The whole notion of what a career is has changed. You are now responsible for managing your career. And the straightest path toward your goal is not always clear. In this course, you'll learn how to take an inventory of your values, interests, skills, and lifestyle aspirations in order to develop your career management skills. You'll also learn strategies for identifying your strengths and dealing with weaknesses. Then you'll learn how to pull it all together and develop a career plan based on your attributes and what you want to achieve. This course also provides tips on how to deal with any weaknesses that are holding you back.

Business acumen is a difficult to define combination of forethought, creativity, and agility that is a key factor in setting successful business professionals apart from their less accomplished peers. But it doesn't just come from experience. It has to be cultivated and nurtured. In this course, you'll learn how developing professional acumen enhances your leadership, communication, and decision-making skills. And further, you'll learn that influences your company's competitive advantage and explore methods for developing an operational perspective to uncover opportunities for change or innovation.

The best leaders have a clear picture of their organizations' people and systems, and what drives them in their chosen career. Effective leaders are also aware of each employee's career plan, their motivations, how they interact with one another, as well as the power dynamics between staff members. In this course, you'll learn about organizational awareness and how it relates to career management. You'll also explore how you can develop organizational awareness when managing your career to advance your professional goals.

Are you happy in your job? Or drifting along without a career plan? Either way, being proactive about where your career is heading is a good start. Exploring your career options is an important part of managing your career. In this course, you'll learn how to develop your career management skills and give your career a boost. You'll get tips on improving career prospects and moving within your current company. You'll learn how to use a promotion plan and explore the best ways to ask for assignments that will move your career forward. And you'll find out how to make a break and move on.

The four stage pivot method will help you prepare for the next step in your career through strategically bridging the gap between where you are and where you want to go.

Many people don't always recognize the growth opportunities they are presented with by getting feedback. This course will explain how to manage the performance appraisal process to your benefit. You'll be given tips for listening to and applying feedback so you can use your formal and informal performance appraisals to your best advantage. It also outlines how to implement the periodic appraisal strategy to move your career forward, and ways to recognize and use constructive criticism for self-development.