Workplace Success
Ten Steps to Career Advancement
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This is a guide that focuses on workplace interactions; behaviors and relationships that will help you achieve career success. Based on her own career journey that includes DOD, Office of the Secretary of Defense (assignments in Japan, Philippines, England, and Belgium), and advisor to the Director of Central Intelligence on Workforce Issues and Diversity Management, the author painstakingly addresses ten key steps that illuminate a prescription for workplace success. Outlined under each of the ten steps are optional actions and strategies that can be immediately put to use. The author includes job aides to help the reader assess skills and competencies. As an added bonus at the end of the guide, the author identifies a list of Workplace Dirty Dozen Behaviors that she believes are detrimental to career success and advancement.
To facilitate the reader in planning and implementing a course of action, the author provides a personal action planning form at the end of each step. The form is a tool that helps the reader identify personal action steps, including notes to refer to later. The process facilitates documentation of strategies and ideas that could e helpful to advancing one’s career.
This guide is particularly useful for new and returning workers. College students who are about to embark on their career journeys might find this guide very useful prior to and during the initial employment period. Without a doubt, those first few weeks on the job can be rather contentious due partly to building new relationships and the learning curve of adjusting to new work demands.
Let this guide provide you with insights that can bring you a sense of balance, smooth the transition from college to work, and lessen the stress of dealing with those nuisances and unwritten rules prevalent in most work environments today.