Strategic tips for managing your career – if you are – or seek to be – a paddler…

7. Keep your skills current at all times.

To be successful at managing your career, you must constantly upgrade and enhance your abilities. Seek out continuing education—learn new skills, methods, techniques, strategies, and tactics to stay at the leading edge of your field.

Whether you’re an executive chef, senior manager, or an individual contributor, you must be as good as you can be—there’s always a competitor one step behind you.  Fall is near, school starts for all children soon, and this is a great time to think about what skills you need to update or what new skills you need.

Spending 30 minutes a day you on your strengths or a skill, just five days a week will net you 130 hours of focus a year.  That is a small investment of time and will create solid mastery.  What skill do you need to hone?

Action Tip:

Identify a skill to update.  Write down why it is important to you to update this skill.  Now, develop a plan to hone or update your skill.

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