What To Do To Stay Ahead In Your Career

 

How do you stay ahead in this ever-changing world?  In order to keep up and have career opportunities or leadership growth, you have to stay informed. One way to stay ahead is by educating yourself.  Great leaders never stop learning. 

 

This could mean that you keep updated on how computers, software and phones have changed business.  If you are still using a fax machine, that is ok, but did you know some fax numbers actually go to email rather than showing up on fax machine somewhere?  Learning knowledge about software and office products is keep to continuing to keep up with these changes.  How do you sell to your customers?  That is ever changing as well.  More and more people are offering online shops.  Are you keeping up with these changes?

 

What about reading?  There are books of every possible nature out there.  Books are not just for fiction.  Need information about lean for your manufacturing business?  Go to your local library or bookstore and get the latest one.  Need help with your leadership skills?   There are a lot of great books out there too.  Want to know how to knit?  Guess what, there are books out there for that too.

 

Where else can you go to keep up with change?  Think online courses, webinars, colleges and universities, papers, listening, etc.  You can even be mentored, use a coach (hint hint) to help with your goals and ensure you know how to continue to grow and keep up with the ongoing, never-ending threat of change.

 

Do not be afraid of change.  We live in a VUCA world (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous).  Embrace it.  The only thing about change is that it is continual and you need to keep up..  Once you do and you leave the past behind, except to learn from it, you will grow and continue to stay ahead in your career, with goals and with life.

 

If you need some help or want more information, please reach out to me at tara@twinlifecoaching.ca or check out our website and blog at www.twinlifecoaching.ca.