Tips for Work and Life with Andrew LaCivita

10 Tactics to Advance Your Career [Skill-Building Bible Inside!]

Dec 17, 2024
Unlock your career potential with ten transformative tactics! Discover why feedback should always be timely and how to define your personal success metrics. Learn to assess your skill level and identify performance gaps. Create a structured skill-building plan that aligns with real project deliverables. Understand the five key practices crucial for career acceleration and the importance of regular feedback. Gain insights on using systems and repetition to enhance learning, ensuring you're always on track for growth!
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INSIGHT

Career Development Is Rare And Incomplete

  • Less than one in ten employees have a structured career development model at their company.
  • Without measurable behaviors and levels, feedback becomes surprising and ineffective.
ADVICE

Write Down What Success Looks Like

  • Define what success looks like with concrete behaviors and outputs, not just metrics.
  • Ask "If I take this job, what will I have produced in a year that is a raging success?"
INSIGHT

Benchmark Levels Accurately

  • Mislabeling someone's level causes wrong expectations and stalled development.
  • Managers often forget what it feels like to be a beginner and overestimate hires' proficiency.
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