficulty accomplishing it well. There are a lot of measures to define communication effectiveness. The one that I use is to ask myself 6 questions about my communication to ensure that I am communicating well individually and organizationally to build trust, and also ensure that I am accomplishing what I say I will accomplish. Why? When I think through the purpose of a message/conversation, I ask myself what I am trying to accomplish. I think we’ve all seen the e-mail chains in which everyone makes a...
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