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Career Management Skills # 6
June 1, 2010
Leadership
The 6th Career Management Skills is Leadership and differs from the Self Management and Interpersonal skills in the overall development of resources to accomplish the intended results. As a leader to collaborators, customers and other consultants in your field or business community you excel at creating long-lasting relationships and are a recognized leader in your field.
Leadership:
The ability to act as a leader and develop the discipline of building community;
To be committed to aligning various courses of action that will empower individuals;
To be willing to co-create and share the results.
Rank yourself in terms of how competent you are in this 6th skill area from 1 – 5,
1 being “not at all” and 5 representing “mastery.”
Career Management Skills for Success
May 24, 2010
#5 Planning & Decision-Making Skills
The 5th Career Management competency is Planning and Decision-Making. If you’ve been employed by someone else, it’s all too easy to let the organization determine the priorities and you’re lucky if you can keep up with half of them. Being self employed is ABOUT planning and decision-making for that is the only way anything is accomplished. The ability to be self directed is part of the Self Management Skill Set #2 mentioned above and equally necessary to master the new employment contract.
Planning and Decision-Making Skills:
The ability to visualize, to plan and to set goals –
Establish a daily structure that encourages individual responsibility –
Being able to identify criteria for success and then review and readjust priorities.
Decision making may be the skill set that requires the most of us in order to master the new employment contract. When we are clear on our priorities we can make the decisions pretty easily; but, when we’re not so clear on the plan or the vision and thus the criteria, we can wonder which way the wind blows. The new employment contract can only handle so much ambiguity. Start planning and making decisions grounded in self knowledge.
Rank yourself in terms of how competent you are in this 25th skill area from 1 – 5, 1 being “not at all” and 5 representing “mastery.”
Career Management Skills for Success
May 18, 2010
May 18th
#4 PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLS
The 4th Career Management Competency that needs your attention is Project Management. As a recently unemployed individual and having the opportunity to pick up a training job that utilized my previous experience, I was able to quickly put into place my Project Management Skills. There were parts of the job that I needed to sub-contract so I got to partner and collaborate with me as the project manager. Implementing my problem solving skills took my confidence to a whole new level, as I realized how that skill set in particular, does not get utilized in some of the current workplace. A new role emerged using my Project Management Skills and I liked it. A new direction to ponder.
Project Management Skills:
The ability to manage and acquire information and resources -
Brokering services through partnering and collaboration -
Anticipating, troubleshooting and problem solving.
Rank yourself in terms of how competent you are in this 4th skill area from 1 – 5, 1 being “not at all” and 5 representing “mastery.”
Career Management Skills for Success
May 13, 2010
#3 Interpersonal and Facilitation
The 3rd Skill Set required for mastering the new employment contract is Interpersonal and Facilitation skills. The skills listed in this category are the ones required in seeking and acquiring work as well as for relationship building and selling. They are also important in the areas of communicating with partners, vendors and customers across the board. You’ll need to assess and develop your expertise in each of these areas:
Demonstrate insight into motivating human behavior -
Develop and practice team building -
Manage conflict and practice negotiation and mediation -
Rank yourself in terms of how competent you are in this 3rd skill area from 1 – 5, 1 being “not at all” and 5 representing “mastery.”
Join us again for the additional skill sets for mastering your career.
Career Management Skills for Success #2
April 27, 2010
The 2nd Skill Set required for mastering the new employment contract is Self Management. The “personal is professional” and the more authentic you can be the better in terms of work style and personal values. Bringing your spirit to work in the 21st century requires the ability to promote your self through commitment to your purpose.
2. Self-Management Skills Set:
You are committed to raising your consciousness -
You demonstrate initiative and progress through adversity -
You work independently with increasing awareness of the larger community.
Rank yourself in terms of how competent you are in this 2nd skill area from 1 – 5,
1 being “not at all” and 5 representing “mastery.”
Join us again as we explore the other skill sets required to successful manage the New Employment Contract
