“Change is happening so fast that if people aren’t adapting to it and responding to it, and hiring for it, they’re not going to have the people that are going to help them grow and get through the rebound of business that we are in the middle of right now.” - Marti Konstant
In this rapidly changing workplace, today’s guest is helping workers transform themselves, and in turn revamp their workplaces and organizations as a whole. She does this by helping others to cultivate their individual careers and to view workforce development through an agility lens, which expands opportunities for creativity, growth and happiness.
Marti Konstant is a workplace futurist and the best-selling author of Activate Your Agile Career. She has an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and is a former technology executive from Silicon Valley. She has been featured in media outlets such as NBC Chicago, Levo League, The Muse and has worked with companies like Samsung, Dow Jones and Apple. She is an investor in multiple technology companies and is an expert in applying agile principles to workforce development.
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What You’ll Hear In This Episode:
- What inspired Marti to do the work she does today, and the valuable lessons she received working with technology companies [1:46]
- What “A/B testing” your career is - and isn’t [6:42]
- How to give and receive feedback in a constructive manner [8:06]
- What Marti believes is management’s role in supporting this type of structure in their workplace [12:36]
- The reasons that thinking of your career as a series of projects can be really helpful [14:21]
- What to look for in a work environment that would be more open to having agile employees [16:31]
- Where Marti sees people stumbling most on their career paths [21:34]
- The first steps to take if you are interesting in developing your own career agility [28:29]
Additional Links & Resources:
Marty’s Book, Active Your Agile Career & Her Career Resources and Tools
Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go by Beverly Kaye & Julie Winkle Giulioni
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