UrStoria - Episode 11 - Professional Development: Reinvention or Atrophy - Your Choice
Urstoria - It's Your Story - Tell it!
Release Date: 02/11/2019
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Urstoria - It's Your Story - Tell it!
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UrStoria - Episode 11 - Professional Development: Reinvention or Atrophy - Your Choice
Urstoria - It's Your Story - Tell it!
In this episode, the choice is simple, we can reinvent or we can atrophy…which do you choose? Dean McAlister discusses why, if Professional Development is so important and can be linked to higher profit margins, does it get swept under the rug for more pressing priorities? We speak about looking at leadership and development with the lens of “who” we want to be and not “what” we want to be.
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Urstoria - It's Your Story - Tell it!
We spend a lot of energy trying to avoid it, prevent it, but, despite our best intentions - we are confronted with failure. What do you do next? What is your attitude toward failure? This episode we explore Failure and learn to look forward to the learnings gained from failure.
info_outlineIn this episode, the choice is simple, we can reinvent or we can atrophy…which do you choose? Dean McAlister and I discuss why, if Professional Development is so important and can be linked to higher profit margins, does it get swept under the rug for more pressing priorities? What do organizations stand to lose if they do this? How do we take control and do what is best for us? We speak about looking at development with the lens of “who” we want to be and not “what” we want to be.
It’s your story - tell it! For show notes and references go to www.urstoria.com.
References mentioned in this episode:
Start with Why by Simon Sinek
4 Disciplines of Execution by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey & Jim Huling
Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch by Curt W. Coffman & Kathie Sorensen, Phd
Reagan: An American Journey by Bob Spitz
Dean McAlister LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dean-mcalister-231b2414