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Complacency describes a state of self-satisfaction that typically comes with a lack of awareness for potential deficiencies. It is one of the most significant—and common—threats to career growth. Learn how to identify signs of complacency in your own career and take action to prevent its dangerous onset.
If you’re invested in your work and care about doing a good job, it’s only natural to get emotional from time to time. But emotions can also be dangerous. One of the most important strategies to manage emotions at work is to GET CURIOUS. There are two important questions you can ask to help you do this.
No matter how much you love what you do, feeling unhappy at work is something almost everyone can relate to. We’ve all experienced it at one time or another. When it happens, here are some important steps to take before jumping into a job search.
Years ago, I developed a handy, somewhat silly, but very powerful strategy for managing my own emotional space. While it may seem trivial on the surface, I know from first-hand experience and through the experience of my training participants, that it REALLY works. If this is an area where you struggle, give it a try!
Using your relationships to get ahead is not only perfectly acceptable, it’s expected in the business world. But you have to learn how to leverage your network without taking advantage. You don’t want people to feel used, and you don’t want to ask for too much. There is a right way (and a wrong way) to approach this process.
In the modern workplace, “authenticity” has become a bit of a buzzword. The drive to be our “true selves” at work is a direct response to the robotic corporate personas that previously dominated office culture. However, as much as authenticity is championed, it’s important to recognize that there’s a fine line we have to walk.
Black Box Thinking is a transformative process that centers around the principle of learning from failures by meticulously analyzing them. Leveraging this mindset can change the way you deal with setbacks. Here’s why it’s so important and how you can implement it in your own career.
Being a balanced teammate means you know when (and how) to step up and lead AND when (and how) to step back and follow. Finding this balance is a key ingredient that shapes the success of teams and projects.
No one wants to be thought of as arrogant. In fact, many of us fear it so much, we go to extremes. We end up hiding in the shadows for fear that any attention at all will get us labelled arrogant. But that’s counterproductive! There is a happy balance we can strike if we approach things thoughtfully and recognize where confidence ends and arrogance begins.
It’s a widespread misconception that being indispensable makes your position secure. However, the harsh truth is that everyone is replaceable. While it’s important to be a valuable asset to your team and organization, aiming for indispensability can actually be counterproductive. Discover why and learn what you should aim for instead.
Self-assessment is a crucial tool for personal and professional development. By evaluating your own performance (instead of simply relying on others to provide feedback), you can proactively identify areas of strength and opportunities for growth.
Salary discussions are multifaceted and nuanced. More often than not, sharing numbers with co-workers only sparks emotion—and that’s the wrong way to approach any financial conversation. There are better and more productive ways of identifying pay disparity and the reasons (justified or not) for it.