Significant Career Lesson From An Executive Coach And Trainer At Studio DTO
Dana, an executive coach and trainer, identifies "ask for what you want and be prepared to get it" as a significant career lesson, citing examples like pursuing business school, seeking internships, requesting raises, and actively acquiring clients for their own business. This proactive approach, even leading to a current "amazing problem to have" of juggling multiple responsibilities, contrasts with remaining in a less fulfilling corporate role.
Executive/Leadership, Achieving Goals, Overcoming Challenges, Motivation, Negotiation
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Dana Old
Executive Coach and Trainer
Studio DTO
University of Pennsylvania, 2005
MBA, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Communications
Coaching, Speaking & Writing
Human Resources (HR)
Took Out Loans, Greek Life Member
Video Highlights
1. Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it. This includes asking for raises, taking on new responsibilities, and seeking out new opportunities.
2. Don't be afraid to take risks and step outside of your comfort zone. Dana's career path involved becoming a small business owner, something she never initially expected.
3. Be proactive in your career. Don't wait for opportunities to come to you; actively seek them out and make your desires known to your superiors or clients.
Transcript
What is one lesson that you've learned that's proving significant for your career?
Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it. I think that is a big one for me. You're not going to get everything handed to you on a silver platter.
You don't know if you don't ask. So, I think back to many different instances. Ask for what you want. That could be applying to business school and getting in. That could be really going for that internship.
I would never get it if I didn't go for it. Asking for that raise, raising my hand when the colleague left. "Can I take on his responsibilities?" They might have said no, but they didn't.
I don't know if I would have received those opportunities had I not asked for clients when I'm a small business owner. I never thought I would be a small business owner. So if I had that inkling, and I had that umph that all of a sudden came, "Okay, I'm going to go out and get clients," then so ask for what you want, but be prepared to get it.
Now, I'm almost juggling too much, which is an amazing problem to have. But I would not have been there if I'd just continued to do that corporate job that, at the time, I was really not interested in anymore.
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