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1. Become more relevant in
your current work
environment.
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2. Why worry about being relevant at work?
Being relevant and an employee of choice leads to a credible career profile and
gives you a better chance of being paid at the top end in your job compared to
market peers.
“The greatest challenge we have as we become successful in our careers is
not to rest on our laurels, never feel like we’ve done it”
We succeed in our careers by being relevant to the organisations we work for. They
expect value from us, co-workers expect collaboration and management expects to
see productivity, care and diligence in us managing our daily work activities.
Staying relevant and becoming the talent of choice in an organisation takes effort
and it must be front of mind every day. Dedicate 30 minutes every week and review
the points below; you will gain personal career insights and be able to see what
adjustments you need to make to be that employee of choice.

3. 1. Have Relevant Business Conversations
People that lead conversations that are in the present and address the reality of the
situation have a significant influence on business decision making and get included
in shaping the future.
Have you sat in a meeting listing to a conversation and thinking “How is this
relevant to what we are doing?” Many people just talk for the sake of talking and
don’t realise that their discussion is not relevant at that point. Being one of those
people just exposes you to co-workers seeing you as disconnected from
reality. And if you have non-relevant discussions with senior people, you are
eroding your credibility and chances of growth.
Listen to your own conversations. Are they relevant to the business or are you just
talking for the sake of talking?

4. 2. Demonstrate Collaboration
Don’t become a ‘hostage of yourself’. So many people get caught up in their own
activities and ego’s.
There is nothing wrong with having and ego and driving hard at your own delivery,
but doing so to the detriment of your co-workers will eventually shun you out form
the organisation. How many times have you heard people say: “What a talented
person, but he/she is just not a team player”. I‘ve heard it many times and I‘ve
seen many people lose credibility and position relevance by becoming their own
hostages.

5. 3. Work on the Right Things
There is nothing quite as useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be
done at all.
Many people fall into this trap, really working hard, delivering a piece of work just to
hear that they are an average or poor performer. Make sure you only work on the
right things and delete those activities that don’t add value from your mind, activity
list and certainly don’t delegate them; you just set yourself and your team up for
failure. Becoming irrelevant has a lot to do with finding more effective ways to do
inefficient things.

6. 4. Demonstrate Commercial Awareness
For a business to succeed in the long run, it has no option but to remain a profitable
going concern.
Show that you care about every dollar in the business, make it your business to
stamp out unnecessary spend and always ensure you consider a better return on
the money you spend. Demonstrating commercial awareness is certainly an ‘eye
catcher’ and senior leaders give a lot of respect to those that show they care about
the business being profitable.

7. 5. Demonstrate Reliability
Reliability is about who you are and not what you do.
Being reliable is being able to constantly perform at the right level and being able to
function under unexpected challenges. It’s about being level headed, in touch with
reality and always being able to lend a helping hand without being asked to help. It
means you do what you said you would do, delivering on your promises. Reliability
also extends to people experiencing your conversations as being mindful, accurate
and without a hidden agenda. Senior people will never consider promoting a
unreliable person.

8. 6. Demonstrate Endurance during Tough Times
Only those committed to pulling through in tough times and working through
unchartered waters will thrive, grow stronger and be more relevant than ever.
No business is without tough challenges and giving up mid-way and not seeing
through the tough jobs exposes you as a possible weak employee. Work through
the challenge at hand, tackle tough things ‘head on’ and keep your emotions
intact. Don’t panic, seek advice, and show that you are in control and capable of
dealing with the situation. Be especially cognisant of those tough challenges where
all levels in the organisation are involved; the exposure of people with low
endurance is so much more visible.

9. 7. Demonstrate Good Judgement
The more you use a particular approach for making sense of things, the more
things seem to fit your approach.
Good judgement comes to those that are true to themselves, in touch with reality
and who know the business well. Making a few poor judgement calls erodes
whatever credibility you have and in many cases have led to people being fired. It’s
best to seek further context if you aren’t sure about a judgement call on something
important. You will gain a lot more peer respect by asking for help during a
complex judgement call and making the right judgement than being over proud of
your ego and getting the judgement call wrong.

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