No matter what you do for work, you'll benefit from mastering core skills like authenticity, collaboration, and resilience. Hone these early in your career, and you'll benefit for life.
Contemplating Career Change Instructors: Heather Wilkerson & Tony Martignetti
Contemplating Career Change is an interactive series (three one-hour training sessions) that will guide you to reignite your spark and connect with what you truly want to experience in your career, and then take the right actions to move forward. Understanding what is initiating the desire for change, how it relates to your purpose and vision gives us space to create new patterns and pathways that result in a fulfilling career and a balanced life. You are not alone. You will be joined by others who are going through what you are going through, and you will be guided by two professional coaches who will share powerful insights and tools that will get you on the right path.
Stop spinning your wheels in your job search and implement an effective and efficient strategy to land your next ideal role. Learn how to Get Clear, Get Strategic, and Get in the Door. Focus your search and separate yourself from the pack using these proven tips.
We highlighted The Start-Up of You in which Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha share their thoughts on A-B-Z Planning. Plan A is what you're doing right now. Plan B is what you pivot to when you need to change either your goal or the route for getting there. Plan Z is the fallback position: your lifeboat.
We wrote on the importance of believing in yourself. If you're owning your career, doing the
work, focusing on learning and improving every day, and living your values, you're putting yourself in the best position you can to achieve your career goals.
We shared Ann Hiatt's article for Harvard Business Review on "what next?". If you are looking to change your career or just refocus, walking through the "3 P's" may help you find clarity and the right direction for your next career step.
Have you ever considered a side hustle? They seem to be more popular than ever. Becca Carnahan provides 8 reasons why a side hustle may be right for you.
Impact Players: How to take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact, by Liz Wiseman.
Following on her highly successful first book, Multipliers, Liz Wiseman dives into what separates high-impact players from their very talented peers. Impact Players is one of 2021's best business and career books.
JR Lowry's "Career Sessions, Career Lessons" podcast is finally launching this month. February guests will include Michael Alter, Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business; Kim Crider, Major General, US Air
Force (Retired); and Jason Krantz, CEO of Definitive Healthcare. Listen on all the major podcast platforms.
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