Visualize Your Way to Career Success: How Kanban Can Help You Be More Agile
As humans, we are wired to process visual information faster and more efficiently than any other form of data.?
That's why it's no surprise that visual prompts are an effective tool to help individuals manage their tasks and achieve their goals.?
If you're someone who needs visual prompts to stay organised then Kanban is an ideal solution for you.
Kanban is a visual project management tool that allows you to visually track the progress of your tasks in real-time.
It provides a simple and flexible framework that can be easily adapted to fit your unique needs.?
The Kanban system uses a visual board to track the progress of tasks in real-time.?
The board is divided into columns that represent the different stages of your actions.
Tasks or cards are placed in the appropriate column and moved through the columns as they progress
It’s a way to prioritize and schedule your career based actions.
Here are some common career actions:
Setting goals: Whether you're starting a new job or you've been in your career for a while, setting goals is an important step to help you stay focused and motivated.?
You can set short-term and long-term goals that align with your career aspirations.
Develop skills: To succeed in your career, you need to continuously develop your skills and knowledge. Look for opportunities to learn new skills and stay up-to-date on industry trends.
Build relationships: Building relationships with colleagues, managers, and other professionals in your industry is critical for your career growth.
Manage time: Time management is critical to career success. Set priorities, establish a schedule to help you manage your time effectively.
Communicate effectively: Effective communication is essential in any career. They help you convey your ideas, collaborate with others, and build relationships.
Solve problems: In any career, you'll encounter problems that require critical thinking and problem-solving skills.?
Adapt to change: Change is a constant in most careers, so it's important to develop the ability to adapt to change. Be flexible, open to new ideas, and willing to take on new challenges.
You can break down these actions into tasks and place them on? your Kanban board.
Here are some examples of tasks related to common career goals.
Move up the career ladder
Develop new skills: Learning and Development
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Build Relationships - Career growth predictor
Manage Time - What you do and when you do it
Communicate Effectively - An essential skill in any career
Solving Problems - Problems are opportunities
Adapt to change - Change is constant
You can add categories in your “To Do” list to further break out actions by priority or career objective.
Actions can move from low to high or across the board as you achieve them.
Some actions will be recurring so once they are done they will become a “To Do” again.?
An example would be seeking feedback from stakeholders.?
You would meet with stakeholders and request feedback which could lead to more “To Do” actions. And to follow up with stakeholders if changes are required.
Once you have completed the feedback action it would again become a low priority “To Do” to repeat in the future.
As I said before a Kanban board is flexible and adaptable so you can apply it in many ways to suit your needs.
Check out online Kanban boards like Trello which you can try for free.
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