It’s Nobody’s Responsibility to Continue Developing Your Talent

by Justin Skycak (@justinskycak) on

As you exit school and enter the workforce, nobody owes you continued talent development. You receive it in exchange for being useful and demonstrating that additional coaching produces outsized gains in your value.

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As you exit school and enter the workforce, it’s nobody’s responsibility to continue developing your talent.

You receive continued talent development in return for

  1. being useful in some way to begin with, and
  2. demonstrating that additional coaching/mentorship produces outsized gains in your utility/value to the business.

If you don’t understand this you’re ngmi.


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