You might use the less-successful career development strategies below when focused on surviving the day-to-day demands of your current role. We’ve all at one point or another succumbed to these default-mode approaches. Recognize any of these?
- Not understanding how the talent management system in your company works overall – what it is, who is involved, and who is well regarded
- Not knowing what factors are considered high potential and not using those to inform your development plan
- Presuming you know what skills and experiences you’ll want or need later or in what direction your career will go
- Not continuously and actively working on growing capacity and capabilities
- Failing to intentionally build a portfolio of leadership skills and experiences early in your career when you have more leeway and less pressure to get it perfect
- Not letting key leaders know what you’re up to and expecting them to discover it
- Not investing a little at a time to build long...
