Podcast — MASTERY EDGE

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This Podcast focuses on helping you to gain mastery, leverage your uniqueness and deliver results. We provide coaching for professionals who are making key transitions in their career journeys. We believe that developing personal mastery will continually refine your Mastery Edge.

13_Optimising your career

Career optimisation is really non-negotiable if you are going to remain relevant in the marketplace. A significant part of making the most of your career is not necessarily hinged on your core hard skills, rather it is based on a strategic blend of both hard skills and key soft skills. While technical or hard skills are necessary as core bases for getting into a role, when it comes to thriving on your role and making the most of your career, the place of your soft skills cannot be over emphasised. It is certainly arguable to say that your survival, success and significant in your career will be predicated on your ability to use your soft skills in optimising your hard skills.

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12_Setting yourself up for your career success

Your career as a professional is a life-long journey that requires your strategic engagement. Whether you choose to grow through the corporate ladder to building a business or you venture into building your own business. Whatever the route you take, the core objective of career growth is to be so good that the world can’t ignore you. Setting yourself up to Being so good they can’t Ignore you will help you to enhance your creativity, make impact, and exact your unique edge in the marketplace?

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11_Success tips for your first few weeks on a new role

Getting a new role is a major achievement considering the demands of the interview process, so would have to congratulate you for landing your new job. It is really something to celebrate. According to some research, the excitement of starting a new job could quickly turn to some kind of anxiety due to the fear of the unknown. This episode is to offer you tips that can help make your first day and first week on your new job a pleasant one.

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10_Your Winning Elevator Pitch-Tell me about yourself Question

One of the questions I often get asked is about the interview question “tell me about yourself”? The fact is that if there is any question you are sure to get in any interview, it is this very question – “Tell me about yourself”. This question may come in different flavours or phrasing, but it sure tops the list of the questions you get to answer. So, you could be asked, why do you think you are best suited for this role? What do you have to offer my team? Or walk me through your CV. The interesting thing is that it gives you the opportunity to play to your strength and sell yourself; when well-articulated it spotlight your brand and makes you standout in an admirable manner. It also helps the interviewer to kind of gain insight into who you are, and the unique strength that you are bringing to their organisation.

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09_A Common Sense Guide To A Successful Interview

Another question I often get asked is “What are your common-sense guide to acing an interview?” This question does come up in one form or another and I believe it is a legitimate question to ask. The point here is to be ready for your opportunity and take it in a masterful way when your job opportunity shows up. I will argue that a successful interview happens way before the day of the interview. Acing your interview is largely a matter of ‘mental state’, preparation, and positioning. You may be asking “what do you mean by that?”

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08_Keeping a healthy drive for your job search

Humans are wired with the capability to leverage their personal stories on the journey to their best life. This is even more so when it comes to reinventing One of the questions I often get is “how do you handle rejection in your job search?” How do you handle such rejections? Just as it is with anything worth doing, getting a job comes with a few challenges; the process comes with some ups and downs. It can sometimes feel like a roller coaster ride. What looks like a promising interview with high hopes just tend to fizzle out without any feedback or reasons.

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07_Reinvent your career & Business Through Personal Story

Humans are wired with the capability to leverage their personal stories on the journey to their best life. This is even more so when it comes to reinventing your career and business for higher growth. The next phase of your life and career may very well depend on the storyline that is shaping your current perspectives. The question here is “what story is driving your big ask? What story is shaping your vision of your future, your career, or your business?”
Explore and enjoy.

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06_Skilling up for career growth

As we have already established that the best asset you have in your career growth is you and it will serve you well to proactively invest in your skills development. First, it is important to note that the dynamism of the workplace demands that as a knowledge worker you will need to continue to up-skill and right skills so that you can respond to or lead the changing needs. Committing to that process of skilling up systematically with the changing times does increase the shelf-life of your skills and gives you an advantage in the changing terrane of the workplace.

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05_Strategic Systems for your Career Growth

When it comes to growing your career, I would say that having goals is great, but working your system is superior.It is important to note that career development is not linear. Career path tends to go through series of twist and turns. Sometimes things would come up unexpectedly. It is often at these unexpected twists and turns that we land on great career opportunities. This is a major reason why it is a great idea to have in place a strategic system that can help you find your path as you navigate an ever-changing workplace.Now how precisely does this play out? Why do you need to develop a system to develop an exceptional career?So, let's dive in. Enjoy.

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04_Self-Leadership for Career Growth

In this episode we are looking at the subject of Self-Leadership as a major key to effectively develop an outstanding career. Contrary to popular opinion, self-leadership has little to do with being charismatic, rather it has to do with being value driven, being a person of initiative who is constantly ready to take responsibility and is accountable for his or her actions.This quality of self-leadership requires the discipline of acting today in order to harness the future. If you are to continue to be relevant to your organisation, it is important that you develop these three-dimensional attributes of self-leadership. So, let us unpack these attributes of self-leadership so we can advance our career development.

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03_Why Success Factors in Your Career Growth

If you apply the concept of input, process, and outcome in developing a great career, you will realise that to a large extent you can shape your career experience by controlling your input and activities that will help aid the outcome you desire. The point here is that every career has key tasks that can be referred to as input that will aid a successful outcome. So, if you have or can develop great aptitude in such tasks, it gives an indication and a leverage for you to do well in that area or discipline. It is important that you are able to identify and excel in the three critical tasks required for the role and the jobs you want to grow in.

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02_Self Knowledge for Career Growth

If you are going to effectively manage and grow your career there are key principles, you must keep handy like a specialist technician does his/her tools. These principles help you in shaping and tuning your career development from time to time.It is not uncommon to find out that people can get so busy on their job that they do not find the time to work on themselves. Few people make out time for introspection on their career path and where it leads until they are forced to do so. A major key to continuous personal development is to make room regular for introspection to understand yourself as it relates to your career growth. This episode gives you the tools to do just that.