Once a month we will aim to send out links to useful articles and posts relating to career development and business. We will pick out key quotes from the articles and you will likely find a few additional comments and observations from us as well. Please do give feedback on how this and our other posts are working for you, and if there is anything you would like to see us focus on.
How to Advance Your Career When Your Company is Downsizing
Whether the cause is technological advancements, shifting market dynamics, or evolving customer expectations, companies are restructuring at a rapid pace. You have to be ready for transitions both big and small at any moment. Hard times reveal your character and where your leadership is needed most. You can choose to adopt the perspective of seeing upheaval as a crucible moment that presents an opportunity to provide value and emerge as a resilient, influential leader who drives positive change.
Harvard Business Review
Office Hours: There’s some good structure in this article relating to a previous post around reframing. The article also refers to something that will be covered in future posts around quick wins.
The Importance Of Upskilling And Continuous Learning In 2023
To ensure future career success, professionals will need to be proactive and adaptable to stay relevant and thrive in their careers. For leaders, staying competitive will require pushing for more learning initiatives within the organization, facilitating upskilling opportunities for their employees while providing and participating in leadership training.
Forbes
What If Instead of Trying to Manage Your Time, You Set It Free?
There’s also this irony where, in situations in the past, I felt like I needed to protect my time more so that I could do things that I wanted, and it obscured the fact that what I wanted was a sense of connection and meaning, and in order to get that I would have to do something that looked like giving my time away.
New York Times Magazine
Office Hours: A great interview here with Jenny Odell, focusing on her new book, ‘Saving Time’. Buy it here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/443150/saving-time-by-odell-jenny/9781847926845.
At the end of the day, your team are humans with their own personal lives, dreams and problems. As a manager, you need to do more than just get the most out of them at work, but show that you’re receptive to each of their unique experiences and willing to accommodate them when possible. When employees know a manager has their back and can help them reach their goals, that’s true leadership.
Business News Daily
As Brené Brown said in her book Dare to Lead, in order “to be the person who we long to be, we must again be vulnerable. We must take off the armor, put down the weapons, show up, and let ourselves be seen” (Brown, 2018). Brown (2018) also talks about daring leadership. In this context, being a leader is not just defined by a role but rather one’s behavior and mindset.
Frontiers in Psychology
The Third Place, and What It Means For Your Career Development
Career advancement comes down to three things: expertise, experiences and relationships. If you accept that premise, and understand the value and benefits of what the third place provides, you can begin to look for opportunities for career development, outside of just thinking that it happens in your office (whether that's your home, or in an office) and regardless of what your company thinks or what their policy is.
Work In Progress
Office Hours: Shout out to fellow Substacker Work In Progress, aka Al Dea who talks about the importance of balance for career growth and development.