Jump on the Executive Fast Track

By Meg Montford

"How can I get on track for an executive position?" Here are top five tips for executive career advancement. Even if you aren't interested in reaching the corner office, take a look at this list to see what you can use to help you move your career forward.

• Identify 3 to 5 executives you would like to model and start learning everything you can about them, their work, their business philosophies, and the charities they support.

• Read, read, read. What? Periodicals: Forbes or Fortune, Business Week, Harvard Review, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. Books: New York Times nonfiction bestseller list plus some of favorites such as The World Is Flat; Now, Discover Your Strengths; A Whole New Mind; and Primal Leadership.

• Make sure your name is findable in Google. How? Start a blog, write and publish online professional articles, get quoted by the media, give presentations. What else? Caution: Beware of your "digital dirt."

• Proactively build your contacts database by networking on purpose. Build long term, reciprocal, professional relationships. Remember the Golden Rule.

• Beef up your communication skills. Have you ever considered learning a foreign language? Business is conducted in a global economy. Become versatile.

Advancing to the C-level team takes strategy, commitment, persistence and lots of hard work. What plan do you have in place to achieve your goals? Get help from a career coach to create your career strategy and stay on track. The time you invest in your career now will pay huge dividends in the future.

Meg Montford, Executive Career Coach at Abilities Enhanced® (http://www.abilitiesenhanced.com), can help you discover career possibilities and how to turn them into realities. She coaches professionals who not only want to cope with change, but learn to thrive on it. Contact her for information on what career coaching can do for you. You CAN develop a strategy to win the employment game!

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