Suppose you find yourself out of work. Or maybe you are nervous about keeping the job you have.
Are there specific actions you can take today to improve your current worth within your existing team or teams you hope to be recruited for in the future?
The answer is yes.
In fact, there is a free survey you can download that gives you excellent feedback for determining how to improve your team skills in the privacy of your own home.
When times are tough, attending to your own personal and professional development is the number one thing you can do to improve your future career out look. And, for many organizations, professional training and development is one of the first programs to cut when revenues are down.
Leaving your professional development to the whim of your employer is always bad advice. Take charge and improve your prospects now to pave a golden road for yourself in the future.
Thank you for this free resource! I’m one of those people who at 50+ years old have been laid off by my company. But I have encountered set-backs before and I know that there is still hope as long as I keep on believing that older and experience workers like myself, have something of great value to contribute to the workplace.
And instead of fuelling my resentment with the unfairness of life, I will just focus on improving myself so I can persuade more business leaders and HR people, on how I and other older workers like me can help a company grow in this economy.
Thank you, David. I believe building your team skills is one of the number one ways you will make yourself more valuable to your subsequent employers.
Dianne
I like your idea of ‘taking charge of your development and not depending on the programs of your company’. We need to take responsibility for our own ‘global competitiveness’. Don’t be a one-dimensional employee that cannot work anywhere else aside from your current company.