First of all, understand employers want you.
And you have skills.
Skills are like the currency of workforce.
It's what we trade in.
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So for many of us, career progression
can be pretty scary and intimidating.
So what do you feel changes as you begin to climb that ladder?
And is it as scary as it seems from the ground below?
As you move up, you get more power
and you can use that power to help people.
So when you remember all the things
you were irritated about when you were climbing up,
I think it's your responsibility to hold that and try
to do better than what you might have seen before.
But the skills of complex problem-solving
and critical thinking become more important.
I would say day to day, you see more issues
you have to make a decision on, that aren't
necessarily black or white.
And so it's like you're weighing the pros and cons,
and you have to make a complicated decision.
Your own personal values come into play
more because you're really shaping and setting
the direction of companies in dealing
with these complicated situations.
And so honing in on those skills I think
can be helpful if climbing the ladder
is something you're interested in.
What are varying steps that you think
people can take to best prepare themselves
for the next stage of their career as they progress?
First of all, understand employers want you.
And you have skills.
Skills are like the currency of workforce.
It's what we trade in.
It's like your skills matter.
And so skills are also transferable.
And so it's like how did I run a zoo,
run a cancer care executive at a hospital
because it was similar skills regardless of where I was at.
And you don't just gain skills from your work experience.
You gain skills from volunteering,
from what you do in the community,
and then just step back and be like, what do you love,
what excites you?
What are you passionate about?
Because you could be in accounting in Broadway.
You could be in accounting at a zoo.
You could be in accounting in a consulting company.
And so a lot of the work is that deep work
of where do you light up when you
think about where you're going to spend
the majority of your day.
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Do you feel that there are any career development resources,
be it courses or books or podcasts
that you would recommend for the audience today.
The times of my life when I've learned skills
that I've enjoyed the most, I haven't done it by myself.
I've said who's a community of people
that I can surround myself with, whether it's at a library,
whether it's online, whether it's at work, that give you
that motivation to keep going and be curious and think about,
OK, I'm willing to upskill and reskill.
But when it gets hard, someone that
might have your back as you're going through that journey.
You've worked both in for in nonprofit sectors.
How does career progression look different across these varying
industries?
For profit career tracks with large companies
have sort of more predictability of what role you could go into.
Some of them have very fixed roles,
like associate manager, senior manager, director, VP,
and so on.
I think nonprofits, there's a lot more openness
to creativity.
Maybe creating your own roles.
You see a lot more smaller organizations.
So one person might have to wear a lot of different hats.
But there's pros and cons I would say of both approaches.
What is the most useful advice that you've
received about career advancement or progression
from a mentor or a colleague?
Someone said to me once that my job
is to empower trusted organizations.
And I was like, what does that mean?
Why would that be my job?
Elaborate.
And when I started learning more about that,
it shifts your mindset, first of all,
that you don't need to be everything.
You don't need to learn everything.
But if you look at where people go, what they trust,
and why they trust it, and you sort of double click on it.
Why do they trust that?
You start to get curious.
And when you start to get curious about what works,
there's a real authentic learning I think that happens.
And it's just a really interesting lens
in which to view the world.