4 survival skills to recession-proof your job
April 30, 2009 by admin
Filed under Getting Ahead
More pink slips over the horizon. According to Challenger Gray, the outplacement firm and Christmas, 1 million more job cuts likely in 2009.
However, there is a ray of light among the dark clouds of recession, says company CEO, John Challenger, and it is this: layoffs can be good news, in a strange way.
“When companies are reducing, people often leave less successful, making more space for the performers than assuming that it could not have been to them before. Only those companies can afford to have their best people working, if they are to survive, “he says.
In a nutshell: Show your star power. Take on projects that make you reach higher. Request more responsibility and prove that you are indispensable.
Do not sit in a corner waiting for the ax to fall on its position. Use these 4 tips for recession-proof your job.
1. Master Office Politics: Spend a night to draw the structure of your organization, X’ing people who have been in those circles moved to the arrows on the places that have landed. Analyze and identify which has promoted its friends and allies. You’ll find patterns and soon they’ll be on the rise too – a card here, a cup of coffee, a quiet word to someone in a high position. Ensure their promotion and job security with a deep understanding of its political structure of the company.
2. Master Business Finance: the use of experts and business surveys mean professional executives to evaluate their projects financially viable. Calculate a project proposal of the financial impact on revenue, profits, productivity and customer relations. Calculate the amount of initial investment and minimal maintenance. Being able to determine the impact of a project on market share, product quality, the time it takes to develop a product or service, product failure and rejection rates and customer satisfaction and service.
3. Master Business Etiquette and Protocol: All labor relations are unwritten rules that everyone is expected to continue, although no one specifically described. For the heat transfer and trust in the fast gathering with their employees, colleagues and clients, gain their trust. But if wrong signals conversation, you can drive away allies and win a reputation as a socially awkward. Stay in tune with his management firm on the label. Present as in step with the management team and avoid any violation of its label protocol.
4. Master Business Negotiation: In your company layoffs increase, collect extra work to alleviate the emptiness of the workers. Try to get to projects that help to climb the corporate ladder and select tasks with a highly visible impact on the bottom line. Then, keep track of the extra work it has undertaken. Instead of an application or additional benefits now, plan ahead. Suggest that some benefits that you earn over the next six to 12 months. Work with your boss to set production goals and agreed that if the targets are exceeded, you accumulate some rewards. With knowledge of business negotiation techniques, could further your career for the dismissals and negotiate a higher salary later in the road.