When I work with clients on goal setting, we talk about two different types of professional goals. A lot of organizations now have fairly robust and supportive annual goal setting processes. Each year, managers work with employees to set individual goals aligned with organizational goals, and check in with them Read more…
I can’t remember the last time I saw a job posting that didn’t list among the skills needed for the role “Able to navigate uncertainty” or “Comfortable dealing with ambiguity.” Given the speed with which the workplace (and the world) is evolving, it’s not a surprise that uncertainty and ambiguity Read more…
When I was a Chief of Staff, I was new to the role and to the organization. I spent a lot of time and energy navigating the newness of the situation, and even without the element of learning it would have been a challenging job. I loved the role itself Read more…
Back in April I wrote a series on the importance of feedback. If you weren’t a subscriber yet or want a refresher, you can access the full series here. In the final part of the series, I referred to a framework for providing behavioral feedback – the SBI framework (Situation Read more…
I once worked with an organization with a wildly broken and inequitable compensation system. Hiring was driven completely by individual hiring managers, and it was up to them to advocate for whatever salary they felt appropriate. This means that people started at very different starting points depending on their team. Read more…
Have you ever taken a personality test? I am kinda obsessed with them, especially now that they are freely accessible. I think I probably took my first Myers-Briggs test when I was in college or maybe in my first job. I could never remember the results – mainly because all Read more…
Earlier this week, I wrote about the Career Roadmap – a visual map of critical inflection points along an emerging or developing career path. As I worked through the pieces of the Career Roadmap with a colleague, we uncovered another early challenge might arise for folks as they are mapping Read more…
Last week Almavina Strategic Partners launched our first product – the Virtual Mentor. It is a set of free resources that are anchored in the “Career Roadmap.” But what is the Career Roadmap? I’m glad you asked! A few weeks ago I had lunch with a longtime friend and colleague. Read more…
Feedback is essential when you are doing something risky. Something brave. Something that challenges you. While receiving feedback in those situations can be scary, the absence of feedback in some ways feels much worse. In the first installment of this series, I wrote “anything is better than nothing.” This is Read more…
Companies invest in their leadership – executive coaching for new CEOs, fellowships and leadership cohorts for their senior leaders, etc. But how do they invest in their younger employees? What would the workplace look like if every employee had a professional coach? If there were more opportunities for mentorship and Read more…