It can take just as much work to advance your career as it took to start it, but the results can be well worth the effort. Career advancement involves solid business leadership and motivation training and a desire to advance in your chosen career or explore new career options.
These four basic career advancement concepts will help you gain career success.
1. Speak from a financial perspective.
The more you advance in your career, the more financial responsibilities you will be given. When presenting your financial accomplishments, you want to be as specific as possible. Don't just say you can do this, this and this. Explain your value to the company in clear terms with real examples. Show how you can secure additional funding, gain new resources, stay on or under budget, and find the right people to help accomplish this.
2. There is No "I" in Team
As tempting as it is to take full credit for every achievement, it is important to show that you can work well with others. Every decision you make should be for the benefit of the company and your co-workers. It shouldn't be all about your advancement. By building positive relationships, you will emphasize your leadership skills and ability to focus efforts to accomplish a task.
3. Do Your Best Now
It is important to do the best you can do right now. Taking on added responsibilities without being asked and doing more than what is expected of you will likely make you stand out from the crowd. You will soon become an asset to the company. This often leads to more challenging projects and tasks.
4. Think Outside of the Box
It is easy to go along with what everybody else is doing. However, being creative and unconventional in your approach to business tasks is the difference between a leader and a follower and can actually make you more valuable to a company. Approach each situation from a different perspective. Leaders set trends; they don't follow them.
A big part of my program is to encourage clients to write down ways that these business leadership and motivation training techniques can be immediately used in their current careers. Using the this last concept as an example, a client might write:
• Go back and look at an unfinished project from a new perspective.
• Document ways to save money on a future project.
• Clearly show how a new approach to an existing problem can work during the next project meeting.
It doesn't take long to master these techniques. However, it is important to get started now. My business leadership and motivation training, along with a desire to set yourself apart from the crowd, will give you all that is needed to advance your career.
Joel Garfinkle is a convention, conference, and special event speaker who has worked closely with thousands of executives from large companies such as Proctor & Gamble, Cisco, and Morgan Stanley. Find out how you can get him to speak at your next business convention by visiting his website at http://www.joelinspirationalspeaker.com/.
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