Autonomy: An Essential Part of Professional Development
Over the course of my career, ‘training’ has been varied.
There’s been on-the-job training, and learning directly from a more qualified colleague. Then there has been the occasional conference (which in many cases, involved swapping passes with a co-worker part way through the day so we could take turns attending). There’s also been group training, both internally and externally.
Much of this training was valuable, but what I didn’t have was the freedom of choice. A choice to decide what I’d like to learn and how.
Continued learning has always been important to me, but much of what I have learned since starting in SEO has been prescribed by current client needs, agency growth plans, or specific requirements to be promoted into a more senior role.
This has seen me:
- trawling through endless pages of Google Tag Manager documentation
- shouting across the room at a General Assembly public speaking workshop
- and listening to videos about creating a great user experience whilst cooking my dinner.
I was happy to do all of these things, but none of them made me happy.
Then I joined Re:signal and understood that the reason was that I’d never been given autonomy over my career training choices before.
What is autonomy?
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