Tailoring Your Career Quarterly Through Transparent Relationships With Your Manager
In today's fast-paced work environment, career growth isn't something that happens by chance—it requires intention and strategy. One of the most effective ways to ensure you're advancing in the right direction is by regularly tailoring your career goals, aligning them with your evolving aspirations and the needs of your organization. But how do you ensure these goals are clear, achievable, and relevant?
Set Clear Goals
Set goals for team projects and personal growth with a focus on the bigger picture for the quarter and year ahead.
Feedback quarterly will build a quick feedback loop. Prepare the list of your career goals and ask what could be X, Y and Z to achieve them. Keep a bigger picture in your head - where do you want to be by the end of the year, in the next 5 years?
Schedule Regular 1-1 Meetings
Revisit goals, expectations, and progress weekly or bi-weekly for clarity and alignment. Seeking feedback on your performance. This meeting shouldn’t be limited to a sync on all current projects on your plate and their progress: discuss blockers for your career goals, get feedback on your progress, highlight what X, Y, and Z to do, and ask for career guidance!
Give Candour Feedback
Did you have to cut corners by working under pressure? Or they didn’t reply in time? Give them candid feedback and align them with all project problems! Was there a moment when they didn’t give a requirement to unblock the project? Or were you or your team asked to stay long hours by a pressured deadline? Did you need more time to refactor legacy components to make the solution neat and clean? Be ready to give them candid feedback and align them with all project problems!
Keep a Habit of Documenting Your Achievements
Remember to track notes and highlight key points and achievements every Friday, scheduling time in your calendar to ensure you don't overlook them. It’s so easy to forget how many things you’ve done in 2 weeks! Keep Google Docs or any other notes-keeper tool and put the important points and achievements on Friday every week. Block your time in your calendar to make sure you won’t forget. Use this document to ask for feedback and always align exceptions!
Keep and share your notes
Keep track of your syncs, feedback and decisions in documents as well! Transparency is the key to trusted relationships and amazing results of collaboration!
By cultivating open communication and trust with your manager, you can build a stronger professional relationship that benefits both you and your career!
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