From the course: Discovering Your Strengths
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Investing in yourself
- To increase your value per hour and be more successful in your career, how much time are you willing to invest in improving your strengths? Specifically, how much time outside of your normal work hours? It's common for people to feel that they should only work the hours during time for which they're being paid. While it's certainly important to do your job and get paid a fair wage, you also want to invest in your career by regularly improving your skills outside of your day-to-day job responsibilities. Investing time like this will grow your strengths which will increase your value per hour and your job security. You can make this investment in yourself by following a simple four-step process. The first step is to determine the time investment you're willing to make. I recommend at least one hour a week and budget it by scheduling blocks of time in your calendar. Call it your Strength Investment or some other descriptive title. Scheduling time in advance in your calendar will make…
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