Making any kind of decision, but particularly ‘big’ life choices such as career decisions can be difficult. Many people will offer advice on how to go about the process, but it is good to identify how you tend to approach decisions, and identify what about your decision making style may be helping or hindering you.
Talking shop – learning from conversations with colleagues
As an idiomatic phrase, ‘talking shop’ has probably never had a pleasant connotation. Think of those people who can’t let work go at non-work events; or situations or organisations where lots of talking takes place but no decision is ever made and nothing gets done. Talking shop or professional conversation, to give it a more scholarly gloss, is an invaluable – and often overlooked – source of learning and development in our careers.