Top 10 Career Success Articles of 2019

Top 10 Career Success Articles of 2019

If you want to accelerate to the next level in your career while not impacting your family relationships, you need to focus on 3 principles – Stand Out, Scale Up and Deliver Impact.

The articles I wrote in 2019 have been aligned around these 3 principles to help you achieve your personal career goals.

In case you missed these, here are the top 10 in 2019 as rated by google analytics.

What got you here, won’t get you there

#10 – Top 10 Ways to Raise Your Game After Promotion

You have just been promoted from the Championship to the Premiership, the new money and status are fantastic, but the top four and those in the relegation zone are not going to pay you any respect. Unless you raise your game, they will kick you straight back to the Championship.

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man working hard to get promotion

#9 – Hard Work & Time In Role Won’t Get You Promoted

After coaching many of my own team for promotion and evaluating many others on promotion committees, it takes more than just hard work and time in your role to get you promoted. Here are seven strategies that will improve your chances.

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You can do anything, but not everything

#8 – 4 Strategies to Help With Your Ever-Increasing Workload

Fact – as your leadership career grows, so will your workload. This is especially true in an industry that is going through so much change. How many hats do you wear today?

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highly irrational stakeholder

#7 – How to Deal With an Irrational Stakeholder

The post this week will show you a method I have used to turn an irrational stakeholder into a trusted partner.

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get your boss's job

#6 – Are You Visible Enough to Get Your Boss’s Role?

I was speaking with an ex-colleague this week who told me that his boss had moved to a different role and even though he felt like he was his boss’s number two, he didn’t get the top job.

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man going full reptile

#5 – How to Stop Yourself Going Full Reptile

There have been many times early in my career when I let my emotions take over my actions and upon reflection, these actions were not those of the future leader I wanted to become.

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man being a hero

#4 – Stop Being a Hero

Are you overloaded, continually context switching from email, meetings, projects and conversations?  Do you feel like you are never giving your best to anything and are exhausted at the end of the day?

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woman saying no

#3 – What’s the Impact of Saying No?

When you say yes to others, make sure you are not saying no to yourself.

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man contemplating career suicide

#2 – Promotion Opportunity or Career Suicide?

Have you been offered an exciting new opportunity at work?

More responsibility will take you closer to that promotion you want?

Do you feel excited?

Good, you should be. But before you accept this exciting opportunity, you should read this post to see if you can avoid career suicide.

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man kissing career goodbye

#1 – Get Promoted and Kiss Your Career Goodbye

Are you up for promotion this year?

As the end of the year approaches and you still haven’t had any bad news, then there is a high chance it’s in the bag.

Imagine what you can do with that extra money and how proud you will feel when you tell your friends and family about this great news?

But this promotion could mean you kiss your career goodbye. Are you ready for that?

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