Professionals most want new skills

Here are the top five professional goals people in New Zealand said they want to achieve in 2013:

1.Professional development through learning new skills (55 percent)

2.Network more/build more professional relationships (47 percent)

3.Get new job/career (26 percent)

4.Get promoted or move into leadership role (21 percent)

5.Be more confident and engaged in client, customer and/or team meetings (20 percent).

For people in New Zealand, “financial security and growth” (41 percent) was the one thing they said that they most wanted to achieve with their professional goal this year. “Better work/life balance” (31 percent) was the second most common response followed by “stronger workplace performance” (24 percent).