Enhance Your Career Development
Have you reached that point in your career where you feel it’s time to tackle a new challenge? Although that’s a sign that you still have the drive to grow, career development requires more than the will to advance further. Stay on this week’s newsletter and get a few tips and tricks to propel your professional growth.
Why is communication key to advancing further?
Although technical knowledge and abilities are often considered the cornerstones of career development, soft skills also play a pivotal role in an individual's professional growth. Whether you’re transitioning into a new role or asking for a promotion, it’s most likely that your employer will evaluate your interpersonal intelligence, particularly your communication skills.
Turning into a good communicator will not only attract the attention of decision-makers but also ease your day-to-day activities, from being proficient at writing well-crafted emails to clear any sticky situations to finding the right words for your two-minute pitches to sign new clients.
On top of the above applications, communication will allow you to showcase other strengths from your skill set and unlock your potential. Here are a few ways to improve your communication skills:
If you want to learn more about why communication skills are essential for your career development and how to improve them, check out the following article from our blog.
Using adaptability to propel your success
Confronting change and adversity is another crucial aspect of boosting your career development. If you aim to move on to a new company, you’ll inevitably face unknown situations and environments that will put up to test your adaptability.
Even if you remain at your current company, in order to grow you’ll have to be aware of opportunity areas and open to new methods of improvement. For this sake, your adaptability will be your strongest ally to get ahead.
Whether you’re adapting to a new job opportunity in an unknown environment or scaling the corporate ladder, you’ll have to put your best foot forward to acclimate to the different situations you’ll face and overcome the challenges you face.
Check out this blog post from our Knowledge Center and learn more about how you can improve your adaptability to propel your career growth.
Being patient with your growth and learning
Keep in mind that once you shift into a new position or company, there will be an adaptation process. During this period of time, you’ll have to learn the ins and outs of your role, as well as get used to your new team’s chemistry; and yes, as you can imagine this will take time.
As with any training process, your progress will be reflected in a learning curve, and even if it doesn’t seem relevant at all, understanding the different types of graphics and which one matches your case will ease your learning process.
What is a fact is you’ll have to be patient with yourself and understand that there will be ups and downs during your growth process. Here are a few tips you can try to deal with your learning curve:
Discover the four types of learning curves and learn more about how to navigate through your learning process by checking this blog post from our Knowledge Center.
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