Your Ongoing Personal and Professional Growth
Raising Your Career Growth strategies
In our careers, we often reach a stage where we’re starting to
feel confident
We're getting the opportunities
We’re earning good money
Many of my clients become complacent and stagnant at this point in their lives
It's easy to get overconfident and think, ‘I don't need to do any more work, I'm where I want to be.’
But that's when you stop growing
Personal growth is an ongoing journey, not a destination
You can never stop learning and improving if you want to keep growing in your career and your personal life
Complacency is the enemy of growth
So keep striving to be better, and you'll keep seeing results
There will be times when you’ll need to go right back to basics
For example, when an opportunity comes up in your company, you may need to revisit your transferable skills and update your resume, so it is up-to-date and shows your best and most current qualifications
Be prepared, so you can put your best foot forward and get promoted – get what you want
True career mastery comes from continuous growth - both personally and professionally
Helping others grow is not only beneficial to them but also you
Through volunteering, mentoring, and other contributions, you can expand your skillset while also benefiting others – and teaching is one of the best ways to learn and grow
The Feynman Technique is a method for learning and growing professionally, attributed to Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, but in reality, it has been around for as long as people have been speaking to each other
The principle is that by teaching someone else about your field, you are forced to develop a deep understanding of the topic
This is because Feynman believed that jargon, vague words, and complexity reveal a lack of understanding
To truly understand your topic, you must be able to explain it to a 12-year-old
I notice that stagnation and complacency often set in during mid-careers
When things are a little bit hard early on in our careers, we keep working at it because we're still hungry
But then we hit mid-career, and get some good runs on the board, and become overconfident and complacent
We think we don't have to keep growing
We think, Oh, I achieved this
I achieved that
I've arrived
The thing is, we never arrive as life is about ongoing personal and professional growth
And there's an old saying that not all readers are leaders, but
all leaders are readers
So stay growing, keep growing, develop yourself, grow others, stay on that journey of consistent growth, and watch your success skyrocket