Raise Your Visibility & Value: What Is Good Performance?

While it is inevitable that the dreaded performance appraisal as the sole measurement of your contributions to your organization will cease to exist in its current format (insert golf clap), some form of performance measurement will continue to exist. One reason is that roles within organizations where value creation falls into a category called “individual value” will need a performance management system to measure how foundational activities impact the organization.
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Raise Your Visibility & Value: Visibility Accelerator #4 – Interact with Others


Raise Your Visibility & Value highlights seven visibility accelerators. Our fourth visibility accelerator is “Interact with Others.” Learn how to engage with colleagues in your organization and industry one-to-one.

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Ed’s new book, Raise Your Visibility & Value: Uncover the Lost Art of Connecting on the Job is now available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Please check it out and share the word!

Raise Your Visibility & Value: Does Visibility Vary by Organizations and Industry?

A common question from folks who have read my new book Raise Your Visibility & Value: Uncover the Lost Art of Connecting on the Job has to do with ways to be visible.

While I provide dozens of ideas on how to be more visible in your organization and industry through the seven visibility accelerators, the ways you can be more visible in your own organization and industry varies dramatically.
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Raise Your Visibility & Value: Visibility Accelerator #3 – Be Responsive


Raise Your Visibility & Value highlights seven visibility accelerators. Our third visibility accelerator is “Be Responsive.” Learn how important it is for you to get back to your colleagues and foster progress.

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Ed’s new book, Raise Your Visibility & Value: Uncover the Lost Art of Connecting on the Job is now available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Please check it out and share the word!

Raise Your Visibility & Value: Raising Your Value in Your Organization

In the Raise Your Visibility and Value model, raising your value is defined as follows:

You raise your value with activities that connect individual contributions with business performance.

Similar to most of your colleagues, you spend little time raising your value. You are more likely trapped at your desk working hard to be a good performer and deliver what is expected of you as defined by your boss or your job description. Your boss’s environment does not allow her to focus value creation and most job descriptions do not identify ways that your role can create value for your organization.
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Raise Your Visibility & Value: Ask the Million Dollar Question


Every leader should be asking her colleagues “What 1 – 2 things can I be doing differently in order to be more successful?” This helps build relationships and your leadership presence. In this video, listen and watch as Ed talks about the importance of asking that million dollar question.

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Ed’s new book, Raise Your Visibility & Value: Uncover the Lost Art of Connecting on the Job is now available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Please check it out and share the word!

Raise Your Visibility & Value: Do You Have a Reputation for Having a Negative Attitude?

Do your colleagues perceive you as having a negative attitude? Here are a few suggestions to help manage that reputation:

  • Partner with your manager on ways in which you can improve your attitude at work. A perception of having a negative attitude at work is not a good foundation upon which to build your visibility.
  • Work with a career coach who can help you explore the origination of your negative attitude and create strategies to improve your attitude.
  • Read a book (e.g., Success through a Positive Mental Attitude by Napoleon Hill) or an article on improving a negative attitude.
  • Take some “you” time to think about how you can improve your attitude. Sometimes a break from work can help improve a negative attitude or the perception of one.

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Ed’s new book, Raise Your Visibility & Value: Uncover the Lost Art of Connecting on the Job is now available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Please check it out and share the word!

Raise Your Visibility & Value: Don’t Have a Positive Reputation in Your Organization?

In continuing to look at some suggestions for overcoming hurdles people face when managing their reputations:

HURDLE:

I do not think I have a positive reputation in my organization.

SUGGESTIONS:

  • Partner with your manager or your Human Resources business partner on ways in which you can improve your reputation at work.
  • Read a book (e.g., How to Build Your Reputation by Rob Brown) or an article about reputation management.
  • Identify a colleague whom you believe does have a positive reputation. Schedule a time with her to talk about your efforts to improve your reputation and ideas she may have on how to do so.
  • Craft a new reputation statement and begin to focus on your attitude, behaviors, and production. It is never too late to build a good reputation.

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Ed’s new book, Raise Your Visibility & Value: Uncover the Lost Art of Connecting on the Job is now available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Please check it out and share the word!

Raise Your Visibility & Value: Managing Your Reputation with Your Confidential “Inner Circle”

Over the next few weeks, we’ll offer some helpful suggestions for overcoming typical hurdles people face when managing their reputations in their organization and industry.

HURDLE:

I do not demonstrate a positive attitude with my confidential “inner circle” (work friends with whom I can share anything).

SUGGESTIONS:

  • Read a book (e.g. Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking) or an article about building and illustrating a positive attitude. From your reading, identify two or three activities you can do to make progress in building a more positive attitude.
  • Ask for feedback from one or more trusted colleagues on your attitude at work. Give your colleagues permission to be candid in the spirit of helping you become more effective.
  • Observe your behavior during your next interaction with your “inner-circle.” Refrain from comments which could be perceived as negative.
  • Create a goal to focus only on the positive when you are with your “inner-circle.” Watch for how much positive conversation is occurring and remember how easy it is to get “sucked-in” to negative conversations.

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Ed’s new book, Raise Your Visibility & Value: Uncover the Lost Art of Connecting on the Job is now available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Please check it out and share the word!

Raise Your Visibility & Value: Leaders Need to Show Empathy

Leaders today need to show more empathy to their colleagues. When you demonstrate empathy, your ideas are more likely to be listened to and respected.

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Ed’s new book, Raise Your Visibility & Value: Uncover the Lost Art of Connecting on the Job is now available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Please check it out and share the word!