[Free] How To Elevate Your Team's Culture &Amp; Accelerate Your Career
A data-driven system for maximizing the impact you have on your team through collaboration, education, and much more. – Free Course
What you’ll learn
- Describe the 5 Goldmines and their corresponding “Fool’s Gold”
- Understand why the 5 Goldmines lead to getting promoted more quickly
- Examine your work environment through the lens of the 5 Goldmines to identify opportunities
- Weigh which of the 5 Goldmines you are strong in and where you could improve
- Create a personalized action plan to adopt each of the 5 Goldmines
Requirements
- Creativity
- Growth Mindset
- Your Personal Stories & Work Experiences
Description
My StoryI used to think I didn’t belong anywhere.
I was working boring service jobs, standing behind a cash register all day, wondering why I decided to major in Spanish Education. My $10/hour income was depressing, but I had no interest in climbing any corporate ladder, and I didn’t have any high-paying skills. My future looked bleak.
One day, I decided to take matters into my own hands.
I took stock of my skills, interests, and career path options, and decided to break into the tech industry. I thought I’d start by learning web development, but ended up landing my first role as an email support agent for Fetch Rewards. My job performance & coding background helped me quickly transition over to the software quality assurance team, and later on, to the automation team within QA, where I’d have my first job writing code.Why I Made This Course
As my career took off, I started noticing that I was getting recognition and promotions faster and more frequently than many of my peers. By the time I left Fetch Rewards, I was making 5x what I had made as a cashier.
I didn’t believe it was luck or favoritism, but I didn’t quite know what I was doing differently. I became determined to isolate the unique contribution I was making so I could teach others how to replicate my success.
Data Doesn’t Lie
Thanks to HeyTaco, an employee engagement app, I was able to dig through 2000+ social interactions I had during my time at Fetch Rewards. Each of these was a time when an employee had decided to award me a taco for something I did. Tacos are currency in the HeyTaco app, so effectively, they were paying me for something they thought was valuable.
Manually sifting through Slack conversations and categorizing the actions I took that awarded me tacos, I revealed the top 5 things I was doing that got me recognition from my peers.
Those 5 things are the foundation of this course.
I call them Goldmines, because they are valuable opportunities.
What’s In This Course:
For each of the 5 Goldmines, you’re given the following structure:
– Videos to explain the concept
– Questions to get you thinking about your own unique opportunities
– Action Plan template to help you assemble your own map to success
At the end of the course, I touch on some advice for:
– Forming new habits
– Asking for a raise
– Transitioning to a new job
This course isn’t exclusive to tech employees. I started using this approach to work as early as my cashiering days, so my hope is you’ll find value in this course, no matter your job title.
Author(s): Steven Boutcher
