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.
Improve the Efficiency of a Protocol or Procedure
Just because something is working, doesn’t mean it can’t be improved. This applies to almost every routine, tedious, and repetitive task you do. Therefore, a great way to add value is to improve or standardise or make these routine tasks more efficient.
Anything that can be streamlined into a series of definite tasks can be automated. Even manual tasks can be streamlined if you examine the process carefully, and eliminate unnecessary steps.
Examples:
- Reports
- Presentations
- Standard letters or forms
- Minutes of the meeting
- Quotations
- Contracts
- Invoicing and billing
Think about what you can streamline and automate in your job to make it easier and more efficient so that you can spend your time where you can truly add value or on otherwise key and important tasks.