For Your Improvement
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For Your Improvement is a must have for your library. I used it during my days in Corporate America and highly recommend it to my clients.
Even as a coach, I continue to learn and grow. When drafting my personal development plan, this is my favorite resource for assessing and developing my plan for growing in specific skill areas.
Praise For Your Improvement
So, why do I highly recommend this book? For the following reasons. It includes a:
- Comprehensive List of Competencies
- Tool to Assess Your Development Needs
- Practical Strategies for Development
- List of Career Stallers and Stoppers
List of Competencies
FYI includes a comprehensive list of over sixty (60) competencies. From Boss Relationships to Conflict Management to Managerial Courage, this list covers the key/critical skills required in roles at all levels of the organization.
Using your job description, identify the skills that are critical for success in your current role. Once you identify those skills, now you can assess how well you demonstrate a given skill.
Assess Development Needs
According to the authors, "development generally begins with a realization of current or future need and the motivation to do something about it."
Well, the ability to assess your specific strengths and weaknesses in a given area allows you to establish a baseline from which to improve.
For each competency, you (and your manager) can assess the behaviors you demonstrate to determine if you are unskilled, skilled, or over-use a specific skill.
It is a thorough assessment that identifies specific behaviors related to each skill.
Practical Strategies
Knowing the areas where you must grow develop is a pre-requisite for when identifying practical strategies for doing so.
For Your Improvement lists specific ways you can improve:
- Learning on your own
- Getting feedback from your manager and team members
- Turning mistakes/missteps into learning opportunities
Let me give you a practical application of learning from my mistakes. At one point in my career, I realized I was a very poor listener. In part because my direct reports and peers told me so. And partly because I was encountering a high degree of conflict.
This weakness, if not addressed, could prove detrimental to my long-term career success. The strategies listed here helped me identify and take actionable steps to improve my listening skills and become a better listener.
Career Stallers & Stoppers
Not only does this book include ways to develop competencies needed for success. It specifically identifies approximately 20 Career Stallers and Stoppers.
These stoppers and stallers represent weaknesses that, if not corrected, will shorten the level of career success you could achieve.
From "Unable to Adapt to Differences" to "Lack of Composure" to "Political Missteps", these behaviors can greatly limit your opportunities to remain and grow with a given organization.
A Word About Career Stallers & Stoppers
You've worked waaaayyyy to hard and come too far to let an undeveloped skill negatively affect your career.
After getting my degree in accounting, then sitting for and passing the CPA Exam, I had too much at stake to let my inability to listen put a halt to my career.
Lack of listening was directly tied to the career staller and stopper of being insensitive to others. I was more interested in being right, or rather not being wrong, that I would interrupt others, especially when we had a difference of opinion.
But it was feedback from my boss, my peers and my direct reports that sounded the alarm. I went to work on improving in this area, and with help from supportive people, I steadily improved my ability to listen.
It warms my heart when someone describes me as a good listener. That's when I knew the hard work had paid off - someone else noticed.
I had a great relationship with my boss, and he was very instrumental in my growth and development. But, perhaps, that's not your story.
Is there room for improvement in your relationship with your manager? Well, I have some great news for you. Read on to discover a resource I created to help you think through the current state of affairs in your relationship with your boss. They heavily influence how you experience your daily work environment, plus they have a major say at performance review time.
Improve Your Relationship with Your Boss
Are you looking to improve your relationship with your boss? If so, the Boss Relationship Worksheet will help you better understand and communicate more effectively with your immediate supervisor.
To download your copy, submit your information on the form below.
After completing the Boss Relationship Worksheet, you will find that the following will prove helpful in showing you how to cultivate a better working relationship with your boss:
Not only does this book include ways to develop competencies needed for success. It specifically identifies close to 20 Career Stallers and Stoppers.
They represent weaknesses that, if not corrected, will shorten the level of career success you could achieve.
From "Unable to Adapt to Differences" to "Lack of Composure" to "Political Missteps", these behaviors can greatly limit your opportunities to remain and grow with a given organization.
For Your Improvement
If you are serious about growing and developing in your current role, and those you lead, this is a MUST have.
It is a comprehensive tool that has helped me over the years accurately assess my skill level. I have also used it as a tool to get feedback from my direct reports and my boss on specific strengths and weaknesses related to certain skills.
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