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The Compass Journal: Navigating Careers & Leadership

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Blog Archives

June 23, 2021

Want to future-proof your career? Adaptability is the number one power skill

Charles Darwin’s words still very much ring true. “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, it is the one that is most adaptable to change.” If 2020 has shown us anything, it’s that the environment in which we now work is incredibly unpredictable; things change fast. So, employees

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May 11, 2021

Your Career Development Journey. Consider These Six Different Routes You Can Take

In my last blog post, ‘Career Development has changed. It’s time for a meaningful 21st century definition‘, I talked about how the world of work has changed. If ladders still exist, they are harder to climb. Here we explore other ways to take your career development journey. People still move upwards in a career. In

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May 5, 2021

Career Development has changed. It’s time for a meaningful 21st century definition

Career progression – redefining career development.
What does career progression mean to you? If you had to create an image to represent career progression, what would it be?

I asked that very question in a webinar for a client recently and I received the following answers:

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April 1, 2021

9 Years of Celebration with Team AO

It’s been quite a year hasn’t it? But now, Spring is here, the sun has appeared and the UK is starting to come out of lockdown. There is an atmosphere of hope, and optimism. And Team AO is celebrating! 1 April 2021 is our 9th Birthday (and no, that’s not an April Fools spoof). So,

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March 18, 2021

How to Get Mentors and Mentees Excited About Your Mentoring Programme

This blog post continues our series, A Year in the Life of an Organisation’s Mentoring Programme. Team AO are working with a worldwide organisation to implement a programme of mentoring to develop the careers of junior female scientific researchers. In this series of blog posts, I am sharing with you how we went about delivering the

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February 25, 2021

How to Engage Participants in Your Mentoring Programme

My last blog post was A Year in the Life of an Organisation’s Mentoring Programme. In that post, I introduced you to the Mentoring Programme that we are developing and implementing for a client. We are working with a worldwide organisation to implement a programme of mentoring to develop the careers of junior female scientific

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February 7, 2021

7 Career Development Strategies for Future-Proofing Your Career

What will your job look like five years from now? Will it even exist in five, 10 or 20 years? And what will happen to the organisation and industry you work for? Many roles are becoming extinct, being replaced by technology while brand new roles are popping up every day. And, as I outlined in

January 27, 2021

Podcast Interview: Using Career Management to build engagement

In this episode Antoinette was interviewed by Craig Smith, owner of The Big Picture People, and host of the Engaging Internal Comms podcast. They discuss using career management to build engagement with employees.

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January 5, 2021

Career Development: Skills Needed for the Future Workplace

As I outlined in my last blog post ‘Career Development: What does the future of work look like?‘, there are five major trends that will impact on the future of work and career development. By 2035, 40% of today’s professions are likely to have disappeared. They will be replaced by new and exciting jobs to

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