#20 - Targeting Well for Your Next Move
Targeting Well for Your Next Career Move | 4 Key Competencies for a Successful Career | Burnout isn’t Inevitable
Hello,
This newsletter may look patchy, yet there is a common thread connecting all its seemingly unrelated dots: it’s good sometimes to stop and think what we’re doing and why. This edition is about targeting well for your next career move, mastering the 4 competences that are the key building blocks to a successful career and not burning yourself out in the process.
New Article: Your Next Career Move: What If You Were Confusing Means and Ends?
What if the way you define your potential next career choices actually stood in the way of your success? If you confuse means and ends in how you view your possible career moves, it can either paralyse your action or make you waste your efforts focusing on the wrong problem. My new article is about the dangers of ill-defining your possible career moves and the solutions that help avoid the confusion. - Better Career Transitions Blog
Book Recommendation: The CEO Next Door
Whether you aspire to become a CEO one day or not, there are four competencies that are great contributors to a successful career. This book is a playbook of tried-and-true and repeatable practices that anyone can benefit from to accelerate the journey to the top of one’s aspirations. Most of us can master these competencies with hard work, close attention, and useful techniques. - Better Career Transitions Blog
Recommended Podcast: Worklife with Adam Grant: Burnout is Everyone’s Problem
Burnout seem to be everywhere, but it’s not inevitable. Sometimes avoiding burnout is not about less work, it’s about more meaning. And about small wins that will carry you through high-pressure days and months. - Worklife with Adam Grant on TED
Recommended Article: What Happens When Your Career Becomes Your Whole Identity
Nurturing aspects of our life and personality that are unrelated to your job or status is another good insurance policy against a burnout in a high-pressure environment. Many people with high-pressure jobs find themselves unhappy with their careers, despite working hard their whole lives to get to their current position. Hating your job is one thing — but what happens if you identify so closely with your work that hating your job means hating yourself? - Harvard Business Review
Stay healthy, make sure you’re solving the right problems and keep yourself away from a burnout,
Arina
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