Our career is up to us! So we need to own it. Nobody owes us anything, not a promotion, not a salary increase nor professional development opportunities. To take charge we must become experts of ourselves. This slides offer a few tips on where to start.

1. OWN YOUR
CAREER
“Becoming and expert of yourself”

3. DO YOU
ACTUALLY PLAN
YOUR CAREER?

4. Talent Investment
Strength
MULTIPLIER EFFECT
Adapted from T. Rath StrenghtsFinder

5. Strength
10
Investment
5
Talent
2
PERSON X PERSON Y
Strength
25
Investment
5
Talent
5
Adapted from T. Rath StrenghtsFinder

6. Can you describe
your strengths??
3
paragraphs
3
sentences
3
words

7. strategic
❖ See connections and
linkages
❖ Pre positioning for medium
and long term
❖ Influencing & Convincing
❖ Relationship building &
maintenance
❖ Fighting battles wisely
resilient
❖ Heat & pressure
❖ Criticism
❖ Flexible and adapt quickly
to new reality
❖ Don’t mind being in the
“line of fire”
❖ Self-assurance &
self-reliant
imaginative
❖ Experimenting
❖ Trying
❖ Building & creating (a team,
a curriculum, culture etc.)
❖ Ideas & intuition
❖ Creative problem solving
Example

8. You cannot be anything you want to be,
but you can be a lot more of
who you already are

9. What is your biggest
career challenge?

10. What have you done to try and solve the problem?
What is your biggest challenge right now? What is
standing in your way?
What are you doing NOT to solve the problem? What
are you doing to NOT achieve your goal?

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