Career Transitions & Performance Measurements: Into The Workplace

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AI is already disrupting how we work. It will increase our productivity and change how we achieve our goals and responsibilities in profound ways. It is the latest evolution of the skills needed in the AI economy. Listen to hear how you can take advantage of this latest shift.

Strategic thinking, or being strategic, is often tossed around as a needed approach in the workplace. But what does it actually mean? Being strategic involves achieving short-term goals while keeping an eye on the future for potential opportunities or unforeseen consequences. 

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In this episode, Leslie Ferry and Pamela Coleman-Davis discuss the 3rd of 5 effective leadership attributes: Over-Communicates to Avoid Ambiguity.

In the 5th and final episode, Leslie Ferry and Pamela Coleman-Davis discuss the leadership attribute: Empowers Others Through Continuous Learning.

In their wrap-up of the series, they share how these five attributes contribute to a leader's trustworthiness.

In this episode, Leslie Ferry and Pamela Coleman-Davis discuss the 4th of 5 effective leadership attributes: Proactively Creates Culture.

In this episode, Leslie Ferry and Pamela Coleman-Davis discuss the 2nd of 5 effective leadership attributes:  Activates System 2 Critical Thinking for Problem-Solving.

In this year-end podcast series,  Pamela Coleman-Davis, a Certified Career Coach and The Modern Leadership Design program developer, joins Leslie Ferry. And they explore 5 attributes of effective leadership.

In this first episode, they start by defining the broader definition of leadership, which encompasses those who want to take ownership of their career, so a self-leader, to those who wish to demonstrate leadership before getting the title. 

They then move into the first attribute – Influences Others to Gain Cooperation.

For each attribute, Pam explains

• What each means
• Why it is important
• Actions to take to strengthen them
• And knowing if you are doing it correctly

 The other attributes will follow in separate episodes and include:

• Activates System 2 Critical Thinking for Problem-Solving
• Over-Communicates to Avoid Ambiguity
• Proactively Creates Culture
• Empowers Other Through Continuous Learning

This Bright & Wize episode discusses how job performance measurements change when individuals start to manage others, whether as a team lead or direct report manager.

The final topic of the Career Transitions and Performance Measurement series is leading others. It starts with two questions. Are you a manager or leader? How do you know? Listen to find out how to recognize your movement into the next career stage.

This episode series is the first of several year-end Bright & Wize weekly series. Here, Brize CEO & Bright & Wize host Leslie Ferry dives into performance measurement in the workplace. The reason she wanted to explore this topic is because once stated and understood, the performance measurement seems logical; some might even think, duh. But, the funny thing is they appear more subconscious and are not often explicitly stated in these ways, so she thought she’d explicitly say them.

This first episode looks at the transition from academia, where knowing the answer was the measure of good performance, into the workplace, where the measure of our performance differs.