Upskilling: Four Simple Steps Toward Upgrading Your Work
Published: Thu, 05/05/22
Upskilling: Four Simple Steps Toward Upgrading Your Work
In a rapidly changing environment, it's no surprise that new "buzzwords" occasionally pop up on your bingo card. One of recent example is upskilling. At first glance, the definition seems obvious, but it means more than you might think—especially after our shared ordeal with the COVID-19 pandemic. These days, we all need to take the time to upskill and refresh our work habits, which the World Economic Forum predicts will raise the global GDP by up to $6.5
trillion by 2030.
Upskilling involves taking your work to the next level, to better fit your job's current and future needs. It's not good enough to just tread water. You must consistently work to advance your career, if only to keep pace with change. The white-collar professional never really stops learning. Here are a few tips to make sure you're advancing as you should.
Over the last twenty years, we have worked with 25,000+ managers from 65+ countries. In addition, more than 2,000 companies have sent their leaders through our leadership development program, Making Managers into Leaders®, including 23 of the Fortune 100 companies.
We wrote books on leadership development, including Enlightened Leadership: Getting to the Heart of Change, and Leadership Made Simple: Practical Solutions to Your Greatest Management Challenges. We have developed a successful process that leads to mindset shifts and actual results quickly and easily. It’s 20% of the long-term development that provides 80% of the results immediately.
Next are a few successes that were the results of these organizations using the Leadership Framework Process and tools to develop their soft skills/leadership abilities:
A commander in the navy achieved the following results:
Became the top-performing ship in the history of the Pacific fleet
Improved retention from 28% to 100%
Returned nearly 20% of its budget to the navy coffers (That’s your taxpayer dollars)
Medical leaders increased the number of organs available for transplant in 15 months, better than the previous decade!
Hospitality leaders found housing for over 250,000 hurricane victims in less than 48 hours.
A prominent computer company saved $9 Million in inventory costs in less than six months.
A project leader avoided $66 million in late fees and penalties on a $100 million project 18 months behind schedule. Instead, they completed it one month ahead of schedule, avoiding all fines.
Our clients accomplished all these results by focusing on the “soft” issues, not the technical ones.
Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2022 Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM MST
