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Unleashing Your Professional Potential: The Strategic Power of Long-Term Career Planning
In the expansive journey of your career, where you'll dedicate around 90,000 hours or approximately 13 years of your life, the significance of intentional long-term career planning cannot be overstated. Despite this substantial investment, many individuals find themselves neglecting the critical practice of considering where their professional path might lead them in the years to come.
The real and surprising role of purpose in your conservation careeR
As individuals immersed in the conservation and sustainability sector, we often find ourselves engrossed in the central mission of our organizations: clean air, clean water, healthy ecosystems, and a sustainable future. When asked about our purpose, we often begin by highlighting the vital work we do collectively. But what about our own personal purpose within this greater mission?
Strengths Are Key To Creating Impact as an Environmental Leader
Ask anyone whose career is dedicated to protecting the planet and they will tell you about their important work to protect land, air, water and human health. For the tens of thousands of leaders working on environmental conservation and protection, they measure impact by certain indicators.
It’s time for managers to focus on well-being – not just burnout.
Last year dealt a devastating blow to well-being. By December 2020, Americans who were considered their life to be ‘thriving’ hit a 12 year low. Americans rated their well-being at their lowest levels since the Great Recession of 2008.
Want to be more compatible with your co-workers? Know their communications style.
Workplace communication is probably one of the top issues I hear about as an executive coach. Managers who are dealing with staff that seem uncooperative. Staff who report bosses who pick favorites leaving them insecure. Team members who are unsuccessfully navigating challenging situations with co-workers.
Craft Your Career Around Your Strengths – Not Your Passions
Several years ago, I had a eureka moment.
For decades I had been following my life-long passion to address critical global environmental issues. I loved what I was doing but increasingly over the years the day-to-day work drained me. I was finding that many parts of my job, which I could aptly do, were draining for me, rather than nourishing me. It wasn’t enough that I could capably do things; I needed to focus on those things that were innately my true strengths!
How We are Failing the Nonprofit Workplace
After 30 years of experience as an employee, manager, and now executive coach to the nonprofit workforce, I can safely make this key observation: our style of management is no longer working.
All too often, nonprofit leaders and managers struggle with what is the right type of management in the workplace.
Work Smarter: Get Off Auto-Pilot and Create a Productive Work Day
How often do you end your work day thinking, “Wow, I just worked a whole lot, but didn’t get much done.”
You walk into work and face what feels like a tsunami of emails not to mention a totally packed calendar. Everyone requests your time. You open your email to dozens of requests that take you away from your core work. These emails flow in all day long – ping, ping, ping – asking for your time. People contact you for favors. You are invited to join meetings.
As your work piles up, you become more and more anxious. You try to multi-task but that just leaves you feeling even more overwhelmed. Your brain isn’t focused at all. Before long, your day is over. And nothing on your to-do list is scratched off.
This is a day on auto-pilot.
Grow Your Career and Seize Your Success: 18 Questions to Ask as You Career Plan
Are you wondering where you should take your career?
If someone asked you, “Where do you want your career to be in a decade, would you have an answer?”
You go into work every day and focus on your to-do list. But you might wonder whether you should also focus on career planning and growth.
How to Unearth Your Strengths and Find Career and Life Fulfillment
If someone asked you, “What are your strengths?” would you really know how to answer?
Most people answer this question by listing their skills. Or pointing to buzzword phrases like, “I’m a strategic thinker” or “I’m a strong communicator” or “I’m good with people.”
None of these are strengths.