Are you a highly rated, qualified professional who is ready to realise their professional potential and is finding it a struggle?

You are not alone.  Over the years I have worked with hundreds of professional people who were great at the technical aspects of the job, wanted to be highly successful in their career but pretty quickly hit a glass ceiling and got stuck. 

Truth is how far you progress is not about how great you are at the technical aspects of the job.

You obviously need to keep your professional skills up to date but what really determines how successfully you are is down to a number of factors including:

1.  Your ability to prioritise your own work so that you get the most important things done.
2. How effective you are at influencing and motivating others.
3. Your ability to recognise the need for and successfully make change.
4. Your skills at setting a clear direction and then getting others to help you achieve.
5. Getting teams to work effectively.

Some common reasons why professionals hit the glass ceiling

They see successfully completing professional examinations as being the end of the road in terms of profesional development.  Truth is that completing professional examinations while extremely demanding is what gets you in the door.  It’s the proof that you have the ncessary technical ability to do the job, which is obviously essential.

Where people do undertake continuing professional development they are too narrowly focused on the technical aspects of the job.  While it is vital to keep up to date in your area of expertise, you need to recognise that as you progress your ability to manage and lead will be what sets you apart from everyone else.

They fail to recognise that in a senior level role your success or otherwise is determined by you ability to lead, inspire, motivate others and achieve results through others to name just a few.  It is not just about what you do but how you behave, develop and build relationships.  In fact research suggests that nearly all of the contribution to successful leadership comes not from how smart you are but from your self awareness, influence and interpersonal skills.

 It is possible to realise your potential

At Goals and Achievements we help highly rated professional people just like you to develop the skills and attribues to become highly successful managers and leaders and achieve career and personal success.

Since 2006, Duncan Brodie has been helping hundreds of accountants, doctors and other professionals individually and in groups to become even better managers and leaders.  Drawing heavily on his 25 years working in accountancy in major organisations where he successfully progressed from Accounts Clerk to Financial Director, some of the challenges he has helped them to address, include:

1.  How to deliver better results by focusing on those areas that contribute most to their success.
2. Becoming better at leading and managing teams.
3. Getting different parts of the organisation to work together rather than in silos.
4. Making a greater impact outside of their own professional discipline.
5. Overcoming some of their personal limiting beliefs and myths that were getting in the way of delivering results.
6. Progressing their careers by more effectively presenting themselves, their skills, experience and personal attributes.

If you are ready to achieve better results as a manager or leader, why not take the first step and take advantage of our free audio e-course Leadership Success.

For more information about our services and programmes, visit our main web site