Host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli is talking about the value of upskilling and reskilling in your career. Whether you're happy where you are or looking for a new career, it's important to constantly evolve with the world!
Episode Highlights:
- The world is in a constant state of shifting so we must stay in a constant state of preparation and learning
- Upskilling is all about enhancing your current skills while reskilling is about gaining new skills
- There are many different methods and strategies to both upskill and reskill your soft skills and hard skills
- Upskilling and reskilling don't necessarily mean just working on your technology skills
- Soft skills are just as important as hard skills when it comes to learning and growing
- Show some initiative by asking for more responsibility which will allow you to learn new leadership from different people
- Leadership is about influencing and helping a team move towards a goal even if you don't have a management position
- Participate in cross-training opportunities with peers or mentors because everyone knows something that you don't
- Developing emotional intelligence increases your ability to lead others through their own emotional awareness
- Emotional intelligence is something that you can improve and increase through consistent work
- Improved resilience and stress-tolerance management allow you to recognize what changes need to be made to avoid burnout
- Hard skills are the technical skills that help you shift with the job and industry
- Your formal education will never give you every single skill that you will need for a job as it changes
- Stay involved in your industry and the ones that are closely connected to it
- There are plenty of low-cost/free training and educational opportunities to accomplish your learning goals
- Up to 80% of jobs come from non-published sources, so dedicate some time to networking
- If you're looking for a completely different path, then you might want to look at vocational training or formal education
- Use your growing portfolio of skills to create a side hustle or work on a passion project
3 Key Points:
- Whether you're feeling stuck or you are completely happy where you are, upskilling and reskilling are highly valuable.
- Emotional intelligence consists of being aware of your own emotional state and the emotional states of others and being able to navigate that for both of you.
- In ten years, up to eighty-five percent of jobs that will exist have not been invented yet. That's why you must look at learning as a lifelong process or you'll get left behind.
Tweetable Quotes:
- "Up to eighty-five percent of jobs that will exist just ten years from now haven't even been invented yet." - Sheila Boysen-Rotelli
- "Upskilling is really about facilitating enhancements to current skills that you have, building on them, expanding on them." - Sheila Boysen-Rotelli
- "It's really all about you taking ownership of your professional growth and development." - Sheila Boysen-Rotelli
