Speaker 1: Well, welcome, welcome everyone to the first and the pilot
Speaker 1: episode of the Breakthrough Lab. I am your host, Giovanni Vromirez,
Speaker 1: and I really appreciate you for tuning in and supporting
Speaker 1: this beautiful labor of love of mine. And yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a pilot episode. I'm nervous, I'm excited. You really want
Speaker 1: to create something that adds a lot of value to
Speaker 1: people's lives, and I just have to say it's important
Speaker 1: to me to create something that passes along a lot
Speaker 1: of great information. You may not know a lot about me,
Speaker 1: but as your host, Giovanni, I have a career storied
Speaker 1: in finance and business operations, and I've been a career
Speaker 1: coach for about twelve years, mostly working with mid level
Speaker 1: and entry level professionals, and it's been quite a journey
Speaker 1: helping individuals get into great working opportunities, advance their careers,
Speaker 1: help with writing resumes and how to interview right. A
Speaker 1: lot of these educational centers and universities, they're so busy
Speaker 1: trying to deal with the mental health of the students
Speaker 1: and also trying to get people educated in the degree
Speaker 1: that they spend many years to achieve, and sometimes these
Speaker 1: institutions just forget that these individuals need to go out
Speaker 1: and learn how to sell themselves and how they're going
Speaker 1: to add value to organizations. And so it's been a
Speaker 1: really great passion project of mine and it's the same
Speaker 1: thing that I would like to do with this show.
Speaker 1: It's really just about giving back and giving back and
Speaker 1: just creating a lot of value and seeing if anything
Speaker 1: can stick with you so you can have your breakthrough moments.
Speaker 1: So I did put the slogan or the tagline for
Speaker 1: the show is your next Breakthrough Start Tier, And I
Speaker 1: really do believe and hope and that's my target to
Speaker 1: make sure that you are getting actionable, insightful advice that
Speaker 1: you can put into your everyday life, into your career,
Speaker 1: into your entrepreneurial journey, or just maybe just something that
Speaker 1: just gives you a bit more peace of mind. That's
Speaker 1: what we're aiming here at the Breakthrough Lab. And so
Speaker 1: the purpose of the show is just that just really
Speaker 1: give back and have an opportunity for those actionable insightful
Speaker 1: advice too, and those that wisdom that can be imparted
Speaker 1: through conversations, through messages, through great communication. That's the true
Speaker 1: purpose of this show and it's something I look forward
Speaker 1: to do on a weekly basis. Here this show has
Speaker 1: been started or I have a partnership with SOS Radio
Speaker 1: dot Live, and I feel very blessed to have this
Speaker 1: partnership with them. It's a community of just people that
Speaker 1: want to give back, that have a heart, that understand
Speaker 1: that society is not all just about making money or advancing.
Speaker 1: It's really about evolving yourself and the science of survival.
Speaker 1: SOS that's what it stands for. Is something that I'm truly,
Speaker 1: truly proud to partner up with. For those of you
Speaker 1: who know me, you guys know that we have a
Speaker 1: wonderful community in Connecticut name Warm Heart Life and that
Speaker 1: spearheaded by Brandon Godora as a good friend of mine,
Speaker 1: and being part of that community is incredible. And just
Speaker 1: finding another community here in the heart of New Jersey
Speaker 1: to create something beautiful with and maybe possibly in the
Speaker 1: future bringing these communities together. Wow, I'm just so blessed
Speaker 1: and so hopeful that this new opportunity in partnership can
Speaker 1: really bring about, you know, that impact that we all
Speaker 1: seek to make around the world. I want to look
Speaker 1: at my notes here and so I was thinking about
Speaker 1: what this episode could be should I bring in a
Speaker 1: guest right away? What should be the topic to discuss.
Speaker 1: You know, a pilot episode is really just you launching
Speaker 1: and being excited for it. So I'm gonna pat myself
Speaker 1: on the shoulder to be able to get this thing
Speaker 1: going today. But on the flip side, you know, I
Speaker 1: really thought about the fact that I'm a career coach
Speaker 1: and I I think the pilot episode, she'll really revolve
Speaker 1: around a great career advice or things that I'm seeing
Speaker 1: in the marketplace when it comes to individuals applying or
Speaker 1: trying to advance their career. So I thought today I
Speaker 1: would make in more career centric this morning, just this
Speaker 1: morning actually, so I'm taking this on Sunday in the afternoon, sorry,
Speaker 1: on Saturday in the afternoon. But just this morning, I
Speaker 1: had a great coaching session with a client of Minds.
Speaker 1: It's a third session, and you know, it's really insightful
Speaker 1: each time I meet with a client to see what
Speaker 1: the latest struggles are like, what are people struggling with,
Speaker 1: what are they trying to, what are they thinking over,
Speaker 1: what's keeping them from moving forward? Right? And so things
Speaker 1: do change. There are trends when it comes to employment.
Speaker 1: There are trends that it comes to moving in advance
Speaker 1: in your career. There are trends in how to promote
Speaker 1: yourself in the business and employment and career atmosphere, and
Speaker 1: so I thought I would focus on some data points
Speaker 1: recently that I've been able to come across and find
Speaker 1: super super valuable. So the first one is, I think
Speaker 1: individuals are choosing a lot of remote work lately, and
Speaker 1: so there's a lot of when I work with new clients,
Speaker 1: usually they tell me I want a remote position, and
Speaker 1: a remote position could be both a blessing and a curse.
Speaker 1: One of the blessings of work and remotely obviously, is
Speaker 1: that you don't you don't have to leave your home.
Speaker 1: That usually means you're not spending money that you're not
Speaker 1: on gas on travel, you're not using up time on
Speaker 1: travel back and forth in that commute, you're not spending
Speaker 1: money on food, right food, You've got your fridge, you
Speaker 1: can cook at home, make everything from home, and so
Speaker 1: remote has its, you know, big, big pluses, but there's
Speaker 1: a lot of negatives that also come with remote work.
Speaker 1: And so if you are remote working, I do want
Speaker 1: to give you some pieces of advice and this will
Speaker 1: also work if you are looking to get into a
Speaker 1: remote opportunity, or perhaps you know you wanna, or your
Speaker 1: job is switching you to a remote opportunity. So I
Speaker 1: want you to look out for these things. Okay, Number
Speaker 1: one is if you're working remotely, you're probably going to
Speaker 1: be using a webcam a lot. And what I find
Speaker 1: is individuals are using their internal webcam on their laptop.
Speaker 1: And I really want you to invest in a great
Speaker 1: webcam or a camera that has great footage. And I
Speaker 1: also want you to invest in a really great microphone.
Speaker 1: And so the reason why I'd like you to do
Speaker 1: this is because sometimes these items, the audio in the
Speaker 1: visual really impact the way you are the way you
Speaker 1: are visualized from a quality standpoint, right. And so we
Speaker 1: all like HD or high definition movies and great visuals, right,
Speaker 1: great quality visuals and audio as well. You go to
Speaker 1: a movie theater, you want that beautiful visual and audio experience.
Speaker 1: And so as a worker, you need to do the
Speaker 1: same thing you are on a camera. People are hearing
Speaker 1: your voice and the crisper. The more quality you can
Speaker 1: add to the audio in the visual, the more this
Speaker 1: is going to come across as part of your work.
Speaker 1: Quality and you may think it's not, and I hope
Speaker 1: you don't think it's not, but it's incredible important for
Speaker 1: you to look like a quality employee. And the audio
Speaker 1: visual component of working from home is one of those
Speaker 1: things that truly, truly will make a difference. Now, of course,
Speaker 1: it won't make a difference to the quality of your
Speaker 1: work in most cases, you know, you might be working
Speaker 1: an Excel word emailing. However, the perception of quality of
Speaker 1: work is very important. You know, people will anytime they
Speaker 1: meet you, they will think about that quality image and
Speaker 1: that quality audio that they can hear you, that you're crisp,
Speaker 1: that they don't have to repeat themselves because you couldn't
Speaker 1: hear them or they couldn't hear you. And you want
Speaker 1: to really have that quality image, and this is something
Speaker 1: that I totally would love for you to invest in.
Speaker 1: If you are in a remote opportunity or you're looking
Speaker 1: to get into a remote career opportunity. The second thing
Speaker 1: is you may be missing out on connecting with some
Speaker 1: great individuals because you're not in the office. It's very
Speaker 1: hard to connect on a video over a laptop, and
Speaker 1: so I want you to make an effort to go
Speaker 1: into the office as most as possible. If you're not
Speaker 1: able to make it into the office. Let's say your
Speaker 1: company is in New York where you work in California,
Speaker 1: then and you're always remote and you're always going to
Speaker 1: be on this audio video on your laptop, what you
Speaker 1: would like to do is try to connect with employees
Speaker 1: that are locally and see if you can hang out
Speaker 1: with them or create a digital meetup opportunities. The reason
Speaker 1: being is that you want to establish a beautiful relationship
Speaker 1: at work, and the in person is so important. There's
Speaker 1: nothing like connecting with an individual in real life and
Speaker 1: sharing things that are just outside of work, a little
Speaker 1: bit of personal a little bit of the fun things,
Speaker 1: the hobbies, the interests. Just you end up connecting with
Speaker 1: an individual at a higher level and you can get
Speaker 1: to know them really well. As Also, why I recommend
Speaker 1: this is because that connection could be the difference when
Speaker 1: it comes to you getting laid off or not. You
Speaker 1: know a lot of times companies and business they have
Speaker 1: the ebbs and flows, and you really want to connect
Speaker 1: with the person because if they have an emotional connection
Speaker 1: with you, you know, if they are making the decision
Speaker 1: as to who's going to be let go. That can
Speaker 1: make the difference as well as that can make the
Speaker 1: difference when you are when you are seeking a promotion. Right,
Speaker 1: a lot of times, the relationship that we build up
Speaker 1: really is what causes the what do we call it?
Speaker 1: That relationship really solidifies how you're going to be working
Speaker 1: as a team or as a manager. And so the
Speaker 1: more insight you can provide your superior or your colleagues
Speaker 1: as to how you're going to be particularly connecting them
Speaker 1: with them in real life or you know, outside of work,
Speaker 1: the more you can create these strong relationships that are
Speaker 1: going to maybe drive that next promotion and if not,
Speaker 1: that next salary increase as well. And the last thing
Speaker 1: I want to talk about remote working is that it's
Speaker 1: very hard for individuals to know what you're doing, particularly
Speaker 1: when you're remote, because no one's seeing you, no one's
Speaker 1: there day to day, and so that leaves a lot
Speaker 1: of room to the imagination, and it leaves a lot
Speaker 1: of room for perception or skewed perceptions. And so I
Speaker 1: do recommend you having a wee weekly summary of everything
Speaker 1: that you've broke down. You can format it as a newsletter,
Speaker 1: you can format it as a simple end of week update.
Speaker 1: Or even a start a week update or looking backwards. Right,
Speaker 1: that sort of summary is going to keep everybody in
Speaker 1: tune with all the items that you've completed over the week,
Speaker 1: and it's also going to give you them insight into
Speaker 1: the next things that you're looking forward to work on
Speaker 1: for that week as well. And if you don't have
Speaker 1: anything on your plate, then you can generate interest for
Speaker 1: people to give you projects or new opportunities to use
Speaker 1: that time that you have available to drive the company forward,
Speaker 1: the department forward, and also get noticed by achieving more. Right, So,
Speaker 1: if it looks like you're being a rock star employee
Speaker 1: and you're communicating all the value you're creating for the company,
Speaker 1: it's definitely going to show. And these summaries are a
Speaker 1: great way for you to keep everyone up to date.
Speaker 1: Else it could be a situation where you're not you know,
Speaker 1: people are just gonna assume that you're not doing anything
Speaker 1: at work, or that your plate's not full, or perhaps
Speaker 1: that you are misallocating responsibilities or not prioritizing correctly. So yeah,
Speaker 1: a great summary for work will go leaps and bounds.
Speaker 1: And that's for all and that's all for remote opportunities.
Speaker 1: So a lot of my clients want the remote, particularly
Speaker 1: if they have kids, and these are the the insights
Speaker 1: and advice that I give to them to make sure
Speaker 1: that they are continuing down their path and and gaining
Speaker 1: new opportunities in their career. So I had one couple
Speaker 1: other points here in the time permitting, and so I
Speaker 1: wanted to make sure that you know in your career
Speaker 1: that you're creating feedback loops. What ends up happening is
Speaker 1: we you know, we get a set of responsibilities at work,
Speaker 1: and these responsibilities, you know, we we make sure we
Speaker 1: get them done, and we get them done effectively and efficiently, right.
Speaker 1: But a lot of times we're not getting feedback to
Speaker 1: see what we can improve or what are enhancements we
Speaker 1: can make to our processes to make sure that we're
Speaker 1: evolving and developing with the company. A lot of times
Speaker 1: people don't take us to the side and say, hey,
Speaker 1: this is something that you could be improving on. Sometimes
Speaker 1: they'll just tolerate things. So one of the things I
Speaker 1: would love for you to do, and this could be
Speaker 1: it for entrepreneurs as well, is to create a great
Speaker 1: feedback loop, so that starts with you asking for feedback.
Speaker 1: Now you can't just ask anybody for feedback because the
Speaker 1: reality is that not everybody is at your level or
Speaker 1: not everybody is knowledgeable in what you may be asking for,
Speaker 1: and so be diligent about who you will ask feedback to.
Speaker 1: But when you find that individual, make sure that you
Speaker 1: reach out to them and say, hey, I'd like your
Speaker 1: feedback on my day to day activities, or I'd like
Speaker 1: your feedback on a project that I'm getting started in
Speaker 1: and then the next thing, or maybe it's I want
Speaker 1: your feedback on my last three weeks of activity or production.
Speaker 1: How did you feel it went? Where do you think
Speaker 1: I could improve? Right, So the second component to the
Speaker 1: feedback loop is to listen to the feedback. And this
Speaker 1: is where a lot of individuals make the mistake of
Speaker 1: getting defensive or being hesitant to hear the advice. And
Speaker 1: if that's you, if that sounds like you, makes you're
Speaker 1: in this particular scenario that you're going to check your ego.
Speaker 1: Remember this is a wanted feedback, You're asking for it,
Speaker 1: and be open to it. That doesn't necessarily mean that
Speaker 1: the person is correct, but you have to be open
Speaker 1: to the feedback in order for you to assess whether
Speaker 1: or not there is a blind spot that's going to
Speaker 1: help you. If you address that blind spot, it's going
Speaker 1: to help you advance and evolve and create better productivity
Speaker 1: efficiencies or completely transform something for the better. Right. And
Speaker 1: then the third component for the feedback loop is to
Speaker 1: implement the advice. Right, So we ask for the advice,
Speaker 1: we listen to the advice, and the third component would
Speaker 1: be to implement the advice, and you implement the advice
Speaker 1: and you see how things go. Right, If things are improving,
Speaker 1: obviously the advice was probably correct or maybe had an
Speaker 1: insight you had yet found. And if the advice is
Speaker 1: not working, you could always pivot back to what you
Speaker 1: were doing before, no issue, no problem. You attempted something,
Speaker 1: it's working, or it wasn't working, or it no longer works,
Speaker 1: and now you can pivot to what you were doing before,
Speaker 1: or see if there's other bits and pieces of information
Speaker 1: to make the advice actually work for you. And so
Speaker 1: once you've done all three of these, what are you
Speaker 1: going to do? And do? Wash, rinse, repeat. You go
Speaker 1: back to the person that gave you the advice and
Speaker 1: you say, hey, I implemented the advice. Here are the results.
Speaker 1: Do you have any more feedback for me, right, And
Speaker 1: a lot of times, what that's going to generate is
Speaker 1: the visibility that number one, you're coachable, approachable, and that
Speaker 1: you're able to implement new advice into whatever business process
Speaker 1: you're doing and then innovating or evolving processes. Right. If
Speaker 1: you're asking your manager for the feedback loop, great way
Speaker 1: for them to see how you're growing, how you're developing,
Speaker 1: and maybe giving you new responsibilities. Right, new responsibilities at
Speaker 1: the end of the year, hopefully come with a nice
Speaker 1: bonus or a position increase. Right Now, feedback loops that
Speaker 1: may end up in a negative situation. For example, it
Speaker 1: didn't work, then that's you passing along feedback. We attempted
Speaker 1: this item it then it sort of created different results.
Speaker 1: Here's what here's what we plan to do next. Right,
Speaker 1: that's a good way for you to pass feedback over
Speaker 1: to your manager, to the person who's giving you the feedback,
Speaker 1: to let them know that, hey, this doesn't didn't necessarily work. However,
Speaker 1: we're putting in a new plan together, or do you
Speaker 1: have any other piece of advice that actually could work? Right,
Speaker 1: And this produces a lot of creativity, a lot of
Speaker 1: communication and people tend to stay on the same page
Speaker 1: while allowing you the opportunity to evolve in advance in
Speaker 1: your career. So creating feedback loops at work is something
Speaker 1: that I am asking a lot of my clients to do,
Speaker 1: particularly if they don't know what they're doing, how they're
Speaker 1: doing at work, or or you know, need to really
Speaker 1: gain visibility in the organization. And then I have one
Speaker 1: more point I'd like to go over today in this
Speaker 1: is a one trick that I really love to pass
Speaker 1: along and I think this is one of the best
Speaker 1: things to do for this pilot episode. So if you're
Speaker 1: confused or know of someone that's confused in their career
Speaker 1: path and what to do, or perhaps they already more clearly,
Speaker 1: they already chose what they wanted to do for work, right,
Speaker 1: they sort of they know where they'd like to go,
Speaker 1: they don't necessarily know how they're going to get there, right,
Speaker 1: So this is the ultimate hack. Now, this is why
Speaker 1: the decentralization of information is so important with the World
Speaker 1: Wide Web right what we call the Internet, And so
Speaker 1: a good way for you to see what you need
Speaker 1: to do to achieve that almighty career goal is to
Speaker 1: go on LinkedIn and just see what other people in
Speaker 1: that same field did. And this is one of the
Speaker 1: best things you can do because it gives you the roadmap,
Speaker 1: it gives you the playbook. Right. You can see very
Speaker 1: clearly how an individual went to school, what certifications they received,
Speaker 1: what degree they got, which companies they went to work for. Right.
Speaker 1: And so pick the top three people that are in
Speaker 1: the field that you truly want to advance in. Right.
Speaker 1: Maybe you want to be the director of a you know,
Speaker 1: a big network, a big medical hospital network in the
Speaker 1: city of New York, right, or in any other metropolitan area. Right.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's your career trajectory that you would like to do.
Speaker 1: You could go to LinkedIn, pick the top three individuals
Speaker 1: that have achieved that certain status, that position and see
Speaker 1: what they've done. Maybe not all the details are there,
Speaker 1: but usually with the very high up individuals in an
Speaker 1: organization or industry, they will clearly list out those high
Speaker 1: bullet points that made them get or allow them to
Speaker 1: get to where they are. Right now. You know, part
Speaker 1: of it is networking, of course, and the relationship that
Speaker 1: you build, but the other part is putting in the groundwork. Right,
Speaker 1: and so you will clearly see certifications education, work experience
Speaker 1: organizations that they volunteer at, who they're connected with. Right,
Speaker 1: it's going to give you the playbook. It's going to
Speaker 1: give you the framework of what you need to do.
Speaker 1: And if you take your top three, you can pick
Speaker 1: and choose which things are attractive to you as you
Speaker 1: pursue this almighty career trajectory. And I can tell you before,
Speaker 1: in the past, before there was LinkedIn, this path didn't
Speaker 1: really exist. Right. We had social media for fun, but
Speaker 1: LinkedIn created this opportunity for you to have insights as
Speaker 1: to how you can get to where you would like
Speaker 1: to go, particularly if you wanted to achieve something incredibly
Speaker 1: high up there in the corporate ladder or or in
Speaker 1: any organization. To be clear as well, if you're an entrepreneur,
Speaker 1: you can clearly see the trajectory of a very famous
Speaker 1: entrepreneur in the space you want to succeed in. You
Speaker 1: can find it there too, but it's a little bit
Speaker 1: easier from the career ladder perspective. And so yeah, these
Speaker 1: three bullet points I thought were a great way to
Speaker 1: start this journey of the breakthrough lab. You know, actionable,
Speaker 1: insightful advice that you can put into your daily life today,
Speaker 1: and hopefully by passing these along you can go out
Speaker 1: and create more opportunities or advance for yourself. I look
Speaker 1: forward to all the amazing guests that I will be
Speaker 1: bringing on to help all of us grow, including myself,
Speaker 1: as they share their wisdom, their achievements, or highlights even
Speaker 1: their low lights. Right, we can all learn from the disasters,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure I'll share a lot of stories with
Speaker 1: you guys where I've I didn't make the best decision
Speaker 1: later on in future episodes. But we're here to learn,
Speaker 1: we're here to achieve, and we're here to inspire others.
Speaker 1: And that's what I'm hoping to bring about with the
Speaker 1: Breakthrough Lab here. And it's this beautiful studio in New
Speaker 1: Jersey and at our wonderful studio in Stanford, Connecticut. So
Speaker 1: thank you so much for tuning in to this episode.
Speaker 1: It's the first one of many throughout the next twelve months.
Speaker 1: I look forward to creating a lot of value and
Speaker 1: I look forward to growing and listening from you as
Speaker 1: the audience. You know, feel free to leave a comment,
Speaker 1: Feel free to donate also to an organization. There's a
Speaker 1: donate button, I believe right next to this video, and yes,
Speaker 1: so the Breakthrough Lab pilot episode in the bag, and
Speaker 1: don't forget your next breakthrough starts here. Thank you.