13/11/2020
Have you ever been in a situation, when you felt insecure about your role or you feared to be furloughed or laid off?
In such situations, what do you do?
Just doing your job better, wouldn’t guarantee you a safety net in hard times. You need a new, better strategy.
After being in a field for several years, any professional starts developing expertise. At this stage, investing in doing more of what you’re good at will yield only incremental improvements.
If you are looking to become invaluable to your organization, the surest way is to add value to people around you, more importantly to people from other adjacent functional areas.
In doing so, you communicate to your superiors that you not only understand but can also work cross-functionally. This will make you a valuable asset for the leaders in your company.
So where do you start?
Recently, the World Economic Forum listed a key skill, to master, that is increasingly being asked by employers is Problem-solving skills.
Why problem-solving?
Because it works across domains. It doesn’t matter from which field you are coming from.
But if you understand the methods of problem-solving, you can solve problems in your own field, but more importantly, you can understand and approach problems in other fields as well.
And this is the surest way to become irreplaceable.
