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When it comes to your career, the Lone Ranger approach will work against you. Successful professionals know that being connected to people and resources is essential to being influential, valued and mobile in your career. Career inspiration comes from many sources: your mentors, trusted colleagues and advisors – and from the ever-available web.
In this post, I highlight some of the multimedia resources that provide thought-provoking and action-oriented content to help you amp up your success and fulfillment from your work. The tools I highlight are not necessarily the ones with the most views or listens, they’re the ones I think stand out in the overwhelming volume of career advice you’ll find on the information superhighway.
Podcasts
If you’re an auditory learner, or you have a long drive to work and you want to make it more productive, consider these podcasts:
1. How to be Awesome at Your Job. This is a practical podcast focused on giving you actionable insights to increase your career success. The description of the podcast at iTunes says it all: “When you become a better thinker, doer, presenter and leader, more career fun, wins, meaning and money awaits.” Who doesn’t want to buy into that promise?
2. Finding Brave. This podcast is all about finding the courage you need to uncover, clarify and pursue your true passions. The focus is on being braver and acting on what will make you happy and more successful in your career. It helps you align who you are with what you do and how you do it –essential principles of personal branding. Kathy’s empathic style of interviewing is addictive to listen to.
3. Get-It-Done Guy. In this weekly podcast, Stever Robbins – A.K.A. the Get-It-Done Guy – helps you apply proven strategies for increasing your productivity so you can increase your success. Stever is one of the smartest and most approachable people I know, and he shares his knowledge to help his listeners make things happen. If you find your do-list paralyzing or the number of emails in your inbox frustrating, this podcast is for you.
4. The School Of Greatness With Lewis Howes. In this podcast, Lewis Howes answers the question: What makes the greatest people great? And then he helps you apply what you learn to your life. This podcast has received a lot of notoriety and accolades, and with good reason. It’s certainly worth a listen.
5. Happen To Your Career With Scott Anthony Barlow. If you’re not completely happy with your career and you want to do something about it, this podcast is a good place to start. Scott Anthony Barlow not only explores what might be a better fit, but also (and more importantly), he helps you connect work to something bigger, deeper and more meaningful.
Videos
If you’re more of a visual learner, like I am, or you find yourself on YouTube a lot because you like watching funny dog and cat videos, take a break from the animals. Get some inspiration and learn new techniques to advance your career with these YouTube channels.
6. Brendon Burchard’s YouTube channel has a multitude of inspiring videos with topics like How Incredibly Successful People Think to The Science of Motivation. You can pick and choose the topics that interest you and customize a learning experience that will be most helpful to you in achieving your career goals.
7. Super Charge Your Career with Deniz Sasal provides practical advice for common career challenges like How To Handle The Office Bully or How To Deal With Failure. This YouTube channel is worth a watch if you want to get past those things that might be holding you back.
8. Work It Daily with career expert J.T. O’Donnell is a truly comprehensive career resource. Her YouTube Channel is broken into playlists called things like Well This Happened and Career Change and Coaching Moment. Find the playlist that speaks to you, then watch a video a day and see your career take flight.
Today, career growth requires some bite-sized learning every day, so spend time regularly with these multimedia resources. They’re a great way to continually fuel your career growth, especially if you link what you’re learning to your unique personal brand.
William Arruda is a founder of CareerBlast and co-creator of BrandBoost - a video-based personal branding talent development experience.
