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January 26, 2013 By 2 Comments

#026 Graduation, Career Progression and Plagiarism [Leadership Success Podcast]

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I starting this episode by telling my story about how I found it very difficult to graduate myself from one level of my career to the next. I held on to comfortable tasks and projects for too long and didn’t take enough risks. I was afraid of commencement.

For Young Leaders

  1. Recognize where you need to grow. It starts with self-awareness and making an honest assessment of where you need to be.
  2. Be aware of what you tend to hold on to and what makes you comfortable. You may need to stop doing this stuff.
  3. Ask for help.
  4. Start becoming what you need to be. Take more risks and make mistakes.

For Leaders of Young Leaders

  1. Realize that most young professionals start out just trying to find right answers, avoid being wrong and please you.
  2. You’ll have to help move them along. You can do this with regular feedback and quarterly or semi-annual reviews.
  3. Set expectations about the need to make these transitions. Some will resist more than others. Help where you need, but start by telling them what you expect.
  4. Allow them to make mistakes. You know that higher level jobs don’t have an instruction manual, but they don’t.

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  • Dave M. sr.

    Very interesting and important topic. As you know, I am in the Engineering profession and I agree that helping those that you supervise succeed builds confidence, which allows professional growth. While reputation is a huge factor, the Engineering field is very competative and to satisfy client financial constraints, as the company pays us more, we must push tasks we may be good at, and comfortable performing to those we supervise. This progression does take us out of our comfort zone, and allows those who accept the challenge to grow.

  • http://www.davidpmariano.com/ Dave Mariano

    And when we move out of our comfort zones, we grow too! You are a wise man, Dave. I hope your kids are as smart as you ;)