You're six months into your job and doing well at your company. You feel you've already settled in, and you're ready for more responsibility. So you schedule some time with your boss and ask, "So, what can I do to get promoted?" Many of the managers I coach have told me this scenario is becoming more [...]
When you started your career, you most likely took on as many opportunities as possible to build your skills and discover your strengths and preferences. As a high-performer, you soon found your sweet spot and started to excel. When you are great at something, you'll find yourself with more opportunities than you have time. Now the [...]
Look at the work you've produced last year. If it doesn't look amateurish to you, you may not be learning fast enough. What did you do in the past year to better yourself and your skills? If you're not careful, you may fall for the Dunning-Kruger effect.
... make sure you're not falling for the Dunning–Kruger effect, a cognitive bias where the unskilled mistakenly assess their ability to be much higher than it really is. According to their study, Dunning and Kruger proposed that, for a given skill, incompetent people will fail to recognize: their own lack of skill the extent of their [...]
When it comes to your career, are you a professional or an amateur? The answer to this question has nothing to do with your job title and everything to do with your approach to your work and the experience you give to others. So, how do you know if you're a professional? Ask yourself, "Do [...]
