How's Your Asset? (Part 2 of 3): The Personal Strategic Plan

To grow your asset well requires a plan, one designed to make your asset increasingly more valuable on the marketplace. You have to find ways to (continue to) develop the knowledge and skills that your target clients value. In essence, we all need a personal strategic plan for our careers.

What can you do to promote your learning, apart from being exposed to a variety of experiences? Traditionally, most people acquire their skills and knowledge by opportunistic insights, not structured learning (the phrase is from Donald Schon). However, you can rely too much on “random” experience as a teacher. To learn well, you have to set out to learn some specific something.

Unfortunately, this requires focus...