Happy New You
Monday, January 13, 2020
So, happy new you everyone. Today let’s just think around what steps we could take to being recharged and rededicated to our career development and growth. Ordinarily we leave it to the employer to make the necessary assessments and send us to whichever program has been identified as being most suitable to our needs and most relevant to the business. But today we are taking this moment to acknowledge that we are part of that process, and for us to recognise, value and benefit from aforementioned programs, we need to be aware of ourselves.
Taking an active interest in your general career management is critically important if you expect to gain maximum success and fulfilment from the hours you invest in your work. But before you can map out what a successful career looks like for you, and before you can determine what is meaningful and relevant in your working life, you have to know who you are (values, interests, fears, likes and dislikes, etc.) It sounds so obtuse to say but you’d be surprised, and maybe even disappointed/alarmed to find how many people don’t know who they are. They know who they are supposed to think they are, but not really who they are, so they struggle to be authentic, intentional, engaged and committed. We have all met that kind of colleague somewhere along the way, in fact, we may even have been that colleague ourselves!
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