The career development of our teammates is among the key responsibilities of a leader - and оur personal career development vision & plan plays a critical role for our long term growth and success. Despite their importance, our career vision is often not getting enough attention and level of detail, or is hampered by easily avoidable mistakes. In this discussion, we’ll address typical mistakes related to long-term career planning, some best practices, and practical steps for building our own long-term career development vision (or the ones of the teammates we are leading), so that career planning becomes a long term journey with clear why/how/what, rather than just a list of SMART goals
8. Mistake #1
● “Present at 5 local meetups”
● “Complete [X] online course”
● “Speed up [Y] x2”
→ Bottom up / “low hanging fruits”
→ Lack of “big picture” & long term
thinking
26. Strengths & Growth Opportunities
● Strengths & growth areas are
contextual, not absolute
○ need a clear vision on your
desired outcome / role
● Don’t over-index on strengths
○ Can turn into blind spot / gap
● Don’t over-index on growth areas
○ need to be mitigated, so they
don’t become “achilles heels”
○ but don’t try to turn them into
strengths
● Mitigate your weaknesses while further
improving & capitalizing on your
strengths
30. Networking antipatterns
● The wrong structure
○ The formalist
○ The overloaded manager
● The wrong relationships
○ The disconnected expert
○ The biased leader
● The wrong behavior
○ The superficial networker
○ The chameleon
31. Networking
● Information or expertise
● Political support, influence & help
● Personal development & coaching
● Personal support & energy
● A sense of purpose or worth
● Work / life balance & well-being
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35. Career Development Questions
● What inspires me?
● What opportunities matter?
● What were the key lessons along my
career path?
● Who motivates me? What would I do
freely?
● What aspects of my work would I like
to change?
● What is the “one thing” that I start
improving today?
● What can I deliver that is meaningful to
me?
● What will my team miss without me?
● What will be better because of my
work?