Career Championing: Preparation & Opportunity

So we look at preparation opportunity there's three scenarios that I would like to present.

The first is preparation where it's bifurcated as personal experiences I've had championing my own career and facilitating assignments and qualifications to ascend my career ladder and also championing the careers of aspiring leaders and team members that I had the opportunity to work with.

And then the third scenario is opportunity which centers on encouraging organizational culture and structure in order to make the best for the people that's involved.

Now, as success relates to opportunity and preparation, in previous episodes, Command at Sea, The Culture of Human Excellence, I introduced an elevated flat work structure to promote encouraging work environments where people are encouraged to act.

I highlighted methods to achieve enduring success through five Ds, which is desire, determination, dedication.

discipline and discovery.

I discuss how to facilitate this success in the command at sea when I address my seller development programs and my coach protege initiatives that allow my sailors to experience unprecedented success.

So this episode will focus on how to realize the methods to champion successful careers in any organization.

It will demonstrate how to hold an organization to account without disrupting systemic protocols or upset the apple cart per se.

Preparation connects the five dimensions to the human success effort that I presented in episode 15 when I talked about human performance.

So let's look at in the seven habits of highly effective people.

Stephen R.

Covey identifies two circles.

One is the circle of influence, the other one is the circle of concern.

And I always looked at the circle of influence as it pertains to the matter that one can directly impact.

So that circle should be as wide as possible.

And conversely, the circle of concerns are matters one has no control over.

So that circle should be as small as possible, even down to a dot per se.

Now, the largest circle is one of influence.

It's considered preparation.

The honors is on us to exert ourselves to prepare for the goals that we envision.

Now, regarding opportunity, the honors is on the organization to establish an encouraging working environment through professional development.

and empowering others to act.

Let's look at strategic human resource development pathways, dynamic talent management tools for re-skilling and multi-skilling in order to have a culture of excellent initiatives that should be in place to facilitate opportunity for enduring success.