In the past eight months, I (most definitely) was in the RIGHT ROOM, and I’ve absolutely surrounded myself with much smarter people than me! I got the privilege to rotate into high-performance analytics team whose main responsibility is to combat card fraud and minimize losses to the organization.
All in Professional Development
If success is sequential, it’s obvious that the past and the future have little to do on the now—the present. Let’s focus much of our energy on the present, and let’s be darn good at it.
Intentionally creating time to think is key to process thoughts, ideas, and knowledge.
In this post, I’ll quickly go over the 45 books by quoting/paraphrasing a line or topic, that I recall, from each book. Consider this a lightning round of things I picked up from each book. Please don’t fact check. I’m sure I’ll miss a few of these.
Upskilling and reskilling are activities centered around learning new skills. May it be to develop an employee to be more valuable in their current role (upskilling), or to train new skills in order to prepare an employee to take on a new role within a company (reskilling).
To find your personal hedgehog, find what you can be passionate about, what you can be exceptionally good at, and what can advance your career or generate income.
If you’re a ‘workplace vampire’ it’s not your job that sucks—it’s YOU who suck!
Learn new relevant muscles that can elevate your value to your organization. Get proficient in these new muscles by repetition—keep practicing. Finally, apply the new muscle to your current profession to add value to your organization and to yourself.
Let’s stop tallying credit and recognition as a measure of success in our work life and in our personal life. We need to focus on the lasting impact our work and contributions have to our organization and to our family.
Instead of managing your time, manage your ATTENTION. The key in this exercise is to find the proper environment to have the right amount of focus in the task at hand.
Being productive, simply stated, means you’re producing something. In my opinion, being productive can go two ways—it can be an inward flow of information or learning, or it can be an outward result of producing or achieving a task.
In the workplace, over-apologizing can backfire on you. It may reflect lack of confidence, incompetency, and low self-esteem in you. Worse, it can accelerate their lack of confidence in you.
Consuming this much information was helpful to me in many ways. The intake of knowledge made me a much better coach to my team. I was able to pull concepts and ideas to help them develop and grow their careers. This also helped me be more insightful in sharing ideas through blogs and other outlets.
For many leaders and managers like us, we need to start transforming our management paradigm right now. Though it sounds pretty catchy to call this post the “must ‘becomes’ for leaders in 2020,” we all know that the best time to start a shift to the better is right now.
Think of paradigms as maps of certain territories. Don’t you think navigating that territory would be much easier if you had a map? Doesn’t it make so much sense to have an accurate, updated map?
Finding “shortcuts” to get to your goals may work in the short-term. Perhaps, you’re able to pull it off and sustain that success for yourself. If that’s you, I’m happy for you. However, you’ll find that many of the great leaders, at every level of the organization, have gone through some type of process to be well-equipped for their roles.
Emotions come in many forms and it can get the best of you in several different scenarios. If you’re reading this post, you’re most likely in a corporate setting--as a leader or as an individual contributor. Emotions can cloud our judgement at work as well. It will not only hurt your personal brand, but it can negatively affect your output at work and folks with whom you manage.
The ability to help these employees overcome this setback is key in building high-performance teams. As leaders, we’re rated according to the performance of the individuals and the teams that we oversee.
Having trampoline listeners across the organization is an imperative for continued growth and relevance.
Once you’ve learned to be a constant student, you’ll have the freedom from constantly proving yourself and to be free to start improving yourself.