Grace Lordan is a behavioral scientist and the Founding Director of The Inclusion Initiative at the London School of Economics. She imparted lessons on how to get your career moving forward in a Financial Times article. Please check out the article to hear more from her perceptive on her own career path in addition to the seven tips noted below.
Here are the seven career-building activities she recommends:
- Set a ‘big thinking’ goal -
Don’t fall into the trap of only working towards your next promotion. Set a big thinking goal that you plan to realize over the medium term: the perfect cure for myopia. - Make a 90-minute weekly
commitment -
Over the medium term this is long enough to build a new skill or participate in networking events. Steal this time away from time sinkers and grow. - Circumvent planning fallacy -
Scale up the timings on your to-do list by 1.5 to avoid failure and tardiness. - Quieten anticipatory loss
aversion -
Stop focusing on “success” versus “failure”. Focus on your own decision making, which you can control. If you never shoot for a goal you cannot score. - Create a diverse personal boardroom -
The easiest way to avoid confirmation bias, grow quickly and identify new opportunities is to seek regular feedback with people with diverse life experiences. - You are not in the spotlight as often
as you think -
Quieten imposter syndrome and grab opportunities safe in the knowledge that if you fluff up no one is likely watching. - Your colleagues are busy -
Don’t assume the people around notice your progress. Join the dots to ensure your value add is noticed and rewarded.
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