Are U an Asset to Ur Company?

If you posses special talents and qualities that set you apart from other employees, you will be an asset to your company which will value your contributions. The bottom line in today's workplace is that your talent your employer is paying for is translated into an actual value based on the work and demonstration of potential in your performance.

Identify your talent
All if us have hidden talents and abilities. Do not go through corporate life short-changing yourself, underestimating your abilities and worse still, under-utilising and wasting your abilities. Think about what could be one thing you can do better than most other people in your company. Here are some tips to identify your talent:

• What do you yearn for?
• What gives you the greatest satisfaction at work?
• What are the skills you pick up in the quickest time?
• Which are of your work have you shown excellence in?

Reflect on what you are good at, which need not be directly related to your job scope. For example:

• Training, coaching, mentoring others.
• Your own natural abilities and skill.
• Activities pursued outside working hours.

Some question to ask yourself when you want to find out if a work performance area is your talent:

• Do you always know how to do it?
• Do you get better at it after some time?
• Do other applaud you after you do it?
• Do you feel pride and pleasure when you do it?

What does "high potential" mean?
You can demonstrate two kinds of potential. The first is to improve effectiveness in your current role, and the second is the potential to move to a higher, more complex work level.
Just as we gauge a company's performance, an individual's performance can be judged by the same way:

• Demonstrate competencies or capabilities of the next level of business performance.
• Consistently demonstrates exceptional performance over an extended period of time.
• Consistently demonstrates drive, influence and judgment.
• Achieve business results.
• Has significant capability and capacity to take on more duties.

So when your talent consistently translate into higher actual value of work or demonstrate potential in performance, that makes you a valuable asset to your company. And you, as an asset, will also grow in value as you develop your talent. - Source: ST/ANN

* Article by Chia Weng Lee, a consulting partner to the Results-Based Leadership Group.