This month we are doing an extra quick tips series on how to add value at work. You are not limited by your job description. By “adding value” you can help your company meet their goals as well as also advancing your own career. Adding value to your role, your team, your boss and your company should form part of your goals/objectives to help you meet your career goals. It can improve your reputation, boost your chances of promotion, and from a personal perspective increase your job satisfaction.
Throughout this series, we will be doing a round-up of different ways that you can add value and how your career journal can help you plan and take action.
Reduce Costs for your Company
There are always efficiencies that can be made. This might be within the business or this might be in relation to your own time management/productivity – after all, time is money!
Whatever your role you can look for ways to help your company to run as efficiently as possible.
Consider:
- Are there any savings that can be made?
- Any processes that can be streamlined?
- Any skills gaps that need to be addressed?
- Where do you lose time and how can it be saved?
If you are able to develop ways of improving productivity and increasing efficiencies, you are adding value by saving the company’s valuable resources (time or money).