3 Tips to Becoming an Indispensable Employee

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“The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do.  Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable.â€

 Og Mandino

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3 Tips to Becoming an Indispensable Employee

 

1.  Be Essential – Being essential is about being of the highest importance or value to a situation.  Being part of the highest value to achieving the work or your work.  With this definition in mind your job is to essentially be of high value.  High value to a task, a project, a position, and a company.  Want to keep a job and not have much worry about getting fired?  Then your goal should be to be essential.

Average is just so, well average.  We get average just about everywhere we go.  But when we see essential, talk about exciting.  Think about a time when you were served by an exceptional waiter or waitress or had a customer service issue handled with professionalism above your expectations.  It just left you feeling good and you told people about it.  It sure is nice to have people who take their jobs so seriously like their job depended on it.   Well it does and I like to thank them for the extra effort that gives me and you that warm fuzzy feeling.  That feeling when we’ve been treated like the hightest priority in their life.

2.  Be Better – Be better than what?  Be better than you thought you could be.  Be better than your co-workers, be better than your boss or company expected you to be.  This is how you can make yourself indispensable.  Forget about the large corporate practice of last in first out.  You can change that by being better and when it comes to  most small businesses it usually does not work that way.  When you are better, then you keep the job.

In a small business small changes can lead to big unforeseen problems.  So make yourself so valuable that they believe they can’t operate without you.  Make it so that they are not willing to risk keeping a bad employee over you.  Be better and that provides you with your job security.  What’s the old saying?  You don’t have to be faster than the bear, just faster than your friend.  So don’t get eaten up by a layoff.  Be better and succeed.

3.  Be self-employed – Earl Nightingale said “The biggest mistake you can make is to believe that you are working for someone else. Job security is gone.  The driving force of a career must come from the individual.  Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career.â€Â  Whether you want to believe it or not you are self-employed.  Just like an employed or self-employed person you can be fired.  Knowing you can be fired will keep you on your toes.

Keep in mind that it is you that ultimately has control of your work destiny.  By staying in the mind set of being self-employed you are more likely to show up to work, do your work well, and advance.  You see self-employed people understand that if you don’t go to work, you don’t get paid.  That in and of itself is great motivation to get up in the morning.

My work is a perfect example.  As a dentist I have to be present to produce.  I no produce, I no get paid.  I no get paid, the bills no get paid. Capiche! Get what I’m saying.  Another example is a salesperson or someone who makes a living off sales.  They don’t go out and make the call and earn the sales, they don’t receive commissions and don’t get paid.  So by believing that your are self-employed you are less likely to grow complacent with and in your work.  So keep that in mind next time someone asks you where you work.  You might want to tell them you are self-employed.

So there are 3 Tips to Becoming an Indispensable Employee.  There are many more and I would love to hear your ideas.  Please comment below and thank you!

 

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