Episode 141: Getting you further, faster in career (and in life) with Warren James
We’re switching gears and I’m talking to my good friend, Warren James about LIFE stuff. Okay and a bit of work stuff, including developing our careers and performance reviews
BUT we also delve into sleep, switching off, clarifying your vision, and dealing with stress.
Warren is a Brisbane-based coach and mentor providing online mentoring, coaching and training to some of Australia’s most talented graduates and employees early in their careers.
Check out Warren’s new book: Further Faster!
He also released his first book this week called: Further Faster: The ultimate guide to accelerating your career
Warren has developed his career from the ground-up and has worked with some of the most respected businesses in the industry including BG Group, Shell, QGC, Alinta and Arrow Energy.
As an engineer and later, a project manager, he has faced and overcame challenges that many projects managers face. He has managed projects in excess of $50M, overcome competing deadlines and overcome adversity time and time again.
Having lived and breathed this industry for more than 10 years, he understands what today’s graduates need to not only survive but thrive.
Today, as the founder of Rapid Mentoring, he partners with businesses across Australia who are genuinely interested in the development of their staff.
About today’s guest: Warren James
Warren James is a Brisbane-based coach and mentor providing online mentoring, coaching and training to some of Australia’s most talented graduates and employees early in their careers.
He has developed his career from the ground-up and has worked with some of the most respected businesses in the industry including BG Group, Shell, QGC, Alinta and Arrow Energy.
As an engineer and later, a project manager, he has faced and overcame challenges that many projects managers face. He has managed projects in excess of $50M, overcome competing deadlines and overcome adversity time and time again.
Having lived and breathed this industry for more than 10 years, he understands what today’s graduates need to not only survive but thrive.
Today, as the founder of Rapid Mentoring, he partners with businesses across Australia who are genuinely interested in the development of their staff. For the manager who cares, they give your employees the resources they need to take their career and life further, faster.
In this episode you will learn:
Handling stress, feeling of overwhelm and exhaustion from work
How to get started writing a book
How personal life, career goals, bucket list and finances are important in accelerating your career
Creating balance by planning ahead and creating a vision
Switching off, sleeping better
How to accelerate your career during ing career Covid
Here are some questions I asked Warren during the interview:
Can you please share some pivots, watershed moments in your career that brought you to what you’re doing today?
You mentioned that you were stressed and burnt out, and at the end of that project you took four months off, what was going through your mind when you were in the middle of that feeling overwhelmed, you must have been exhausted?
Is there anything that we could do if you’re caught in the middle of it, reflecting on this experience, if you could give yourself advice, what could you have done to mitigate it?
What were the first steps you took to get you into writing the book?
Can you share why four pillars (personal life, career goals, bucket list and finances) are so important in accelerating your career?
Tell us your strategy about annual performance reviews.
What advice can you give to people who want to accelerate their career especially during this time of Covid?
You’ve transitioned from accelerating your career to accelerating your business, how did you find that shift?
Resources:
Connect with Warren James on Linkedin
Rapid Mentoring website
Warren’s new book: Further Faster: The Ultimate Guide to Accelerating Your Career
Get on the waitlist for Virtually Possible 2.0!
Quotes:
It’s so much more professional to tell people “No!” earlier, than letting them down later down the track.
It’s important to look at your bucket list and the things that you really want to do, enjoy life as much as you can through the process.
Watch the video!
About your host: Leanne Hughes
Leanne Hughes is an international facilitator, speaker and coach who loves creating unpredictable workshop experiences, that predictably work.
She combines her experience in Marketing, with her education in Human Resources and Psychology, to help leaders create engaging everyday experiences - that are so contagious they scale across teams, functions and regions.
Leanne has facilitated leadership, onboarding and team-development workshops across Australia, Canada, France, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Mongolia, Singapore and believes in a strengths-centred approach to learning and development. She has over 13 years’ of experience across a range of industries including mining, government and tourism sectors.
She’s the host of the First Time Facilitator podcast and was a finalist in the 2018 Australian Learning Impact awards for Learning Professional of the Year.
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