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Switching Sides: Career Change Steps to Consider Before Your Big Move

HR Digest

Handling a career is overwhelming on its own but pairing it with a career change tips the balance into new, unexplored territories that are downright terrifying. But change is necessary sometimes, whether you’re burnt out by your current career path or you want to pursue a passion that was left unattended for a long time.

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6 Ways to Take Your Career to the Next Level

Strategy Driven

Perhaps, your pursuit is anchored in the quest for a novel role that offers exposure to stimulating projects, enabling you to apply and demonstrate your skills effectively. The trajectory toward career advancement materializes by implementing tangible measures that align with your unique and subjective understanding of success.

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Create Commitment: 12 Habits to Build Agreement and Accountability

Let's Grow Leaders

You can help your team avoid endless discussions, analysis paralysis, and chokepoints by moving conversations to intentions to specific actions. The project may require a team. That new shiny assignment may be great for your career – and so is delivering the results you’ve promised.

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Foxes And Hedgehogs: Which One Are You?

Lead Change Blog

For more than a decade, I leaned into being a leadership hedgehog until the promise of a new career attracted my attention, only to lead to several years of going down rabbit holes and chasing dead ends. I’d hear my coaching peers share what they were working on, and my ego would question why I wasn’t going after the same types of projects.

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Upskilling: 3 Key Tips for Serious Executives

Strategy Driven

Project-Based Learning In the real world, theory only gets you so far. Getting hands-on with projects is really the secret to turning textbook smarts into street smarts so that your learning experience is dynamic and effective. Using data insights to better direct campaigns and showing a real impact on that return on investment (ROI).

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When Confidence Helps Project Managers — and When It Gets Them into Trouble

Harvard Business Review

There’s a popular fallacy that encourages big-project managers to forge ahead as quickly as they can, on the basis that the payoffs will likely be bigger than they imagine.

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Do Tech Spin-Outs Go International Faster?

The Horizons Tracker

.” Spinning out The researchers analyzed over 160 academic spin-outs over an 18-year period, with their research beginning with a survey of founders to understand how their careers had evolved. This is due in large part to the international nature of many research projects in academia.

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