50waystobecomemoreprofessionallyexcellent 150519155104-lva1-app6892
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50 Ways to Become
More Professionally Excellent
May 19, 2015 || @UChicagoAlumni Webinar || #ProfessionalExcellence @LeslieBradshaw is the Managing Partner @madebymany and AB ’04 PBK @UChicago
Professional Excellence newsletter: http://tinyletter.com/lesliebradshaw Radical Collaboration newsletter: http://tinyletter.com/sync
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Why Professional Excellence Matters Improve Your EQ: 1 - 5 Drive Results: 6 - 10 Master Your Craft: 11 - 15 Mentor / Sponsor / Role Model: 16 - 19 Pay it Forward: 20 - 23 Self Reliance: 24 - 27 Do the Right Thing: 28 - 36 Radical Collaboration: 37 - 41 Miscellaneous: 42 - 50 Closing Thoughts
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why professional
excellencematters
The further along you get in your career,the more your reputation and your output matter more than your resume. So why not be known for being excellent and delivering excellence?
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improve your EQ
1.
Resource: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/education/edlife/how-to-be-emotionally-intelligent.html by Daniel Coleman
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Have self-awareness, which requires realistic self-confidence and emotional insight.
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Employ self-management, which requires resilience, emotional balance, and self-motivation.
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Have empathy, which requires cognitive and emotional empathy + good listening.
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Embody good relationship skills, which requires compelling communication and team playing.
Make people feel relaxed when working with you;
one sign is that they laugh easily around you.
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make every [ ]results-driving
Resource: http://tinyletter.com/LeslieBradshaw/letters/professional-excellence-your-first-mission-should-you-decide-to-accept-it
meeting
conversationevent attendance
interruption
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State the goal of the encounter; get buy-in, write it out.
Return to the goal at the end,
ensure it was reached.
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Don’t bring your phone. Be present.
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Take impeccable notes.
Consider using pen and paper.
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Return to your notes; reflect on and organize them.
Take and assign actions from them.
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master your craft
Resource: https://medium.com/thelist/a-survival-guide-for-the-millennial-entrepreneur-ddd42a90119f
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Be the best at something.
Cultivate the natural talents for which you are also passionate
(because not everything you’regood at doing do you want to do).
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Craft mastery requires a high level ofdiscipline, commitment, and focus.
And you cannot attain or sustain it
by cutting corners.
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Continuously seek the resourcesyou need to learn more, be better,
and advance.
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“First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius.
Second, surround yourself with partners who
are better than you are.
Third, leave them to go get on with it.” —David Ogilvy
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have at least one good: -mentor-sponsor
-role model
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Find a mentor: Someone in or around your field
with at least one decade more experience than you.Usually external to your core job.
Make your meetings actionable, with homework!
Offer up a “reverse mentor” relationship.
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Sponsor: - Employed at your core job
- Is at least two notches above you on the org chart- Takes an active, deliberate role in
advancing you + your career
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Role model: If there was a poster for professional rock stars,
you would hang this person’s on your wall.You look up to their achievements, the life they
lead, the character they have, and wantto emulate them in your own life.
(e.g., Sheryl Sandberg, Warren Buffet, etc.)
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create a virtuous cycle of paying it forward
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Bonus move: - Be someone’s mentor - Be someone’s sponsor
and if you are lucky enough… - Be someone’s role model
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"We make a living by what we get,but we make a life by what we give."
—Winston Churchill
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You master the art of the ask by leading first with the act of the give.
Before you ask for something, you have
to start by giving. A lot.
But do so in small, manageable, and genuine batches.
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stop relying on others to remind or prod you
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“The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close.
In its place we are entering a period of consequences.”
—Winston Churchill
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Plan the work, work the plan.
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For Pete’s sake, take notes!
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"The time is always right to do right."
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—Olivia Pope Scandal
Season 4, Episode 19
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Ruthlessly seek truth and relentlessly ask for honest feedback.
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Ruthlessly speak truth and relentlessly give honest feedback.
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Learn to deliver a sincere apology.And say it when it’s warranted.
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Treat everyone you encounter with dignity, respect, and kindness.
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Forgive.
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Take the time to thank people, guide people, help people.
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Remember:Your character is what you do
when no one is watching.
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Make and execute the hard and right decisions to drive the business forward.
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the future belongs to those who partner best
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“Stop, collaborate, and listen.” —Vanilla Ice
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Put down the keyboard, pick up the phone.
Shift from digital to physical.
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“Politic around the ‘hood like you are running for mayor.”
—50 Cent
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Be dependable.
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9 more ways…
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Your personal brand needs investment: define it, refine it, reboot it, expand it.
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Use your words to improve others;strengthen them, encourage them, comfort them.
1 Corinthians 14
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“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson
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"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most
intelligent that survives.
It is the one that is most adaptable to change."
—Charles Darwin
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Remove the emotion, include the business case.
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"My challenge to you is simply this: Observe your environment. At work. At home. At
school. And if you don’t see any diversity, work to change it."—Mellody Hobson
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Follow through.
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Believe in things, entities, and ideals higher than yourself and monetary gain.
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Mind your manners!
"Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that
awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use."
—Emily Post
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closing thoughts
In sum: good manners, decisiveness, reliability, mastery.
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