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1/ A thread on career growth
Takeaways
Skill alone doesn’t matter. If no one but yourself knows about your skills, you won’t get any opportunities.
What you want is to:
1. Maximize Available Opportunities
2. Maximize Sponsors https://twitter.com/dschenkelman/status/1298294245606993922
TakeawaysSkill alone doesn’t matter. If no one but yourself knows about your skills, you won’t get any opportunities.
What you want is to:
1. Maximize Available Opportunities
2. Maximize Sponsors https://twitter.com/dschenkelman/status/1298294245606993922
2/ 
Introducing some concepts
- Growth: access to more challenging and/or new opportunities. Growth is multidimensional.
- Opportunity: a possibility for improving and/or displaying your skills. They might be accompanied by financial rewards, recognition, etc.
Introducing some concepts- Growth: access to more challenging and/or new opportunities. Growth is multidimensional.
- Opportunity: a possibility for improving and/or displaying your skills. They might be accompanied by financial rewards, recognition, etc.
3/ - Skills: what you can do, including knowledge required to do it
- Sponsors: People that are aware of available opportunities and can grant them to you.
And relevant questions
- Who are you displaying your skills to?
- Who gets you access to opportunities?
- Sponsors: People that are aware of available opportunities and can grant them to you.
And relevant questions- Who are you displaying your skills to?
- Who gets you access to opportunities?
4/ ♼ Applying systems thinking
- Your opportunities increase as new opportunities are granted to you. This rate depends on your sponsors.
- Your skills improve depending on how fast you learn from your opportunities.
- Your opportunities increase as new opportunities are granted to you. This rate depends on your sponsors.
- Your skills improve depending on how fast you learn from your opportunities.
5/ - You get more sponsors the more people have a positive perception of your skills. These displays depend on your skills, e.g.: when you are given the opportunity to present you are displaying your presentation skills. If you are good at presenting, sponsors will perceive that.
6/ 
How do you get the right sponsors?
Identify them. Consider the informal organization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_organization
@Lethain has a great post on staying aligned with sponsors https://staffeng.com/guides/staying-aligned-with-authority
Avoid biased sponsors. @lara_hogan has a post on this https://larahogan.me/blog/what-sponsorship-looks-like/
How do you get the right sponsors?Identify them. Consider the informal organization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_organization
@Lethain has a great post on staying aligned with sponsors https://staffeng.com/guides/staying-aligned-with-authority
Avoid biased sponsors. @lara_hogan has a post on this https://larahogan.me/blog/what-sponsorship-looks-like/
7/ 
How do you make your skills and work visible to sponsors?
1. Generate content: internal blog posts, brown bags, etc.
2. Ask for 1:1s
3. Share your accomplishments @b0rk has a great post on that https://jvns.ca/blog/brag-documents/
How do you make your skills and work visible to sponsors?1. Generate content: internal blog posts, brown bags, etc.
2. Ask for 1:1s
3. Share your accomplishments @b0rk has a great post on that https://jvns.ca/blog/brag-documents/
8/ Generate self-awareness.
Instead of asking someone “can you recommend me for X job?” ask “what skills do I need to improve on to be ready to do job X?“. The latter shows you are open to advice.
@skamille has a great post on this https://medium.com/@skamille/debug-your-career-ask-for-advice-f0124c15837d
Instead of asking someone “can you recommend me for X job?” ask “what skills do I need to improve on to be ready to do job X?“. The latter shows you are open to advice.
@skamille has a great post on this https://medium.com/@skamille/debug-your-career-ask-for-advice-f0124c15837d
9/ If you've read this far, great 
You'll probably find the full blog post valuable: https://yenkel.dev/posts/how-to-achieve-career-growth-opportunities-skills-sponsors
You'll probably find the full blog post valuable: https://yenkel.dev/posts/how-to-achieve-career-growth-opportunities-skills-sponsors
