As an aspiring and ambitious professional, you already know that the reliable way to get ahead in your career is your effective performance. You need to beat the bulls eye of the all performance targets. In these turbulent times and live wire competitive environment, you need to hone your skills, and show wisdom and good leadership. Of course one needs to work hard,
However hard work is purely a matter of personal choice! But you can learn the rest: If you build the right skills, get the right training, and get the mentoring you need, you can deliver superior performance. These same skills help you grow as a capable, well-balanced, fully functioning self.
If you think you are already educated at the college and you are ready to launch your career you will be surprised in the corporate corridors how inadequate you are. When the rubber meets the road you need an entirely different set of skills to survive. So where do you learn these skills, and get this coaching and training? If you're relying on your company to provide this for you, particularly in the current economic climate, you will be disappointed. They have no time, or they will be interested only in short term functional training, teaching people to use IT systems, company processes, industry-specific skills and so on. This will only prepare you how to do a job.
There are no initiatives to truly focus on the essential skills that make the long term difference for a successful career: personal effectiveness, people skills, communication skills, decision-making, creative problem solving, leadership,..... and many, many more. With the meager training budgets things are only going to get worse. At least are you getting valuable coaching, guidance and mentoring support from your boss? With their plates already full the answer is invariably ‘No’.
If you're not getting this support from your Boss or company, what are you going to do to take charge of your own career? How are you going to take care of your career to the next level?
And what if you could keep looking for more answers, week after week, wherever you are in the world, and at whatever time suited you? Where will you look up?
There are mentors!
Saba.Ram
www. alkemi.in
