subject: Career and Personal Development Tips in Management [print this page] Career and Personal Development Tips in Management
As they say, life is constant movement and development. Once having acquired a profession, one should never stop learning and extend his/her horizon. Any step in the process of self-development should improve person's knowledge of the profession and world. This rule can be applied to any profession but this article focuses on the sphere of management. Study the following tips carefully to know how to improve career prospects through self-development.
Essential characteristics
One should bear in mind that there are a lot of ways for self-development. To achieve great success in career a person should be:
Driven;
Determined;
Ambitious;
Assertive;
Curious and interested in the progress.
If a person possesses these features, he/she will inevitably embark on success. However, one should not get distressed if he/she is not a very pushy person. These features are easy to develop.
Ways of personal development
Nothing comes without efforts; no pain no gain, as the proverb says. Therefore, one should consider the following variant of personal development:
First of all, one should never abandon learning. It does not mean that one should be a student during the whole life. But attending various courses, programmes, seminars increases person's potential for self-development.
Secondly, one should read a lot of books. It does not presuppose any kinds of detectives or romance. The literature a student reads should be qualitative and concern the field he/she works in. Thus, books and journal articles of some acknowledged marketing analysts perfectly fits the bill.
One more option is to find a professional coach to guide through self-developmental process. It should be a very experienced specialist that could provide help and teach some career improvement techniques.
And finally, there are a lot of visual aids, such as DVDs with step-by-step procedure for self-development. One can always resort to such kind of help as it is accessible and not very expensive.
