In every organisation there are people who merely occupy positions and those who multiply value. The difference is usually their mindset. Your qualifications may get you the job, but it is the value you bring on board that will determines your advancement. Wherever you find yourself, leave every assignment better than you found it. Solve problems, improve systems and serve people with excellence.
Your career is not determined by how long you have worked; it is determined by how much value you have created.
Have you ever thought why people who work in the same organisation, for the same bosses, and within the same policies and conditions, produce different results? The difference most times is the value they bring on board. Please kindly and sincerely respond to this questions: Are you valuable? Sincerely, how valuable are you? If you were the boss, will you promote yourself, given the way you work and the things you do at work? Do you sincerely think that your organisation will be profitable if everyone worked just like you do?
A value-adding employee will adopt a value adding mindset, which is the habit of constantly looking for ways to improve people, processes and results. It asks, “How can I make this better?” instead of what is the minimum required of me? Or just, what is in it for me? It is having habit that is always focused on how you can make a situation better than you met it, and it involves solving a problem, serving others, rather than just getting the job done.
