Ms. Career Girl

Top Menu

  • Home
  • Media
  • About
    • Terms of Use
    • Privacy Policy
  • Advertise
  • Contact
    • PR and FTC Disclosure
  • Subscribe

Main Menu

  • Home
  • Careers
    • Productivity
    • Career Confessions
    • #SideHustle
    • Job Search Advice
    • Resume Optimization Tool
    • Job Board
  • Lifestyle
    • Life After College
    • Health & Beauty
    • Style
    • Money
    • Travel & Leisure
    • Product Reviews
  • Relationships
    • Dating
    • Marriage
    • Working Moms
  • Specials
    • Real Career Girls
    • Style Your Life
    • Book Club
    • Giveaways
  • Home
  • Media
  • About
    • Terms of Use
    • Privacy Policy
  • Advertise
  • Contact
    • PR and FTC Disclosure
  • Subscribe

logo

  • Home
  • Careers
    • Productivity
    • Career Confessions
    • #SideHustle
    • Job Search Advice
    • Resume Optimization Tool
    • Job Board
  • Lifestyle
    • Life After College
    • Health & Beauty
    • Style
    • Money
    • Travel & Leisure
    • Product Reviews
  • Relationships
    • Dating
    • Marriage
    • Working Moms
  • Specials
    • Real Career Girls
    • Style Your Life
    • Book Club
    • Giveaways
Homepage Features
Home›Homepage Features›How To Be a Success In Your Career Development

How To Be a Success In Your Career Development

By Maria Bashi
Jul 27, 2016
17060
0
Share:

We’ve all been there, stuck in a rut, feeling like our daily routine is becoming more and more of that typical ‘routine’ than ever before. But few of us realize that to avoid getting caught up with our daily routines we have to stretch our potential and take on new activities that challenge and push us to try out things that we wouldn’t necessarily choose to do ourselves. In this article, we’ve compiled a list of three different things you should consider pushing towards your manager (or onto your employees if you’re looking for a way to increase productivity and push your employees towards progression).

  1. Training Courses and qualifications

It goes without saying that in 2016 competition for jobs is probably fiercer than it’s ever been before. Whether it’s fighting for those university places, or, it’s that promotion that you and your colleague are both up against. The one thing that sets you apart from your obvious work effort and ability to work hard, is the qualifications that you have. Suggesting courses to your managers that can impact you is a great way of showing your boss how determined you are to get ahead.

Even more so if it’s something that can affect them and the business. Taking on specific courses that are relevant to the field of work that you’re in can benefit you massively. With the rise in marketing and the importance of IT a course that is based around analytics could be of excellent use to you. This would also be of great interest to your managers so would be sure to go down well! Places like Global Knowledge Network offer courses that you can do in your spare time which would be a great place to improve your skills and develop.

pexels-photo-102694

  1. Be positive

When you’ve had a bad day or hit a brick wall in your working week it’s so easy to start to become negative, thinking that you can’t do something, or that something isn’t possible, in fact this tends to be one of the first things we start to do. When in reality, are we jumping ahead and not looking at the ways we can turn around a situation around. Simply talking to members in our team can help us turn around a situation. It’s important to not be negative and remember that asking for support isn’t a bad thing!

  1. Work/life balance

One of the most important things, and potentially one of the most spoken about topics in the media at the moment when it comes to health and safety is around balancing your work with your lifestyle. We can all get caught up trying to meet deadlines and grab that promotion that we sacrifice key things such as socializing and doing things with our friends after work.

Image Source; Image Source

Previous Article

Embrace Change – Don’t Fear It

Next Article

Non-profit Organizations: Things You Need To Know

0
Shares
  • 0
  • +
  • 0
  • 0
Maria Bashi

Maria Bashi

Related articles More from author

  • Career ConfessionsHomepage FeaturesWork

    7 Ways to Earn More Respect and Influence as a Young Professional Woman

    Jan 27, 2011
    By Holland Banks
  • Homepage FeaturesWork

    How to Decide if You’re Ready to Move for A New Career

    Mar 27, 2013
    By Shannon Mcnay
  • Homepage FeaturesWhat's New

    Showing our #Hamptonality: Photos From Our Trip to Nashville

    Mar 17, 2013
    By Nicole Emerick
  • Homepage FeaturesSelfStyle

    What’s Your Engagement Ring Style?

    Mar 13, 2013
    By Katie Marotta Dawson
  • HomeHomepage Features

    Entertaining Idea: How to Make a Bloody Mary Bar

    Apr 13, 2013
    By Nicole Emerick
  • Book ClubHomepage FeaturesSelf

    April Book Club: Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office

    Apr 12, 2013
    By Nicole Emerick

  • Career ConfessionsLife After CollegeSelfWork

    A Tale of High Achieving Career Ladies

  • work in sales
    Life After CollegeSelfWork

    Why an entry level sales job is a great way to kickoff your career

  • #SideHustleLife After CollegeSelfWork

    Get a Modern Day Career Path Dream Catcher

Subscribe

Job Search

As seen on

career advice blog badge

Featured On

  • About
  • Contact
  • Advertise
  • Resume Optimization Tool
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms and Conditions
© Copyright 2021 Ms Career Girl