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Each day during the Olympics, I’ll be posting a nugget relating a value of sportsmanship and the Olympics to your professional life.
Today’s Olympic Nugget: Go for the A Standard in your field.
To make it to the Olympics in your event, you must have the A Standard. It’s a minimum performance level (normally a score or a time) that an athlete must achieve in order to make it to the Olympics. Without it, an athlete can place at the Olympic Trials but not secure a spot on the team because he or she did not achieve the A Standard.
Think about the Olympics of your career. It could be a specific position at a certain company, a salary goal, a revenue goal for your business, the right balance between work and life, etc.
What is the A Standard for your professional Olympics? That is, what do you have to strive to achieve to make sure you are positioned to make it to the pinnacle? Perhaps the A Standard is a certification or set of skills you need to earn or master, a personal relationship with a key decision maker, a certain amount of experience in a position of leadership, or a specific set of accomplishments credited to your hard work. Whatever the A Standard is for you, it is critical that you have a long-term plan to achieve it so that when your professional Olympic Trials come, you have everything you need to make your dreams a reality.
What’s your A Standard? Do you already have it? If not, what are your plans to earn it?
Cecilia is a professional in the non-profit world that makes professional development part of her daily routine, just like brushing teeth, preparing a meal, or walking the dog. She knows what she wants out of her career and takes small steps daily to realize her goals. Follow Cecilia and learn how to see professional development as an ongoing process that you can work on a few minutes every day so you can be ready for desired opportunities at a moment’s notice. Updating your resume is not a chore with the Resume Reviver!
