Right Time To Enhance Your Management Skills And Market Value

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After working in an organization for around a decade, you started feeling that you are accustomed with your current organization and established a special position in your company. You have mastered all areas of your job profile, company started considering you a critical resource and involving you in company’s important decisions. It sounds as if this is what each one of us dream for but there is a darker side to it. Don’t look on the short term achievements, look from the long run perspective. Is this the right time to enhance your management skills or enhance your qualification?

Ask the below listed questions to yourself to know the answer

  • You are working on the same profile from last 4-5 years.
  • You have excelled in your current work, and you have reached a dead end with very little scope to grow.
  • Your market value is decreasing day by day.
  • You are doing the repeated activity most of the time.
  • Your company is still working on the outdated technologies and old systems, whereas everyone else is using latest technology.
  • You don’t have the skills and/or relevant experience you need to compete with outside world.
  • You have not contributed anything major to add value to your company from a long time.
  • You love your team as they respect you and you are scared of not getting same treatment elsewhere.
  • Your team respect you for your position and not for your talent and skills.

If the answer to most of the questions in the above list is a “yes”, then it is the right time for you to enhance your knowledge and skills.

Some tips to get out of this situation

  • Work in the field of increasing your general awareness: With everyday changing world and technology you need to keep pace with it. Read e-books, related Blogs and subscribe for monthly magazines of your area of interest, meet different people of with related knowledge, try to build a healthy relationships with them. Even if people try to ignore you look for a way to learn from them. Especially in case of companies with multiple functions like “operations, finance, IT, Human Resources, and Business Excellence, there is wide scope to learn and practice internally. To know about the process and functions of other departments you must have good network in the organization.
  • Enhance your skills by education and training: Many organizations conducts corporate trainings, check out such opportunities in your organization. If you are planning to enhance your knowledge try to make best from the opportunities available to you.
  • Explore options to improve your market value: You can improve your market value by doing a certification which carries high credibility globally.  PMI offers many certifications, which are the best way to test yourself. Depending on your area of interest you can select one and go for it.
  • Increase your professional network:  Through internet you can be linked to as many professional as you want to. There are large number of online communities, groups and followers, where people with similar profile can interact with other each other, build their professional networks and investigate potential career opportunities.

Even if you are getting timely promotions and appreciation from your senior management, still you are best judge. Think honestly and ask to your “Do you really deserve it, have you really contributed for it?”. At times people stops thinking critically for themselves, resulting in wrong decision like continuing on the same profile with the same employer for years and years until, they become the target of recessions and downsizing or mass layoffs.

About Aditi Malhotra

Aditi Malhotra is the Content Marketing Manager at Whizlabs. Having a Master in Journalism and Mass Communication, she helps businesses stop playing around with Content Marketing and start seeing tangible ROI. A writer by day and a reader by night, she is a fine blend of both reality and fantasy. Apart from her professional commitments, she is also endearing to publish a book authored by her very soon.

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