A Personal Development Plan (PDP) is essentially a roadmap for our self-improvement journey. It's a way to identify our goals, strengths, areas of interest, areas for growth and then create a plan to enhance our skills and achieve those objectives.

We’ve all heard the saying that “change is always good,” right? Wrong. We don't like change; we don't like to step out of our comfort, but still, change must happen. I've been studying "Change management and resistance to change" in the last weeks because change is the norm in our #localization industry. In this post, I summarized my learnings so far! I hope you find it useful ☺️

Sometimes it seems that leadership skills are something innate, that one is either born with them or can never have them. Also, frequently in different articles and books, it is mentioned as being a manager or a leader. But is that really what is needed to implement an effective globalization strategy? Do we really need to choose between being a manager or a leader to implement localization processes that are solid and efficient? Some food for thought in this post after the summer holiday! 🙂

I was a team leader by chance, as I was a good Individual Contributor (IC) with knowledge of localization quality assurance and good communication skills. My transition was difficult and bumpy, as I was not ready and did not know the differences between being an IC and a Localization Team Manager. Despite the challenges, my capacity to adapt helped me succeed. To successfully transition from an IC role to a Localization Manager role, one must have the right mindset, be surrounded by skilled professionals, and have a supportive manager. I now understand the differences and want to share my learnings with others.

Few things are more frustrating than working on something and not seeing progress. It is something we face sooner or later when we want to improve in some area of our life, but we feel we are stuck.

In this post, I write about the plateau of latent potential, a phenomenon that occurs when our progress is slower than we would like it to be.

Reflection as a leadership skill as part of the Localization community provides us with several benefits: it allows us to learn faster and get up to speed in new situations more quickly. It helps us not make the same mistake twice. And it's super practical to question our assumptions and make better future decisions.

We’ve all heard the saying that “change is always good,” right? Wrong. We don't like change, we don't like to step out of our comfort but still change must happen. I've been studying in the last weeks about "Change management and resistance to change", because in our #localization industry change is the norm, so I thought this might be a nice soft-skills to polish during 2022. In this post, I summarized my learnings so far! I hope you find it useful ☺️

The year is slowly coming to an end, it is time to analyze how it went, it’s time to set the future goals for our localization strategy, it’s time to dream big to think where we want to be in 2020.

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