Career Crafting Finding your Zone of Genius

Angela Lee

Assistant Dean, Columbia Business School

Founder, 37 Angels

Genius

Excellence

Competence

Incompetence

Experiment

Reflect

Aim

Experiment

Reflect

Aim

Get uncomfortable

Be strategic

Experiment

Reflect

Aim

Get uncomfortable

Be strategic

Experiment

Reflect

Aim

Expand your network

Engage your network

What opportunities do you want?

What do you want people to remember?

Embrace failure

Experiment

Reflect

Aim

Expand network

Opp. oriented intro

Embrace failure

Experiment

Reflect

Aim

How will you make time?

Sometimes you have to let go

What makes your heart sing?

Experiment

Reflect

Aim

Your turn

• How can you get uncomfortable?

• Who can nudge you? Who can you nudge?

• Where can you be more strategic (gaps, core skills)?

• Is your current role career broadening or narrowing?

Aim

Experiment

Reflect

• How to increase weak ties?

• How to re-engage existing ties?

• How to run a low risk fast failing experiment?

• What shoulds are you currently holding onto?

• What can you let go of / say no to?

• What does your ideal day look like?

• What makes your heart sing?

Resources

• Adam Grant: Give & Take

• MultipliersBooks.com (Quiz)

• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow

• Timothy Butler: Getting Unstuck

• Tom Rath: How Full Is Your Bucket

• Peter Bregmen: 18 Minutes

• Carol Dweck: Mindset

• Contact management: Newsle & Robuzz

• Bookmark management: Diigo

• Meditation: Headspace

• Slideshare angelawlee

Books

Tools

This deck

Thank you @angelawlee