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11. Charting You Career Growth
There are different strategies you can use to develop your carrer action plans:
  • Self-assessment
  • Performance appraisal
  • Career workshops
  • Management training opportunities
  • Lateral moves for more experience
  • Mentoring
  • Special developmental assignments

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    One of the best ways you can enhance your career growth is to apply the following techniques:
    1. Set SMART career goals.
    2. Identify your strengths and weaknesses.
    3. Ask for appropriate training.
    4. Request developmental assignments.
    5. Explore career choice alternatives.
    6. Develop your action plans.
    7. Take actions and monitor your progress.
    Here are some key strategies on how to build a supportive network of colleagues, peers and other contacts:
  • Share information among peers.
  • Associate with people of different background.
  • Deposit credits into your networking accounts.
  • Know the resources available in your network.
  • Create alliances and partnerships.
  • Use rapport to your best advantage.
  • Make yourself into an asset to your network.
  • Expand your network at every opportunity.

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    To be effective and successful as a manager, you need to be embracing continuous learning and training as a way of life. You have to:
  • Want to improve yourself and grow.
  • Recognize the power of learning through experience.
  • Be responsible for your own career.
  • Be accountable for your own development.
  • View education as a continuous, life-long endeavor.
  • Decide to practice SMART learning.
  • Understanding how it can affect your performance.

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    To manage your career growth, you need to:
  • Align your career goal with your core values.
  • Link it to your organization's business strategy.
  • Apply the principles of personal management.
  • Use the available resources within your organization.
  • Seek advice from your mentors.
  • Network effectively with all your contacts.
  • Learn the key emerging management skills.
  • Chart your career advancement.
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