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Talent Trade Tidbit - Corporate Ladder Vs. Lattice · The Talent Trade

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  Hi, this is Stephanie Maas, partner with Thinking Ahead Search.
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  Today I wanna talk to you about a topic I've talked about multiple times in the past, but it seems especially relevant today, and this is the idea of professional advancement.
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  Professional advancement in the past.
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  My parents probably Your parents, definitely our grandparents.
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  Advancement was the corporate ladder.
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  This is the ladder, these are the wrongs.
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  It went one direction.
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  If you did it right, you went up it.
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  If you did it wrong.
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  You fell off the ladder.
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  Not good.
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  Sometimes you went down and could go back up.
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  It was kind of a one-way thing.
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  Or you could also just stay on one rung, and that's perfectly fine too.
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  Our professional environment has changed dramatically.
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  Let me suggest, instead of the corporate ladder, I really don't believe that exists anymore.
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  It's a corporate lattice.
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  You can go in a myriad of directions.
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  Up, down, diagonal, you can switch completely to the other side.
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  There are endless possibilities, but I do believe with change comes tremendous opportunity and I think we need to just stop and take a look at the corporate lattice and say, Hey.
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  Where do I see myself in two or three years?
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  You know, sometimes it is going straight.
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  That's perfectly fine.
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  But be creative.
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  Think other ways.
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  Think about, Hey, what skillset could I go do by coming over to this part of the lattice that would eventually maybe get me up here?
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  Can I develop that skillset right now?
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  What opportunities that maybe didn't exist a year ago, two years ago, five years ago, exist today that if I take advantage of them, they would put me on this part of the lattice.
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  Doesn't matter where you ultimately want to go, but this is a phenomenal time to really think through your lattice of growth, your advancement path, and make sure you are taking advantage of the opportunities that are there for
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  you.