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.
Get to Know Your Company
It is important that you get to know your company and the business that you work for. This can help you to talk about your company and what they offer from a Business Development perspective, but it can also help you work out where you fit in and where you can add (the most) value to the business.
Start with the basics. Get to know your company, your company’s mission and value statements, their goals and their business plan. You can use your career journal (and The First 90 Days Book). This information can then be used to make decisions around customer engagement, business development, making sales, career development and adding value.
This can help facilitate conversations when it comes to adding value (and getting support or resource for those extra projects).
You should also familiarize yourself with the structure of the organisation you work for, the financials and any reports that the company issues about the business (even if you are not in a senior role).
Study and learn as much as you can.
You career journal can help you record and explore this information as well as generate ideas of what you can do to innovate or add value (no matter how small) based on what you are reading and learning.