19# Grind’n’Hustle

Answer These Questions to Upgrade your Medium Skill

Fill the knowledge of capacity to gain your magnetic influence

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To manage our performance effectively, we need to know ourselves well. Identifying our strengths and gaps can help us know where to start when asking for the learning opportunities and support we need.

This brief self-assessment will help us begin to capture our skills and interests and unearth areas to explore as we begin to solicit feedback from others.

When we know what to do well — and what we most enjoy — it’s easier to identify opportunities that allow us to deliver our best effort and cultivate a fulfilling Medium career path.

Use the following questions to help us think through our developmental needs and goals in this platform. Periodically returning to this assessment will help us understand where we are — and where you’d like to go — as our career path evolves.

1. What’s the overall fit between our current position and our interests, values, and skills?
2. What is your overall level of satisfaction with your current theme?
3. What do you think others would say are your strengths (best topic)?
4. What do you think others would say are your gaps (underperformance article)?
5. What do you consider to be your top five topics (that is, those where you have the most proficiency)?
6. Of your top skills, which ones do you most enjoy using?
7. What are the top two or three skills you need or want to learn in order to grow in Medium, advance to the next level, or seek a new topic?
8. What are your key transferable skills — those skills that are not just writing-specific but can be applied to work in many positions (such as basic social media selling skills, negotiation skills, or IT analysis)?
9. What are your long-term Medium career goals?
10. With your long-term career goals in mind, what are your short-term career development goals? Where would you like to be 6 to 12 months in Medium from now?
11. What are some developmental opportunities you can take advantage of?

As far as I know, Medium linked to 2 options for writers;

1. Literature kind of writer
2. Business kind of writer

The problem is so many people move into Medium because they are tired of the Internet Selling model type of thing. Those people whether you like it or not going to be your followers, and nobody wants to feel divided by the place they choose to swim into.

I guess the best bet is to just write, but since you feel the weight of opportunity please reconsider the purpose.

Thanks and God Bless

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