Well, it’s Fourth Quarter 2020. Hard to believe, eh? What a roller coaster of a year 2020 has been thus far. And the most pressing question I’m hearing from so many of you is “How will the pandemic impact my professional trajectory?” Especially when you feel as though you’ve been on an extended work-from-home vacation… [Continue Reading]
Q3 One Millimeter Mindset™ Professional Development Blog Posts
Will Yesterday’s Professional Competencies be Enough for What’s Next?
How do yesterday’s professional competencies meet today’s and tomorrow’s client needs? Something shifted during the pandemic. Did you feel it? Because yesterday’s professional competencies are table stakes for meeting today’s and tomorrow’s client needs. Actually, they have been for quite a while. From your perspective, how you learned to do things, yesterday, remains the crux… [Continue Reading]
Are Your Strategic Business Stories too Ambiguous?
What happens when strategic business stories become too ambiguous to everyone, including you? Yesterday, we explored whether your compelling business stories are too specific and tactically focused. Today, let’s explore what happens when your stories get lost in the strategic clouds. When strategic business stories are too ambiguous, decision makers ask: “What do you expect… [Continue Reading]
Are Your Compelling Business Stories too Tactical?
You work hard to create compelling business stories. Yet, after you exhaust yourself preparing and delivering these stories, do you accomplish what you set out to do? Recognize the gap between your own objective for telling compelling business stories. And what clients want to accomplish in hearing those stories. Bridging that gap is the key… [Continue Reading]
Establishing Your Voice on Cross Functional Teams
How do you establish your voice when working with cross functional teams? For some of you, this idea is completely daunting. Why? Because cross functional teams have lots of “those” people on them. You know. Professionals from the “other side” of your organization: the people whose professional behavior intimidates you the most. First, because you… [Continue Reading]
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