Hi,
this is Grace again and I just got done recording two brand new episodes of my
podcast and my podcast is
the Career Revisionist Podcast. If you haven't had a chance to check that out,
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So I was just recording two brand new episodes and one of the episodes that I
was talking about was on the six phases of your career. You know,
everybody goes through these six phases and at each phase of your career,
your employers and your peers will value you based on different things.
So I've had an opportunity to speak about
this topic and topics like that from the stage. And I always get asked,
you know, my people, my audience, my listeners are always asking me, well,
I want to grow in my career, I want to accelerate my career,
I want to take my career to the next level.
And there's so many different things that I know I need to learn in order to get
there, right?
If I want a promotion, if I want to get a raise,
if I want to be at the peak of my career, I need to learn new things.
I need to constantly be learning,
but there's only a finite time of the day. There's only 24 hours in the day.
How do I know what skills I should focus on?
How do I know what skills I need to focus on?
I also have other people asking me a similar question where they say,
I have so many interests. I love learning. I love go to school, I love learning,
but I want to be sure that I'm using my time wisely.
So how do I know which interest to focus on? And that's a valid question and
I completely understand because I love learning too.
I mean, of course, most of the things I learned,
I learned in college and if you've been following me for some time
now, you know that I spent 10 years in university right through to my PhD.
So I love learning, but since I graduated from college, I've become,
I've come to value self learning and I call myself an autodidact,
an autodidact, which means I'm a self learner.
I love to pick up materials and learn on my own. So I want to talk to about,
I want to address that question. So a lot of you have been asking me,
how do I know what to focus on? What skill should I choose? So here's the thing,
when you're approaching decisions, any decision in your career,
it's good to approach it from a business perspective.
And here's what I mean by that. You are making decisions on your career,
right?
But you are also the product of what you're selling.
Everything that you're doing, every relationship that you're
building, any time that you want to move up in your career,
anytime you want to move up to the next level of your career,
you need to sell someone on that opportunity.
You need to sell someone on giving you
opportunities on helping you to get there.
So you are constantly in marketing and selling you yourself.
So that means that you are an entrepreneur. You are a CEO,
and the brand that you're selling is you, right? So with that in mind,
the approach here is to think about a company from the perspective on what a
company needs. If you want to choose,
if you want to be sure that the decision you're making, the skill that you're
focusing on is going to get you to that next level.
Let's go back to the basics here. Every company that you can possibly work for,
every employer that you can
possibly work for, what is one thing that they all need?
They need to grow too, right?
Any company you work for any employer they need to grow and growth to them means
revenue, right?
A company will only be sustainable if they scale,
if they can increase their revenue, if they can, in other words,
increase their sales.
So for you to be valuable for you to be irreplaceable and accelerate your career
every year. onward. If you can build,
if you can choose a skill that will help them to grow,
increase their revenues,
that will help them to solve the problems and the roadblocks they're currently
facing in growth and sustainability,
then that is what will accelerate you to that next level.
And I'm not saying that you need to become a salesperson
because that's usually what people think when they first, when they think about,
well, in order to increase a company's revenue, it's about sales, isn't it?
So I have to become a sales person? No, that's not true. Think about this.
Yes, a salesperson,
there's one in the field. They're the ones that are customer facing.
They interact with customers, they bring the customers in,
they attract the customers. Yes.
So they are directly involved in revenue creation.
But think about all the other roles within a company itself that have an
influence, a strong impact on revenue
growth and the company's sustainability.
These are all the support roles as well.
There are also business focused functions within a company.
And the business focus functions in the company
are the ones that are executive levels, VP levels,
or even with a business an exact strategic role within the
business they're not sales, right?
But they have their role and their expertise and their experiential value is
directly correlated with helping that company solve their growth problems.
So if you can choose, if you have,
if you can choose a skill that will get you to the next level so that you can
use
your time wisely, you're learning something new,
you are constantly challenging yourself and getting your career
to that next level.
Choose a skill to focus on that will help the company, your company,
your a future employer or your current employer to solve those roadblocks.
So that means that you have to be clear for yourself what are
the real problems that my company is facing or what is the real problem that the
company that I'm interested in
is facing that is preventing them from moving forward to the next stage.
So you have to do a little bit of a recon work here.
You have to do a little bit of detective work here and to understand what is the
future mission of that company?
What are they striving towards,
what are their innovations telling you about them? You know, what are their
visions for their own future? And any time a company wants to grow,
which is all of them, they all want growth. They all want sustainability.
They are going to be facing problems, right?
And you have to do a bit of recon work.
and discover what are those potential roadblocks,
the real struggles that they could be, they could be facing right
now or in the near future.
Chances are they are already facing problems right now.
Every company is because all
companies are made of people and people aren't perfect.
Systems are never perfect. Structures are never perfect.
So where is it that you can fit in with your current expertise and what is that
gap
that you need to fill in order for you to have that acceleration in your career?
So if you want to be irreplaceable, if you want to get to that next level,
ask yourself what is that skill that will help
them to solve that problem?
And usually that problem is a problem in terms of their company growth and their
sustainability. So if that's you and you're wondering,
I have so many interests and which one to which skill should I focus on?
Or if you're wondering,
well I don't want to make a poor choice but I only have a finite period of time,
which skill should I focus on?
Then that's the skill that you should think about.
What is that one skill that will help
them to increase their revenue and will help that company to accelerate their
growth and to expand and to scale
and to make sure that that company is sustainable. Right.
And if you stack that upon that new skill that you are, that you are choosing,
if you stack that upon your current skills.
The skills that you have had that you went through.
Maybe you went through formal education, maybe you
trained and you gained some new skills on the job or in your area of expertise
and you stack that upon that, then you are creating something extremely unique,
right? And if that skill is going to help them to get more
revenue combined with your previous experiential value,
then that is how you become irreplaceable in your marketplace.
So I'm driving in my car right now and I just thought that I wanted to share
this with you. I just couldn't wait to share it with you. So here I am.
If you want to find out more though, and you want a little bit
of guidance on how do I accelerate my career,
how do I get the growth that I want? I have something for you and
it is absolutely free.
It is a four day training that I created just for that purpose because I was so
excited. I wanted to share with you
this new methodology.
So if you're curious and you want to find out more of what you can do to
accelerate your career, then go to careerrevisionist.com/training
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