In this special episode we’re sitting down with Raquel, the co-founder behind the Mérito Mindset.

We interview Ish, the mastermind behind the Merito Mindset. He shares his military, education, corporate, and government experience and insights.

He explains how they led to the creation of the Merito Mindset and the pursuit of professional development.

Our Organizational Guide is your sidekick to the Professional Development Planner.

The organizational guide is your resource for building organizational awareness. It provides a space for taking notes on department information, organizational chart, culture, and stakeholders.

We firmly believe that learning about the organizational structure inside and out will truly make you “dangerous.”

Soft skills, also known as behavioral competencies, are knowledge, skills, abilities, and attitudes.

They play a critical part in a professional's ability to carry out a task, activity, or function successfully and in achieving professional success and growth.

We don’t just discuss behavioral competencies; they are included in the professional development planner to validate your behavioral growth.

The Mérito Mindset Professional Development Planner is not your typical planner.

We share how our planner is great for tracking your performance, accomplishments and staying organized. It is built to help you navigate through your career.

It’s not just our tagline; we really want to put professional growth in your hands.

Today we’re going to take a deep dive into the Mérito Mindset pillar - Mature. Initially one might associate professional maturity with being polite, diplomatic, and well-spoken but there is more to professional maturity than just acting professionally. Others would say that professional maturity is associated with professional experience that is gained over the years. You can be polite and well-spoken but lack depth of knowledge and understanding simply because you have not encountered certain situations. Ish and Raquel will explore three aspects of professional maturity 1) adaptability 2)accepting constructive criticism and 3) conducting a self-assessment of what worked and what didn’t work, mainly using hindsight to serve as a guide. Keeping in mind that there are many other factors that can also contribute to professional maturity but today’s podcast will focus on these three facets.

We discuss the third pillar of the Mérito Mindset framework, grow.

We grow as professionals by developing organizational awareness.

The Grow, in the Mérito Mindset Framework focuses on gaining a holistic understanding of the organization’s operations, key players, and internal and external influential factors.

We explore the second pillar of the Mérito Mindset framework, develop.

We discuss how development is ongoing, how professional development is worth pursuing, and different ways of developing.

The Develop pillar of the Mérito Mindset Framework is all about creating your own development plan for your professional development and success.