Top Tips for Professional Development that keep path with Present Challenges

Information Technology and Professional Development:    For all our expertise, IT is an industry exuberant with constantly innovating something new, while sustaining what is required.  Some of the "big things" are nothing, some of the things we think we will be doing forever, are interrupted.  But Ideation, Innovation, and Collaboration is always remixing and creating our next big opportunity.  

• Y2K was a big ado about nothing but we learned how to dust off our disaster recovery plans
• The Dot Comm bubble burst was a represented devastating halt to IT Startups 
• Remaining viable after 911 was cutting costs, adding value,  tracking assets/security.
• Business Process Outsourcing and offshoring became significant to reduce expense. 
• LinkedIn  use to drive social business Brand around 2003  Today 93%+  Fortune 500 "in" 
• DevOps began to trend in 2014 for continuous development, automation and orchestration

2020 Work Forecast began well, then came Coronavirus, a World Health Pandemic that disrupted business as we know it.  

How can we promote health and professional wellness ?  

  

We KNOW that most jobs are identified through networking.  But the skills, the timing, and the connections need to align for this to happen. 

Talking about what works generates belief that your goals are possible, inspiration from people that have done it, and creates likelihood of a replica-table success strategy. 

Please participate in the comments.    

Answer the questions you want, omit those you don't want.  

1. What are the peak learning in your early career, and how did that change your thinking? 
2. What are your Tops Tips for Professional Development?  
3. How do you keep motivated to manage your Action Plan for making it happen? 
4. What are you doing today that you are excited to be a part of?  
5. What are you reading or learning now that you find interesting?    
6. What best practices networking and business networking groups have you found useful for your job search or your career? 
7. What Process Improvement Techniques and Methodologies help you solve problems?