Last week, I started a mini-series on how to get promoted in the workplace. The first key is likeability. Likeability is not personality; it’s character. It’s behaviour. It’s how you choose to relate to other people. If people don’t like you, they’re not going to trust you, and they certainly won’t promote you.
The second key is capacity.
Capacity is the potential for growth and the desire to keep learning.
What is your potential for growth?
Are you going to read any books in the next year? Are you going to take any seminars? Are you going to grow? Are you going to develop any skills? Are you going to learn any relationship skills? Or will you just be the same 10 years from today as you are right now?
If you have capacity, then you can increase in competence and you can handle greater responsibility in your work.
So, are you willing to learn and grow and develop your capacity?
That means you don’t insist on doing the same thing you had always done, but instead try new methods and come up with new ideas. You grew in capacity by stretching yourself and continuously learning and growing.
All leaders are learners. The moment you stop learning, you stop leading. Growing businesses requires growing people. The moment the people stop growing, the business can’t grow.
Is that business, that organization prospering because you’re there? Do you have that kind of capacity?
If you stop learning new skills and say, “That’s all I need to know,” you’re limiting your capacity. But if you keep learning, you’ll keep growing. But I have to caution you, increasing your capacity often takes initiative and sometimes even sacrifice.
So, what are some practical steps you can take this week to learn a new skill or gain new knowledge about your job or your field of work?
Let me know by leaving me a reply below.
Excerpt taken from Daily Hope by Rick Warren.
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