TO BUILD A CAREER, WE NEED MORE THAN SMARTS AND HARD WORK TO SUCCEED.
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WHY READ THIS BOOK?
Academic excellence is not a strong predictor of career success, regardless of the field. Research shows that the correlation between grades and job performance is modest in the first year after college and trivial within a handful of years.
This isn’t surprising. Academic grades rarely assess qualities like teamwork skills, or social and emotional intelligence, which are the skills that will build thriving careers.
Because whether we work in a large commercial organisation or we’re in the public or not-for-profit sectors, we’re almost definitely going to have to work with other people.
We want to be good team players, but we need to develop self-awareness.
We want to build on our strengths and address our shortcomings, but we need to learn how to receive feedback and act on it.
We want to develop into effective leaders, but we need to learn how to have difficult conversations.
We want to find a role where we can thrive, but we need to learn how to approach those big career decisions.
We hope we’ll be better able to manage these challenges when we’ve been round the block a few times. But we don’t have to wait to learn. We can start working on these skills straightaway.
My book, You’ve Got This! – Vital Career Skills That No One Will Teach You, is the companion you want from your first day in a new job through to deciding whether you should stay where you are, work for promotion or leave to find a role elsewhere.
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KNOW YOURSELF BETTER
THINK AGAIN QUIZ
Adam Grant explains that we often think like preachers, prosecutors, politicians, and scientists. Psychologists find that we enter preacher mode when we're defending a sacred value, prosecutor mode when we're trying to win an argument, politician mode when we're campaigning for the approval of an audience, and scientist mode when we're searching for the truth. These mental modes affect our will to question our own opinions and our skill to open other people's minds.
GRIT SCALE QUIZ
Why do some people succeed, and others fail? Angela Duckworth, who wrote the best-selling book, Grit, has found that grit—a combination of passion and perseverance for a singularly important goal—is the hallmark of high achievers in every domain. She’s also found scientific evidence that grit can grow.
GIVE AND TAKE QUIZ
Adam Grant is a top-rated professor at Wharton Business School. His book, Give and Take, explains that at work, most people operate as either takers, matchers, or givers. Whereas takers strive to get as much as possible from others and matchers aim to trade evenly, givers are the rare breed of people who contribute to others without expecting anything in return. Grant shows that these styles have a surprising impact on success.
FOUR TENDENCIES QUIZ
Gretchen Rubin, the New York Times best-selling author, realised that by asking the suspiciously simple question “How do I respond to expectations?” we gain explosive self-knowledge. Rubin discovered that people fit into Four Tendencies: Upholders, Questioners, Obligers, and Rebels. Our Tendency shapes every aspect of our behavior, so understanding this framework lets us make better decisions, meet deadlines, suffer less stress and burnout, and engage more effectively. The Four Tendencies explain why we act and why we don’t act.
MEET THE AUTHOR, LISA McNULTY
WHY I WROTE THIS BOOK
I spent almost 30 years with one of the world’s largest global advisory firms. As a Partner and Vice Chair, it was a challenging and rewarding role for many reasons – but my favourite part of the job was helping other colleagues navigate the challenges that shape a career so they could thrive.
As well as leading teams and advising clients, I also served on the firm’s partnership admissions committee. Across these roles, I saw that working hard and honing technical expertise were not enough to succeed.
So, I designed and delivered workshops to those colleagues who wanted to progress to senior levels within the firm. As well as receiving feedback which evidenced the value these colleagues drew from the workshops, other senior leaders confirmed they could see a change in approach and attitude among those cohorts. Teaching our colleagues skills such as how to receive feedback and how to have difficult conversations was making a positive difference.
You’ve Got This! takes the content from those workshops and brings in real-life stories and research from leading business schools to offer practical advice. To ensure the book is useful to those working in different fields, I drew on the perspectives of dozens of readers who were in the first 15 years of their career. To ensure the book is useful to those working in different fields, I drew on the perspectives of dozens of readers who were in the first 15 years of their career. Their roles spanned many disparate sectors from public sector administration, education and policing through to corporates, professional services firms and not-for-profit organisations. Their input confirmed that the book addresses common issues faced by all of us as we embark upon and build our career.
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