A lack of awareness of your skills, experience, and impact, by your manager, senior leadership, and hiring managers results in them not thinking of you when new opportunities develop. Confidently, and impactfully, creating awareness of your abilities and results enhances your career growth.

Failure to speak up and share your ideas with confidence prevents your voice from being heard, and your ideas from being considered. Worse yet your peers have more influence, and by extension opportunities. Developing the confidence to crisply and clearly communicate your ideas, vision, and strategies with confidence, ensures you will be viewed in a favourable light by leadership.

Ineffective sharing of your ideas and impact, in meetings, presentations, and one on one interactions with leadership, ultimately leads to an underappreciation for, and lack of recognition of, your work and impact. Having the ability to confidently and professionally deliver presentations, design and introduce a strategy, lead and implement change, and lead a high performing team, are all key in demand skills and competencies.

It is hard to get things done when you don’t have strong partnerships and relationships. Building professional and collaborative relationships with your team, your manager, and across the organization, is imperative, especially in the hybrid work environment we now operate in. Developing an active professional network outside your organization, as well as within, is a key to long term career success