The onset of a recession has caused many people to have to worry about their job security. Keeping your job is enough to worry about in itself, but at the end of the year is the time that you most are evaluated based on the work that they completed for the year. Now, many employees do not want to seem to burden their employers by asking for an increase in pay during times where jobs are scarce and money for companies is hard to come by. However, companies want to retain their good talent, especially those who produce results and will usually try to work with employees to increase their compensation.
Employers can easily be compared to the average consumer. Most consumers typically like to get the best bang for the buck, and if they are going to pay premium price for a product, they want to make sure that it will last and continue to be worth the price.
Below are some of the principles I follow to try to get recognition at work:
- Think outside the box to fix a problem.
- Always try to come up with three solutions to a problem.
- After determining a solution for a problem presented to you, think about whether or not it is the most efficient way to solve the problem.
- Do the work no one else wants to do.
- Oftentimes, my management likes to request a volunteer to do an extra project before assigning it out to an employee. I volunteer for those requests frequently.
- Shows initiative and willingness to work.
- Increases your net value to the company.
- Document the value of your accomplishments (as they happen).
- Many times people document what they do instead of how what they did positively impacted the company.
- Document the results of what you did and have it improved a process to the company.
- Use a format that is similar to listing your accomplishments on a resume
- Example: Provided great customer service to walk customer through initial setup of product resulting in less call volume for initial setup of product.
- Each time you complete a project or receive a kudos for a job that you had involvement in, archive the email under an "Accomplishments 2009" folder and write it down in a notebook. I use "Google Notebooks" for this.
- Expand your network at work.
- Companies want employees that help create a comfortable work environment.
- Always try to be nice to your colleagues as well as help out those who are struggling.
- It may even be worth it to hang out with colleagues outside of your job to create trust as well as receive help from your colleagues when you are in a bind.
- Increase your net worth
- In terms of accounting, you are either going to be a net asset or a net liability to your company.
- The company can make this judgement by determining the amount of assets you bring to the table versus the amount of liabilities caused by the company.
- Examples of Assets of an Employee:
- Employee Productivity
- Employee customer relations
- Employee skills
- Examples of Liabilities of an Employee:
- Paycheck paid to the employee
- Benefits provided to the employee
- It is always a good recommendation to make sure that your employer sees good value from your performance at work by your contribution to the company being worth more than what they pay you for it.
- Less complaining/More resolutions
- Unfortunately, most work environments are not perfect. There will always be something to complain about. Rather than complaining to your boss over things that cannot change, try to deal with them.
- If there is something that needs to be changed, instead of just complaining alone, present a solution to resolve the problem.
What are some of the other recommendations you have to get the recognition you deserve at work? Leave them in the comments below.
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