Career Planning

  • 6 Courses | 2h 25s
  • 6 Books | 19h 42m
  • 13 Audiobooks | 51h 25m 36s
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Take control of your career planning, and leverage these tools and techniques to create a path for your professional growth. Professional growth and career advancement offer some obvious benefits. You can earn a higher salary, work on more exciting projects, and find new roles. Learn professional growth strategies to help you improve your skills, take on more responsibility at work, and advance in your career.

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Power Up: Turning on Your Self-starter Potential

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COURSES INCLUDED

Power Up: Turning on Your Self-starter Potential
Self-starters take initiative, work without supervision, and begin projects independently. Organizations are always looking for people who come to the table with creative ideas, who find work that needs to be done and do it without waiting to be told. But self-starters also gain personal benefits from being someone who takes responsibility for their own happiness, the success of their work and relationships, the morale of their workplace, and their life. In this course, you'll learn the characteristics that most self-starters have in common, and why they are valued as employees and as leaders. You'll also learn the skills you need to build or enhance your own self-starting toolbox, the barriers you may encounter on the path to being a self-starter, and strategies to overcome those challenges.
6 videos | 22m has Assessment available Badge
Developing a Plan to Further Your Career
The whole notion of what a career is has changed. You are now responsible for managing your career. And the straightest path toward your goal is not always clear. In this course, you'll learn how to take an inventory of your values, interests, skills, and lifestyle aspirations in order to develop your career management skills. You'll also learn strategies for identifying your strengths and dealing with weaknesses. Then you'll learn how to pull it all together and develop a career plan based on your attributes and what you want to achieve. This course also provides tips on how to deal with any weaknesses that are holding you back.
7 videos | 18m has Assessment available Badge
Getting Your Career on the Right Track
Are you happy in your job? Or drifting along without a career plan? Either way, being proactive about where your career is heading is a good start. Exploring your career options is an important part of managing your career. In this course, you'll learn how to develop your career management skills and give your career a boost. You'll get tips on improving career prospects and moving within your current company. You'll learn how to use a promotion plan and explore the best ways to ask for assignments that will move your career forward. And you'll find out how to make a break and move on.
7 videos | 17m has Assessment available Badge
Using Performance Appraisals to Advance Your Career
Many people don't always recognize the growth opportunities they are presented with by getting feedback. This course will explain how to manage the performance appraisal process to your benefit. You'll be given tips for listening to and applying feedback so you can use your formal and informal performance appraisals to your best advantage. It also outlines how to implement the periodic appraisal strategy to move your career forward, and ways to recognize and use constructive criticism for self-development.
8 videos | 21m has Assessment available Badge
Developing Your Business Acumen
Business acumen is a difficult to define combination of forethought, creativity, and agility that is a key factor in setting successful business professionals apart from their less accomplished peers. But it doesn't just come from experience. It has to be cultivated and nurtured. In this course, you'll learn how developing professional acumen enhances your leadership, communication, and decision-making skills. And further, you'll learn that influences your company's competitive advantage and explore methods for developing an operational perspective to uncover opportunities for change or innovation.
6 videos | 20m has Assessment available Badge Certification PMI PDU
Gaining Insight through Organizational Awareness
The best leaders have a clear picture of their organizations' people and systems, and what drives them in their chosen career. Effective leaders are also aware of each employee's career plan, their motivations, how they interact with one another, as well as the power dynamics between staff members. In this course, you'll learn about organizational awareness and how it relates to career management. You'll also explore how you can develop organizational awareness when managing your career to advance your professional goals.
6 videos | 20m has Assessment available Badge Certification PMI PDU
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BOOKS INCLUDED

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The Career Catapult: Shake Up the Status Quo and Boost Your Professional Trajectory
Leaping into a revised career trajectory requires quick and purposeful movement. In this practical resource, the author offers five essential disciplines that will catapult you along the fast track.
book Duration 2h 10m book Authors By Roopa Unnikrishnan

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Stretch: How to Future-Proof Yourself for Tomorrow's Workplace
Providing evidence-based guidance on obtaining the skills you will need to thrive in tomorrow's workplace, this book offers advice, valuable insights, anecdotes, and recommendations to make achieving your goals practical and within reach.
book Duration 4h 25m book Authors By Barbara Mistick, Karie Willyerd

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Build Your Reputation: Grow Your Personal Brand for Career and Business Success
Showing you how to master the skills of brand-building to develop a powerful profile and a formidable name, this detailed book gives you the inside track to the top, with practical wisdom and strategic advice for building your own brand.
book Duration 3h 29m book Authors By Rob Brown

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Love Your Job: The New Rules of Career Happiness
Exploring all the routines, habits, and thought patterns that, over the years, may have turned a dream job into a drudge or, worse, a nightmare, this book offers simple techniques that can help you adopt the attitude that will keep you happy and that might just lead to bigger and better things, no matter what stage of your career you are in.
book Duration 3h 14m book Authors By Kerry Hannon

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The Successful Career Toolkit: Your Quick-Fire Guide to Mastering Business Skills
With practical, interactive exercises throughout, this helpful survival guide uses tried-and-trusted coaching techniques to help you face any imaginable workplace challenge providing concise and empowering guidance on a range of essential business skills.
book Duration 3h 21m book Authors By Patrick Barr

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One Bold Move a Day: Meaningful Actions Women Can Take to Fulfill Their Leadership and Career Potential
An essential roadmap to help women at every stage of their career feel stronger, more confident, and more intentional in their goals
book Duration 3h 3m book Authors By Shanna A. Hocking
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED

AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY

Great Work, Great Career: How to Create Your Ultimate Job and Make an Extraordinary Contribution
Great Work, Great Career shows job seekers and professionals how to build on their strengths and passions to identify and actualize a career path that provides true satisfaction and fulfillment. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
audiobook Duration 16m 14s audiobook Authors By Jennifer Colosimo, Stephen R. Covey

AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY

Career Moves: Be Strategic About Your Future, Revised and Enhanced Edition
Career Moves shows you how you can use the latest research on workforce development trends, critical competencies, and areas of expertise to ensure success in a changing workplace. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
audiobook Duration 20m 36s audiobook Authors By Annabelle Reitman, Caitlin Williams

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Trajectory: 7 Career Strategies to Take You from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
This audio edition provides the tools you need for a lifetime of advancement, from building relationships with mentors, to positioning (and repositioning) yourself for promotion.
audiobook Duration 4h 9m 5s audiobook Authors By David L. Van Rooy

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Stealing the Corner Office: The Winning Career Strategies They'll Never Teach You in Business School
This audio edition explores the unconventional tactics people less competent than you use to get ahead and stay ahead.
audiobook Duration 5h 44m 3s audiobook Authors By Brendan Reid

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What to Do When You're New: How to Be Comfortable, Confident, and Successful in New Situations
This audio edition combines the author's research with that of leading scientists to explain why we are so uneasy in new situations--and how we can learn to become more confident and successful newcomers.
audiobook Duration 6h 18m 52s audiobook Authors By Keith Rollag

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Career Advantage: Real World Applications from Great Work, Great Career
This audio edition teaches you how to create your ultimate job and make an extraordinary contribution by helping you create an effective resume, hone your interview skills, and become the solution - not the problem - for an organization. Read by authors.
audiobook Duration 1h 41m 3s audiobook Authors By Jennifer Colosimo, Stephen R. Covey

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Forget a Mentor, Find a Sponsor: The New Way to Fast-Track Your Career
This audio edition reveals the "two-way street" that makes sponsorship such a strong and mutually beneficial alliance, and contains a seven-step map that allows you to chart your course toward your greatest goals.
audiobook Duration 4h 39m 21s audiobook Authors By Sylvia Ann Hewlett

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Up Is Not the Only Way: Rethinking Career Mobility
This audio edition distills the solutions to complex issues involving engagement and retention, in a simple and practical way.
audiobook Duration 2h 28m 11s audiobook Authors By Beverly Kaye, Lindy Williams, Lynn Cowart

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Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career
This audio edition will show you how to generate new opportunities, cultivate your creative expertise, build valuable relationships, and take bold, new risks so that you can utilize your talents to the fullest.
audiobook Duration 3h 32m 26s audiobook Authors By Jocelyn K. Glei

Audiobook

Superconductors: Revolutionize Your Career and Make Big Things Happen
The audio edition is your treasure trove of exclusive interviews and hands-on self-development exercises to inspire you and push you into action.
audiobook Duration 7h 16m 47s audiobook Authors By Derek Loudermilk

Audiobook

Promote Yourself: The New Rules for Career Success
This audio edition provides every listener with the skills and message that they'll need to get ahead today and for the rest of their careers.
audiobook Duration 7h 54m 33s audiobook Authors By Dan Schawbel

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Taking Charge of Your Career
This book will inspire you to: decide what a meaningful career looks like to you, align yourself with the right supporters and mentors, approach hard decisions with confidence, navigate difficult transitions, and be your own biggest advocate.
audiobook Duration 4h 38s audiobook Authors By Harvard Business Review

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Career Anchors Reimagined: Finding Direction and Opportunity in the Changing World of Work
In the newly revised edition of Career Anchors: Finding Direction and Opportunity in the Changing World of Work, a team of world-renowned management and culture experts delivers a uniquely insightful exploration of your own career values and work relationships as they relate to your past and future choices.
audiobook Duration 3h 3m 47s audiobook Authors By Edgar H. Schein, John Van Maanen, Peter A. Schein
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SKILL BENCHMARKS INCLUDED

Career Planning
Take control of your career and succession planning, and leverage these tools and techniques to create a path for your professional growth. Professional growth and career advancement offer some obvious benefits. You can earn a higher salary, work on more exciting projects, and find new roles through career planning. Learn professional growth strategies to help you improve your skills, take on more responsibility at work, and advance in your career. This benchmark evaluates your understanding of this topic. Being aware of potential knowledge gaps allows you to better understand your current competency and areas for improvement, so you can find suitable content and curate your own learning path. The courses recommended at the end of this benchmark can help you fill potential gaps in your knowledge.
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