12 Tips for Personal Career Growth

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    Blessing 3 years ago

    12 Tips for Personal Career Growth

    Personal growth is a journey that’s never complete. It’s easily sidelined by the day’s urgent tasks, yet it’s essential for long-term job satisfaction and advancement.

    Our tips include techniques and tactics that encourage personal growth and help keep it a priority.

    They are listed below:

    • Share your results

    The greater awareness others have of your successes, the more your career will benefit. As you develop projects and career goals, establish metrics to measure your progress and success. When you have solid progress to report, share it with your team. Don’t brag, frame your accomplishments in a form that others will benefit from. For example, how you cut costs, relieved a bottleneck, applied new technology to an old problem, etc.

    • Stay positive

    You can’t control the world around you, only your reaction to it. Think of your reactions as an opportunity for personal growth. Most of the time the cure for negative feelings is their opposite. When you feel judgmental, think of it as a chance to learn how to be more accepting and compassionate. When you feel insecure, use the occasion to learn how to be more confident and independent.

    • Increase your productivity

    It may be counterintuitive to stop working when you have a lot to do, but it actually makes you more productive. Non-stop work slowly begins to take its toll on productivity. A short break will refresh your body and mind. Try to really relax and stop thinking about work for a few minutes. When you return, you’ll be ready to dive back into your tasks with renewed vigor.

    • Ask for advice

    You don’t have to solve every problem by yourself. It usually helps to talk things out. Ask a colleague with related expertise for ideas on how they might handle the situation. Problem-solving is an area where two or more heads are almost always better than one.

    • Keep growing

    In business and in life, stasis is an illusion. You’re either moving forward or falling behind. The best ways to ensure continuous growth are to keep learning, embracing new challenges, and adapting quickly as the world around you changes.

    • Learn from your experience

    At the end of the day: reflect. Take five minutes and ask yourself what was the most productive thing you did today? The least productive? Learn from your answers and adjust your actions accordingly.

    Tomorrow’s a new opportunity for personal growth.

    SOURCE: XEROX CORPORATION

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