"What do you do if you come to work and find out that your boss has been fired? How do you make certain that you are not next to go? "
The above was a question asked in LinkedIn.
The following is my response:-
Let's get the fact straight. Job is not assured in the current situation and will not be guaranteed in future. Organization continue to change and restructure in order to stay alive. We become the pawn in the change process.
The key thing that an organization may consider in retaining you is what value can you bring to the new organization. The question is what value are you bringing to the organization at present and what value have you brought to the organization in the immediate past. This contribution of yours would have registered in the minds of management team, which can be useful when they scope around the employees on whom to keep in and whom to keep out of the gate.
If you are not sure of the value you are bringing to the organization , you may want to start talking to some people and get an insight of what they think your main contribution are and why they think you are a valuable person to the organization. This will give an early indication of your strength. You should keep this strength in mind and harness this to provide more value the organization.
I need to expand on the concept of bringing value to the organization. You need to have clear understanding of the organization business strategies and goals and your actions must be tailored to providing support to the achievement of this goals.
I have talked about asking feedback from your managers about your strength. You may also use SWOT analysis to have a better understand your strengths. I will advice you to read Marcus Buckingham's Now Discover your Strength and Go Put Your Strength to Work. This will give you an additional information to find your strength and start harnessing it to be a very valuable member of the organization.
If you have done the above, you will have less worries of loosing your job. As, I said, this not a guarantee but you probably would have pushed your name down the list of possible people to be fired. Even, if you are fired, you still can fallback on your strength to find your way back in another organization.
So before you becomes the statistics it is good to take action.
The new CEO will be very stupid to have fired someone valuable like you.
The above was a question asked in LinkedIn.
The following is my response:-
Let's get the fact straight. Job is not assured in the current situation and will not be guaranteed in future. Organization continue to change and restructure in order to stay alive. We become the pawn in the change process.
The key thing that an organization may consider in retaining you is what value can you bring to the new organization. The question is what value are you bringing to the organization at present and what value have you brought to the organization in the immediate past. This contribution of yours would have registered in the minds of management team, which can be useful when they scope around the employees on whom to keep in and whom to keep out of the gate.
If you are not sure of the value you are bringing to the organization , you may want to start talking to some people and get an insight of what they think your main contribution are and why they think you are a valuable person to the organization. This will give an early indication of your strength. You should keep this strength in mind and harness this to provide more value the organization.
I need to expand on the concept of bringing value to the organization. You need to have clear understanding of the organization business strategies and goals and your actions must be tailored to providing support to the achievement of this goals.
I have talked about asking feedback from your managers about your strength. You may also use SWOT analysis to have a better understand your strengths. I will advice you to read Marcus Buckingham's Now Discover your Strength and Go Put Your Strength to Work. This will give you an additional information to find your strength and start harnessing it to be a very valuable member of the organization.
If you have done the above, you will have less worries of loosing your job. As, I said, this not a guarantee but you probably would have pushed your name down the list of possible people to be fired. Even, if you are fired, you still can fallback on your strength to find your way back in another organization.
So before you becomes the statistics it is good to take action.
The new CEO will be very stupid to have fired someone valuable like you.
