Key Career Trait 35: PROGRESSIVE
- Erica Hughey
- Jun 7
- 3 min read
This is the ability to gain new perspectives and bring about change quickly and efficiently. In your work environment, you consistently show a remarkable willingness to tackle challenges and find solutions when everything seems to be at a standstill. Your drive for new experiences leads you to question things and improve processes where others seek only the familiar. This ability makes you a valuable source of inspiration during crises. You are used to acting even in uncertainty and are not afraid to try new ideas. Your experience helps you quickly find the right course in unfamiliar situations and initiate change.
With your adventurous spirit and desire for personal growth, you foster creative exchange within your team. You recognize opportunities in every situation and motivate others to take risks and step out of their comfort zones. Change is not a problem for you but an opportunity to develop and grow. Your ability to connect the new with the familiar creates a balance that helps your team think innovatively. You are a leader who not only takes risks but also manages them strategically to get the best out of every situation. In doing so, you ensure that others feel secure and can benefit from your experiences.
However, it is important that you do not turn your curiosity into a constant hunt for new experiences. Your hunger for variety can lead you to spread yourself too thin and leave projects unfinished because you are always chasing the next adventure. The key lies in waiting for the right moment and making sure that you finish what you’ve started before moving on to the next challenge. Your challenge is to wait for the right moment and take the time to truly complete something. If you can do that, you will find that with each task you finish, you’ll be even more ready to face the next challenges.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
If you are bored with your job or finding yourself moving from position to position, that’s a signal of unfulfillment and that your personal interests are not aligned with your professional pursuits. That insatiable thirst for a purposeful career will continue to show itself until you learn to leverage your natural knowledge, skills and abilities and put them to work for you as your gift to society. Here’s how to develop this trait:
STAGE 1- HUMILITY: Be able to accept setbacks and disappointments as a part of your career trajectory, a part of life’s progress process. Being humbled doesn’t have to humiliate you.
STAGE 2- CREATIVE BLOCK: The inspiration for change won’t always be present, in the meantime, leaning on your values and virtue will help you cope during unproductive times.
STAGE 3- COLLABORATION: The talent to bring progressive change into the careers of others. Helping colleagues evolve in their professional lives through shared experiences that are excellent learning opportunities.
STAGE 4- IMPULSIVENESS: Having a hunger that demands progress by any means necessary. Be aware to balance this insatiable appetite for change so you don’t step on your team members toes.
STAGE 5- ALTRUISM: Enhancing the experiences of others by sharing your wealth of experiences so others can benefit from what you have learned.
STAGE 6- RECTIFICATION: Using your bird’s eye view to reexamine and realign understanding that progressive change comes from correction. Reviewing an initiative to determine should the team tweak it or scrap it and start something new.
Satori Synergy offers data-driven, transformative career coaching and team building to change-ready professionals and organizations to cultivate successful work cultures and satisfying careers aligned with individual natural traits and strengths. Erica Hughey, The Career Engineer, trained at the Human Design Business Institute, uses your Career Design Blueprint as an objective, individualized tool for tailored professional development, leadership training, talent management, and change management. She incorporates her knowledge in social intelligence, emotional intelligence and corporate cultural intelligence provides you with a holistic analysis and comprehensive coaching experience.
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