In the workplace, soft skills are essential for career advancement. It is easy to determine how to gain the hard skills for career success, hard skills being education, experience and training. Soft skills, however, are more often personal attributes, traits and characteristics that are less likely to be formally taught, though they can be learned. These are essential to accelerate your career success.

By Susan M. Grant As a reader of Positively Successful, you know that your career success relies on you taking charge of your own career.  As the CEO of You, you can glean some lessons from the process of starting and growing a business. Your Business Plan The old adage says if you fail to [...]

Leanna Cruz Editorial Director       You applied for a position at a company looking for an outstanding candidate to help them to advance their mission. You are rewarded with an offer, and accept, promising to share your skills and knowledge for money, for benefits or perhaps for a career. What ever you have decided [...]

Take comfort in knowing that change is constant and that the winners will be those who commit to continuous learning, to an open mind and to adapting by attaining the skills required for the future. Resisting or denying won’t stop anything, but you will run the risk of becoming obsolete. Remain relevant and commit to continued career success.

Global changes dictate that professionals with an eye on top leadership positions in the immediate future must include a global focus. Coming out of this downturn, organizations are turning more of their attention to global growth and expansion.

During times of uncertainty and change your organization needs visionaries and risk takers to remain competitive in the future. Be the leader your organization needs, the catalyst for change that inspires innovation. It is during times like this that leaders distinguish themselves.

Only 11% of mid-level professionals feel confident and well-prepared to handle future challenges and career paths have changed leaving mid-level professionals feeling frustrated from the lack of direction about how to move forward.

This is a great time to get in the driver’s seat of your career development, discover the essentials of career success now and into the future and navigate the maze to a more satisfying career and lifestyle.

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Leanna Cruz – Editorial Director Regardless of the kind of work you do, your workplace has changed radically during the past five years, and will continue to change during the next five years. It may seem that the best thing to do is sit back and wait until things settle before planning your next career [...]

If the right people don’t know about your success stories the rate of acceleration of your career success may be slower than you have patience for. Avoid the frustration and find opportunities to share your success stories.

A survey conducted by the Center for Creative Leadership which looked at executives from Fortune 100 firms whose careers stalled found that failure to redirect efforts from monitoring work to inspiring improvement caused career stagnation. It is the smart manager who assesses current skills against those required for the sought after leadership position, and then puts a professional development plan into action.