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Did you know that a Competency Gap can affect your Career prospects?

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Your competency and skills are essential for career progression

 

In my Kindle book Get Noticed! 15 Insider Tips  guaranteed to improve your Executive Presence, Tip Number 11 talks about creating a Professional Development Plan.

Now everyone knows about personal development plans and self-improvement plans but what about professional development?

Advancements in technology, techniques, methodology and information take place rapidly. Skills or knowledge that you learned earlier put you in danger of being made redundant unless you keep upgrading your skills and enhancing your knowledge.

This does not mean signing up for all the training programs your organization offers or appearing in advertisements whether you read them in the newspapers or receive email alerts.

It also doesn’t mean signing up for every free webinar or Group coaching program offer that you receive by email.

 

It means recognizing a potential competency gap

Followed by upgrading existing skill sets or learning new skills to keep up with the world and your career goals.

Let me give you my own example. Last year, I started to notice something called an Infograph appearing on different blogs and websites. Then top leading marketing firms started giving free advice on how to create Infographs. A few weeks after I noticed the trend, I was invited to download some in an Infographic Giveaway!

The infographic business was a big thing and I needed to either learn how to create my own or hire someone. The hiring part meant shelling out USD 100 to USD 400 for each infographic.

So, I followed the techniques given in the free articles on online software and finally decided to give it a rest. It was quite challenging. My time was better spent in my coaching service most important of which was client service delivery.

I put it on my professional development list for 2014 when I would go looking for some easy software.

It must have been a case of Law of Attraction in full swing because my friend and go to person for technology, John Banks created a 30 Minute Infographic course. It included templates, icons and video instructions.

Sadly, this isn’t available to the public. A couple of black hat folks stole the content and started selling it on their own. (That will be a topic for a future post)

The best part about this course was that I didn’t need any fancy software or online activity. All I needed was the Power Point program in my computer and a bit of creativity.

Having nothing to lose and taking Dutch courage, I took up the course creating the below infographic in less than 30 minutes! I was keen to learn as I went along and used my previously created graphics.

It’s a first attempt and I am pleased to say that I covered a professional development competency gap. One that for me is critical given the change in technology and content management.

 

Stress Resilience infographic

 

Role of Motivation in closing Professional Skill Gaps

 

Once you know your career goal, which should be SMART, compare your present skills and experience to that which is required for successful goal achievement.

Honestly look at your present situation and determine if there are gaps in what you need to be able to do and what you are able to do.  In other words, identify the skill gaps requiring to be covered by further professional development. I did.

I asked John later as to what inspired him to create this Infographic product. To quote him ad verbatim

“I created this Infographic course because the old saying a picture is worth a thousand words is true. I found people on the Internet especially through my social media channels are much more responsive to visual things. I have always been into graphics and Infographics but they are VERY expensive to get made.

I made this course so others can create their own and not have to fork out hundreds of dollars for one! I have also broken down the technical boundaries with this course, anyone can make these!”

 

This was how I enhanced my own professional development. I felt I needed to know how to create infographs (which are very popular on Pinterest) whether or not I created them.

Then later in 2017, video became the rage. I took my own video making skills to the next level and invested in my professional and marketing skill development.

Here’s a video that I created for Get Noticed.

 

 

Knowledge is empowerment. So now I have a question for you.

Do you regularly do you check to see if you have to update or refresh skills? Or learn new ones to stay on top of your game?

I’d love to read your observations in the comments box below! 

This post was originally published in February 2014 and has now been updated for fresh information.
Link for Get Noticed: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XHL2Z66

Remember to download your Executive Presence Checklist within the Kindle book – with my compliments.

 

Written By: Vatsala Shukla

2 Responses to “Did you know that a Competency Gap can affect your Career prospects?”

  1. Jayashree says:

    Quite an informative post Vatsala.

    • Karmic Ally says:

      Welcome to the Karmic Ally Coaching Experience Blog, Jayashree. I’m glad you found the post informative. Looking forward to seeing you here again. 🙂

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