How To Impact Your Career Performance

10 Simple Recommendations To Practice Every Day!

1. Articulate your vision of career success and physically revise it each year.

2. Develop a career and life plan for yourself.

3. Be aware of how you are changing and how this impacts the above plans.

4. Make a list of the assets of your current role and organization.

5. Add to this asset lists regularly and use it to stay focused.

6. Understand the mission and values of your organization. Ask how this links to your role and performance.

7. Make these values and mission statement a part of your daily performance.

8. Know what competencies are required for your current and roles you are seeking in the future.

9. Be sure you are regularly learning something new or mastering required competencies and skills of your role.

10. Be clear that you understand what your direct report and organization expect of you.

Next month we'll have 10 more recommendations to share on this topic.