Career Development Tips: Be Your Own Best Advocate |Video

Are you ready to discover career development tips to use for yourself or your direct reports?

Certified Professional Coach, Lori Shook presented the ideas I’m sharing in this video to the World of Business and Executive Coaching Summit.

So how can you help yourself or your direct reports discover how to be their own best advocate?
Here’s a possible strategy:  Discover their internal inner board of directors.

I have used the exercise with coaching clients and the results are stellar.

Human Resource clients consider me their partner: especially when they have no time to coach:

• Emerging leaders to grow
• Employees who need to use their voice without losing their cool
• Managers who need to control difficult team members

The video below gives you ideas to get you started with this unique exercise. 

Here are EASY career development tips to help you identify your internal board of directors

I call this our internal wisdom.

We all have internal voices or characters that influence our behaviors. When we name them, we will be able to use them as resources.

There are NO good or bad board members. Some will be more useful than others at different times.

Here are several of the inner boards that my clients discovered:

• The energizer
• Frankenstein
• Am I good enough?
• Risk-averse
• Cheerleader
• Enjoy the journey
• Leader
• Controller

Start by asking these questions to add to your career development tips toolbox: 

• What is an inner voice that you really trust?
• Which inner characters help you succeed?
• What are the inner impulses that get in your way in important situations?

Define your board of directors and give them a name

• Which of your inner board will help you/hurt you/stop you?
• Invite the board members you want to use more often
• Find ways to manage the uninvited ones
• Take ownership of your behaviors

Look for my video next week which will cover more ideas on your Inner Board.

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Until Next Time,

Joyce Weiss, M.A., CSP, CVP
Conflict Resolution and Communication Coach
Queen of Conflict Resolution

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