Creating New Business

When you’re only given tactical projects and unrewarding work, it’s hard to demonstrate your value to senior management. Here are three strategies to be an impact player and demonstrate your value.

What makes you more visible and valued at work are the really important projects. But how do you find the projects senior decision-makers care about? Here are three questions to identify the important projects to increase your visibility, value and impact.

You might think being smart, strategic, technically skilled, or having the best network of connections makes you a great collaboration partner. While all of these are helpful, there’s another quality that stands out above the rest.

Being underutilized is demoralizing, frustrating and a waste of your unique strengths and skills. Instead of waiting for an opportunity to shine, use this skill to be more visible to decision-makers, expand your influence and find joy in what you do.

As you progress in your career, being excellent at your job is not enough to guarantee advancement. If you want to be seen as ready for the next level and be recognized for the value you bring, you need to stand out by being a rainmaker. Here‘s how.

Even though hard work is something we praise in the workplace, more isn’t always better. The next time you have the urge to simply “work harder” to generate results at the next level, remember these three simple steps.

It’s easy to feel trapped in a job that doesn’t use the best parts of you or where you feel undervalued for what you do. Discover how you can take the role you have at work and make it more motivating for yourself.

It’s easy to feel trapped and desperate in your career without options. Since you can’t count on someone giving you options, here are three strategies for creating options for yourself so you never feel trapped in your career.

When you work hard on something and still don’t get great results, it’s natural to feel frustrated, avoid the activity or even stop trying. But often, you can’t. Use this 3-step process to make the changes needed to get the results you want.

The story of Bart Weetjens and his rats shows that sometimes the best achievements come from combining various “idea germs” and playing around with them until they click into place.