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Succession Planning & Legacy Building: How to Prepare Yourself, Your Leaders & Your Organization for What’s Next

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You’ll retire or get promoted or find a new job. You play a critical role in the success of your team and organization. It’s an inconvenient truth that you won’t always be around. One day, in the near or distant future, you will move on.

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How to Project Manage Your Career

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PM skills are useful in managing finances, organizing family vacations, homemaking, planning for retirement and more. The fun thing about project management is that it can be applied to so many different areas of life! Developing PM expertise can truly enhance your life as well as your career.

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What Does It Really Mean to Be Proactive at Work?

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It’s like waiting to put your seat belt on until you see an accident about to happen or waiting until the day you retire to start saving for retirement. Reactive people only take action when it’s absolutely required—when the consequences of inaction are pressing down upon them. It just doesn’t work.

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Do I Really Need a Professional Development Plan?

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The only “exception” to my rule is for people who are a year or two from retirement. For all of these reasons, I believe a Professional Development Plan is an essential career tool for everyone. In such cases, I recommend that you create a personal development plan. goals and the activities needed to achieve them.

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How To Bring More Love Into Your Work

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It’s just a job, it pays the bills, we’re just waiting for retirement… Instead of watching the clock and wishing the hands would move faster, why not take a moment to really appreciate what you have? Focus on Gratitude. Finally, put your attention on everything that you’re grateful for. Many of us take work for granted.

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Career Lessons From My Dad

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My father retired as a Lieutenant Colonel after 20 years of active duty. After that, he spent 18 years as a commercial airline pilot and retired as a Boeing 737 Captain. So you can imagine that retirement created a little bit of a stir for my father. And ya know what? That was only the beginning of his career.

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5 Sure-Fire Ways to End Up With a Career You Hate

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Maybe your awful boss will retire and you’ll be promoted and the company will be purchased by Google. If you’re in a career that’s making you miserable, it’s probably safe to say that things can’t change enough to make it worthwhile staying. Maybe they can. But I like to encourage a proactive mindset.

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