Skills for Career Advancement

“The career advice you probably didn’t get” TED talk by Susan Colantuono describes three types of important skills for career advancement:

1. Use the greatness in you.
2. Engage the greatness in others.
3. Achieve and sustain extraordinary outcomes. (often the missing 33% for women)

Here are the skills you need:
DEMONSTRATE THE GREATNESS IN YOU with:

PERSONAL QUALITIES
↳ Integrity
• Follow through on promises
• Act consistently
• Responsible
• Reliably honest
↳ Work ethic
• Willpower, discipline, and grit
• Awareness and commitment
• Determination and perseverance
• Effort and willingness to work hard

WORK SKILLS
↳ Productivity
• Manage time
• Act on priorities
• Planning
• Set goals
↳ Emotional intelligence
• Identify feelings
• Management
• Recognize emotions of others
• Respond with empathy

PURPOSE SKILLS
↳ Personal branding
• Discover compelling purpose
• Define clear brand promise
• Design creative marketing tools
• Deliver the promise consistently
↳ Planning
• Mission
• Vision
• AIMS
• Values

ENGAGE THE GREATNESS IN OTHERS

COMMUNICATION
• Choose to be: clear, concise, complete, considerate
• Listen actively
• Observe responses
• Connect with empathy
• Know process and methods
TED talk: How to speak so people will want to listen by Julian Treasure

TEAMWORK
• Trust: open, honest communication
• Results: focus on outcomes
• Accountability: clear expectations
• Conflict: handle with respect
• Keep commitments
TED talk: Are you an ideal team player? by Patrick Lencioni
DO: be humble, hungry (hard working), and emotionally smart.

LEADERSHIP & MOTIVATION
• Listen and communicate well
• Express appreciation and extend help
• Act decisively and responsibly
• Display emotional intelligence
↳ Encourage:
• Mastery, Autonomy, Purpose
• Observable outcomes
• Valued contributions
• Engage interest and energy

DO: share a vision with enthusiasm, match motivation with personality

ACHIEVE AND SUSTAIN EXTRAORDINARY OUTCOMES

BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE
↳ Basic business operations
Startup
Product development
Models
Markets: customer acquisition
Measures: KPI
Management
Promote, pitch, present, persuade
Sales: customer service
User experience

STRATEGIC KNOWLEDGE
↳ How the organization plans to achieve goals
• Project planning
• long term objectives
• short term goals • Key results
• Execution: focus on a wildly important goal, leverage lead measures with actions that drive results, create engagement with a compelling scoreboard, commit to accountability with a regular review.

FINANCIAL KNOWLEDGE
↳ Money management
Budgets
Capital
Cash Flow
Expenses
Financial statements
Fundraising
Income
Margins
Profit

Resources:

• Shark Tank Terms
• Acumen Learning Youtube channel
• Small Business Administration learning center
• “Seeing the Big Picture: Business Acumen to Build Your Credibility, Career, and Company” by Kevin Cope
• “The 4 Disciplines of Execution” by Chris McChesney
• Daily PlanIt Work Skills Toolkit
• Pinterest boards on Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneur Book Club

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