When Will You No Longer Be Needed?
10 Jun
This post could save you your job. Have you checked the 'use by date' on your current role at work? Did you even know that there was one?
There's a date, not too far away and getting closer, when your role in it's current form will no longer exist. You, as you are right now in that role, will no longer be required.
Same applies to your business or organisation. A time will come when it's services, products, processes, people and tactics that once worked become obsolete.
What to do About it
The challenge, I think, is becoming open to the idea that this 'use by date' might be much sooner than you expect. And between now and then there will be a number of waves of change that hit you. One after the other, knocking you back a little each time. Which is why you need to 'add preservatives' to your own value, and to your business. And your organisation needs to do exactly the same. Whatever was responsible for yours or your organisations past success may no longer apply. Even top talent can quickly become irrelevant if it doesn't stay self-aware and self-update – becoming adaptable to new circumstances.
Unfortunately, many people and businesses seem to tick along enjoying the current state of the market and not adding any preservatives until it's too late.
It's easy to cling on too tightly to the idea that what once worked will continue to work. "It worked before, it can work again!" People like to cling on to what they know. It's harder, but more useful to realise that your tactics must continuously be updated. And once you realise that, you need to go out there and find, learn or create and try out new tactics to see what works now.
The best way to add preservatives to yourself and your organisation is to keep up to date, and keeping thinking ahead. Keep learning, moving, watching the market, thinking, innovating, and adapting, and most of all change before you have to!
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Hello! I'm Mark Moore and I help employers and employees maximise their value to each other.
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