10X2=Promoted! Identify 10 Achievements a Year to Share

This continues our series outlining how the 10X2 philosophy helps you get better assignments

Barbara leaned about using home run or value statements with her supervisor and in her annual performance appraisals. She commented that understanding the concept caused her to begin looking for a specific opportunity to excel each month. She said that seeking opportunities allowed her to see things more clearly. Setting the goal to share one achievement each month encouraged her to act on the goal. Her goal quickly turned into habit, and habit into normal behavior. All because she set the goal to share a value statement each month.

Opportunities for Improvements Abound

Work offers excellent opportunities for improvement. You may better comprehend the opportunities by dividing them into four categories. Improvements to productivity, efficiency, effectiveness, or quality. For example:

• Productivity
  • Increase how fast you work
  • Help co-workers work faster
  • Discover how to reduce number of steps required to process work
  • Move workstations closer together to reduce lost time
• Efficiency
  • Use less money to get work done
  • Reduce the time required to complete assignments
  • Maintain the same costs, but increase productivity
  • Involve fewer people in the task
• Effectiveness
  • Focus on the essentials of your job
  • Reduce your time spent on distractions
  • Manage your time to the most important tasks
• Quality
  • Reduce the number of unacceptable finished products
  • Redesign your processes to ensure no flaws
  • Implement the 14 steps for total quality outlined by W. Edwards Deming

Reasons You May Resist Accomplishment

Sometimes, you may resist seeing the opportunities around you. You may see them, but hesitate to act on the opportunities. You may hesitate for many reasons. For example,

• The abundance of possibilities may overwhelm you, paralyzing your ability to act
• You may hesitate for fear of setting a higher standard of expectations
• You don’t want to overstep your responsibilities, annoy co-workers, or upset your supervisor.
• You may have improved your work without coordinating with your supervisor of the company and received negative consequences for doing so
• You don’t care about improving your career

Wednesday we highlight how to structure your value statements to impress management