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A more diverse workforce has two significant implications for your career. The first is the increasing expectation and need for individuals to take active ownership of their career development. Organizations used to do a lot of the hard work for us, mapping out things like career paths and promotion plans. Organizations once told us what to do and

‘Can you tell me when you think I’m at my best?’

volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous

One tip for this exercise is to ban the use of ‘diminishing words’, such as ‘I’m quite good’, or ‘I think I’m good at’ or ‘Other people tell me I’m good at’. The first round might feel awkward, but by the third or fourth go everyone has grown comfortable with it. We often end the exercise with everyone sharing their super strength with the group. I

Very few of us have jobs where we do the same thing day in, day out.

Work is now more project based and job specifications become out of date almost the moment we start a new job, as we adapt to meet the needs of our organizations.

No one cares about your career as much as you do.

This is an exercise we sometimes run in workshops and works well with a group of six or more people. Everyone gets on their feet and finds a partner. You share a strength and talk about one way you use it in your job today and one idea for how you can use it more. The other person then reciprocates. Then you move on to a new partner and repeat the

recommend spending roughly 80 per cent of your time making your strengths stronger, and 20 per cent of your time improving specific weaknesses that are holding