We are happy to announce that all our Career Conversations workshops are now available in three languages – French, Spanish and English. This training is designed to help you improve your employees’ ability to handle career conversations, which are critical to the success of your organization. Our online sessions are interactive and include tools and
In our last blog post we talked about Creating the Right Environment for a Comfortable Career Conversation with your Manager. Now you’ve got that planned, today we want to focus on how to be well-prepared for a career conversation with your manager. Reflect on Your Journey So Far Preparing effectively for that conversation should start
In the latest Virtual Career Lab, we delivered for UNDP, our focus was on “Having an Effective Career Conversation with Your Manager”. So, I thought that might be a useful focus for the next in our series of blog posts. In today’s busy world, it’s hard to find time for career conversations. And it’s hard
Career development. Not the most poetic of subjects, but most definitely an inspiring one. And one that has given rise to me curating this article, built around great and thought-provoking career development quotes Quotes condense learning and experience into memorable bite-sized sentences. By themselves, they’re nothing. But add their context, and they’re reminders for what you
In my last blog post, I asked “Are you limiting yourself by focussing too much on your job title?” The labelling that a job title gives you might be empowering and motivating. But it may also work against you and contribute to disempowering beliefs and thoughts. Breaking out of the job box that a job
Does your current job title REALLY reflect the work you do? If yes, then you can probably skip this blog post. If not, then you should realize that organisations have a tough time with job titles because they are generic, and you are not. You are unique. And you will have developed your job in
In my last blog post, Impostor Syndrome. Are you letting it damage your career growth? I described the negative impacts that Impostor Syndrome can have on our careers. I also promised to share some ideas to help you overcome it. So, that’s the plan for this blog post, looking at ways to silence the impostor,
Have you ever had the feeling that you’re going to be found out? That you don’t ‘deserve’ this, that you’re not good enough, or you don’t belong? You may be suffering from Impostor Syndrome. Regular readers will realise that a lot of my recent blog posts have related to subjects I am covering in the
In my blog post, Managing Upwards: How to make progress through influencing your supervisor, I introduced the subject of managing upwards. And I emphasised the importance of ‘Seek first to understand; then to be understood.’ In my last blog post, Managing Upwards: First you need to clearly understand your Manager, I shared some ideas on
In my last blog post, Managing Upwards: How to make progress through influencing your supervisor, I introduced the subject of managing upwards. And I emphasised the importance of ‘Seek first to understand; then to be understood.’ In this blog post, I thought I’d share some ideas seeking first to understand. Two important traits and attitudes
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