A Holistic Approach to Your Career is for those recently entering the corporate environment, providing guidance that they may not get in the classroom or at home.
For those that need guidance and advice on how to advance their careers and move on after career failure or dealing with a bad, ineffective manager.
Millions of employees are silently suffering through the abuse of a terrible manager or depressed about their inability to advance their careers.
Many employees new to the corporate environment lack direction, especially those young people straight out of college or university. As a result, they struggle when having to navigate their work environment. The informal education of navigating the corporate environment happens on the job by trial and error.
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The first thing most people think about when they hear the word ‘holistic’ is a form of holistic medicine, which is the healing that considers the entire person (body, mind, spirit, and emotions) not just separate body parts. A holistic approach means thinking about something in its entirety. Understanding that the whole comprises interdependent parts that you must integrate for a successful outcome.
The holistic concept can also apply to your career, as upward mobility in any organization requires that you be well-rounded. The progression of your career and candidacy for job promotions require that you take a holistic approach. What does it mean to take a holistic approach to your career?
Taking a holistic approach to your career means taking a comprehensive perspective that considers every aspect of your work environment, which can lead to optimal career success and satisfaction. It requires that you consider everything from educational requirements to how you carry yourself at work. Ensuring that you strike a proper balance of the various aspects that make up the work environment.
More than a degree
Higher education will get you hired, but once you are on the job, you must prove and distinguish yourself from the competition. Demonstrating that you can contribute to the company’s bottom line.
Succeeding in business requires a complete package that takes more than just a degree. Your experiences, skills, and abilities need to be varied and balanced; and determining which is more beneficial to a successful career, book smarts or street smarts, is exceptionally difficult, because it depends on the person and the circumstances.
You may know people who are book smart but do not have one ounce of common sense and are clueless about how to survive in the actual world. Others have the street smarts but do not know how to transfer or use those skills outside of their own environment. Those with a combination of education, job experience, and street smarts, with experience as the key ingredient, are the ones who are likely to be most successful.
Unfortunately, many corporations do not sufficiently value institutional knowledge and work experience when making career decisions. As a result, even if an employee has an excellent track record and has done exceptionally well in their job evaluations, when competing for a promotion or position with an MBA graduate, the credentials and luster of an MBA from a top business school will most likely win out.
A master’s degree from any university is an excellent credential to have and, all things being equal, may give you the edge you need to prevail when competing for a job or promotion. So, depending on your industry and if you have the time, stamina, energy, and willingness, get that master’s degree, even if it is part time, so that the next time education is the tiebreaker, you are the one with the edge to prevail.
Interpersonal skills
A successful career requires that you complement that formal education with informal education. You need to gain all the essential abilities and skills to deal with the growing demands of the personal and professional spheres. Besides your education and technical hands-on skills, you must develop and hone your interpersonal skills, also referred to as soft skills.
You need to understand and abide by those unwritten and unspoken rules and regulations that are part of your work environment and which are required in order to get ahead. The informal education of navigating your work environment happens on the job by trial and error.
You may have excelled in your educational pursuits and have excellent technological skills, knowledge, and other skills that specifically enable you to complete work-related tasks. But how good are your interpersonal skills? Are you self-confident? How are your communication, listening and networking skills?
Most of us focus and put a lot of emphasis on formal education and developing hard skills, but neglect to develop our interpersonal skills. To successfully use the technical knowledge and skill set you have gained, master those interpersonal skills that allow you to interact with others.
Interpersonal skills are personal attributes that allow you to relate to others. Applying these skills will help you build stronger relationships, work more productively, and maximize your career prospects. You cannot evaluate the value of interpersonal skills on any assessment metric, but they can be evaluated by others through your ability to maintain a balanced approach in your day-to-day handling of your job. Having a balanced approach to your work environment means that you are well-rounded and possess a perfect blend of technical and interpersonal skills.
While some people have better interpersonal skills than others, they are not innate, and anyone can learn the skill. You can enhance your interpersonal skills by first identifying which of those skills you are lacking and taking some training courses. You can ask your boss or a mentor to help you identify the skill gap.
You can develop soft skills in the same way you develop any other skill you practice. You can also seek opportunities to practice each individual skill in a low risk setting until you feel confident in your ability. For example, you don’t have to be born a networker or a brilliant speaker. You can learn and build these skills throughout your career.
A productive and healthy work environment depends on its employees to have a blend of technical and interpersonal skills. The workplace is not a social club, but it is an interpersonal space that requires the building and fostering of relationships, perspectives and ideas exchanged, and conflicts resolved.
Interpersonal skills are on balance with professionalism. In its simplest terms, professiona...
