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What Busy Professionals Can Do to Boost Their Career Skills for Post-Pandemic Growth

— Written in partnership with Tina Martin at Ideaspired.com

If you’re a busy professional with little time to spare, these resources below will help you to boost your career skills for post-pandemic growth — all without falling behind on your current duties and responsibilities. In fact, you’ll even learn how to better manage your time and become a more effective and efficient business leader. Read on to get started!

 Learn on the Side

Even as a busy business leader, there are so many convenient ways to further your education and boost your career skills if you’ll be pursuing new job opportunities post-pandemic.

●      Find out which skills will be needed in a post-pandemic world and start mastering them with online classes and tutorials. Some of the best online learning platforms for business professionals include 360 Training, Udemy, Khan Academy, Coursera, and Skillshare.

●      Earn an online degree. For example, you can find flexible bachelor’s or master’s degree programs in K-12 teaching, business management, health leadership, or data analytics.

●      Find and attend a SCORE workshop or webinar. For example, you can learn start, grow or sell your business. Topics range from human resources and customer relations to accounting, marketing, and operations.

●      Apply to Hervé Da Costa’s leadership acceleration program.

 Improve Your Time Management Skills

 Time management is an essential soft skill that all business leaders must possess in order to excel in their careers.

●      Learn how to manage your time, prioritize tasks, and delegate successfully.

●      Use productivity tools and apps such as Airtable, Notion, Front, and Double.

●      Find out what other CEOs are doing to stay focused, motivated, and in control of their time.

●      Practice mindfulness to quiet the mind and boost mental clarity.

Lead More Effectively and Efficiently

These resources will help you to become a more effective and efficient leader.

●      Get the Free Leadership Acceleration Training available from Hervé.

Read 10 business leadership books, including “Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done” by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan.

●      Listen to 10 of the best TED Talks for leaders.

●      Connect with other business professionals using social networking sites such as LinkedIn, GroupMe, and Shapr.

●      Listen to leadership podcasts. Some of the best podcasts for leaders include “Recode Decode” with Kara Swisher, “HBR IdeaCast”, and “No Ego”.

Once you’ve dedicated some time to boosting your career skills and learning how to become a better leader, you’ll be ready to take advantage of emerging business opportunities in industries such as eCommerce and telemedicine. And if you need some guidance or training along the way, don’t hesitate to enlist the help of the professionals at Hervé.

How to Quiet Your Mind and Become Unstoppable

How to Quiet Your Mind and Become Unstoppable

Hervé Da Costa wants you to realize how much is going on in your mind and to practice putting it aside, reducing the noise inside, focusing on one simple thought: thinking about nothing. This practice itself can be magical. As one workshop participant I would find myself coming to know very well once said, it feels like “taking a vacation away from myself.” 

Do You Have a Personal Business Plan?

Do You Have a Personal Business Plan?

Most executives have a good sense of how to create strategic and operational plans. And they often have the talent to deliver on a good part of their plans in spite of the unpredictable events arising from their environment. However, when I askexecutives about their own business plan, they often answer: What do you mean? A personal business plan? For what?