National Careers Week – #NCW2024 – is pitched towards young people at the start of their working life. But career development is a life-long option.
We can always take the initiative and, focus on building on our skills, using our experience and pursuing new job goals.
It helps if advertisers are aware of and respond to inequalities within the jobs market. In that way everyone is able to compete for opportunities in a fair way.
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Our career aspirations can be shaped by self-awareness
The key to #change is taking #action to reach our #goal.
Almost twenty years after Steve Jobs’ 2005 commencement speech at #Stanford, his words remind us that – where our working lives are concerned – we already know what we truly want to become.
What is the key principle which has shaped your goals? Feel free to leave a Like if this reminder is helpful.
It is easy to get caught up with big delivery goals and to be out of touch with everyday problems, like difficult team relationships.
Smart leaders will be open to 360-degree feedback, which will tell them about what is going on.
Feedback could even highlight where their behaviour is adding to problems, not solving them.
That news is important, although it can be hard to hear.
That’s why feedback matters.
Leave a Like if this is a helpful reminder. You can leave a comment too, to share the most useful job-related feedback you have given, or received.
I hope getting back to work, using your skills and collaborating with others feels good.
Help is available in case you are thinking pf making professional or personal changes though. Just look at the video to get started.
Then, check out the link to the SMART Goal planner on the Welcome page to record the details of how you will make change happen in the weeks ahead.
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Joining A Zoom Or Teams Call – Photo by ANTONI SHKRABA: via http://www.pexels.com
Like it, or not, the Covid pandemic has changed the way we communicate. I mean, how many of us had regularly used Zoom or Teams before 2020?
We learnt a lot about videoconferencing software can do (and what its limitations are, especially for users with disabilities).
However, one of my main take-aways is pretty simple, it involves being camera-aware.
No one is saying we should all be as skilled as a television presenter, but now and again you see people being interviewed and blunting their message, due to their camera technique.
Here are my 3 favourite tips:
What is your video call secret?
Photo by Gezer Amorim at Pexels.com:
Sir Sidney Poitier was a thoughtful, charismatic actor and Academy Award winner.
He was also an activist. He marched on Washington in 1963, as part of the call for equality spearheaded by Dr Martin Luther King.
He could see that channelling his righteous anger could influence millions of people around the world.
His life was celebrated during this year’s Oscars ceremony, alongside others in the entertainment industry who passed away in last twelve months.
The ‘slap that was heard around the World’ might have eclipsed that segment.
I think the only slap which people will remember Mr Poitier giving was the one his character, Virgil Tibbs, gave the racist character Endicott ‘In The Heat Of The Night’ (1967).
That was a bold, justified, and revolutionary act. It is a long way from what happened on film in the sixties to last weekend at the Oscars ceremony in Los Angeles.
Apologies have been offered since then.
Learning is underway too.
Meanwhile, to close here’s a quote from Mr Poitier which puts all that into context:
I have learned that I must find positive outlets for anger, or it will destroy me.
Sidney Poitier: The Measure Of A Man A Spiritual Autobiography
Men talking – Picture credit Pexels.com
The hardest part about living with a mental health challenge?
Others can’t see it.
Broken limb?
We wear a plaster cast.
Feeling broken down?
We need to start talking.
Being vulnerable.
Opening up about the hurt.
Inviting someone to support us.
In person, or online.
In confidence.
In our own interests (and for the sake of our loved ones).
It is always a good time to talk.
What Needs To Change? (Picture credit SHVETS Productions via Pexels.com)
So, what has September felt like to you?
Post-pandemic is it business as usual, once again?
Or, is it more like something from a science fiction film, complete with rapid testing and face coverings?
Happiness involves choice.
Making change happen starts with moving towards a goal.
Everyone choosing to follow a different path after lockdown has had to plan their way forward. Maybe that is something you want to do? If so there’s plenty of information in the posts here to get you started.
Check out the download section too, if you want some ideas on where to focus your attention.
The first step is to ask yourself, what do I want to change by the end of next month?
Then figure out what your next step looks like.
Then take it.
Leave a reply and let everyone know how you get on!
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This is the time of year when we make changes. Getting healthier; making savings grow; changing our job: these all feature on people’s To Do lists.
Maybe you made a 2021 Resolution yourself (if so, how is it going)?
The hardest part of making change happen is taking a first step, having stood still for a while (weeks / months / even years).
The biggest obstacle to getting started can be other people, especially when they are important or influential figures in our lives. There are ways around people who want to block our growth.
Take a look at my video on the subject via Youtube if you need to think about working around the people getting in your way. What strategies do you use to keep moving forward? Don’t forget to comment, like, share and subscribe if you enjoy what you see.
All the best – Roger
International Women’s Day – Photo by Chelsi Peter from Pexels
Here are my 3 favourite approaches to promoting gender equality (what are yours)?
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