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- Good morning, good life.
Welcome back to AmyTV where we come together
to help you go after the life you want.
This episode of AmyTV is in partnership
with our friends at SHRM.
Whether you're a business professional who wants to
level up her career or a business owner
who wants to be her client's favorite resource,
we have to show up to do our best work all the time so that
we can stay in the game to go after the life we want.
We can't really say that there's any such thing
as job security because the economy can pretty much
do whatever it wants to us at any time.
Thank you 2020 for proving that.
But there are some habits that we can keep up with
that help us to be indispensable in our work,
always in demand, and quite frankly, workin' it like a boss.
So today I wanna share seven of those habits
that if you build them you will achieve
that level of desirability that will help to
make you indispensable at your work.
Habit number one, staying educated beyond your expertise.
You know what no one wants to hear?
"That's not my job."
First of all, most people don't need that briefing,
thank you for sharing it,
but second of all, that's gonna get you very far.
Just being an expert in what you do or what you've been
hired to do is only gonna take you down that road.
Seeing yourself grow in different areas
and be able to try new things and achieve new heights
means expanding on what you know and getting educated.
How are you going to do that?
Well, you're super smart and indispensable,
so finding resources that can help you is really important,
and that's why in this video we're
working with our friends at SHRM.
SHRM is dedicated to helping you understand
the real workplace issues that might
come your way alongside of your work,
whether it's COVID-19 issues that you need
to be briefed on how to handle differently in your workplace
or even if you just need a quick reference
to resources, tools, and examples.
SHRM has things like employee handbooks, HR guidelines,
how-tos, job descriptions, or even interview questions.
Going above and beyond means being a better learner,
which is why I particularly like their virtual learning
so that you can constantly have an immersive course
available to you with the actual pieces of advice
that you need to be better in your workplace in your role.
Every summer SHRM has an annual conference and expo,
but in tandem with this it started a digital series
called Tune in Tuesday which features monthly talks
with leading experts on must-know topics where you can
chat with your peers and contribute to conversations
in real time during these really interactive episodes.
They're on the second Tuesday of every
month when you go to annual.shrm.org.
Make sure to check out more details about that.
There's a link in the description for you to
find out more about the SHRM membership
and all the resources that they have available to you.
If you wanna be indispensable you have to know
more than just your own expertise.
This is where your employers or your bosses
or even your clients if you're the business owner
will find value in keeping you around.
The second great habit for being
indispensable is to not wait to be asked.
Oftentimes we see people who start
a job or start a business and they think
I'll just wait until I'm told what to do,
but you'll mostly find that the success that happens
in your career is when you take initiative
and go after the career that you want.
When you see opportunities to improve what is happening
or a process that could be fine-tuned,
not waiting to be asked and simply looking for ways
to make things better is a massively valuable trait
whether you're for hire as an employee or as a business.
What's really interesting, the psychology of this,
in my own experience anyone that I've worked with
that kind of acted like they needed
to be asked in order to do something,
I ultimately had in the back of my head that they
may not be capable of doing it even if I did ask
because it might take me too long to educate them.
But the people who take initiative
and the people who at least give it a shot,
even if they fail a little bit forward,
I'm much more likely to say oh my gosh, okay,
well, your head's in the game,
so let me show you how exactly to do
it so we can go forward together.
The biggest thing people want to see is that initiative,
so when you wait to be asked to do something
that is the complete opposite of what is needed.
Don't be in the habit of waiting to be asked.
Habit number three, don't keep score.
This is just a good tip in general for all of life.
When we keep score, when we say, well,
I did that favor for Susie in the next cubicle,
why can't she do me a favor,
or I helped this guy get introduced to a new client,
why can't he hire me, or why can't he send me a client?
When we do that kind of keeping score
we're losing track of the big picture.
If you're trying to go exponentially bigger,
you're not gonna count the
one-to-one-to-one-to-one wins, okay?
It's not gonna work that way.
You need to shine and you need to shine bright.
If you spend too much time trying to make sure
that you're getting payback for the nice thing that you did,
which is still advancing you no matter how much
you feel you haven't been paid back for it,
it's just not going to move the needle for you.
Being in the habit of keeping score
means being in the habit of being petty,
being in the habit of not being
somebody that does good business.
Habit number four, do what you say you will do.
One of the hardest things for all of us is saying no,
but when we say yes we have to
stick with what we say yes to.
We will find later that we wish we said yes to less things,
and then, we will,
but the things that we say yes to,
showing up when you say you'll be somewhere, being on time,
these are the things that you become remembered for.
If I ask Amy to do something and she says she will,
I want the brand of Amy to be I know she's gonna show up.
I know that she will be there for me because she doesn't
say she's gonna do something and then not do it.
This also happens in content when you tell a community,
hey, I'm gonna post every Wednesday for you.
They wanna see those Wednesday uploads.
It's a trust.
So no matter if you're talking to your boss
and telling them when you're gonna show up
or if you're talking to your client
and telling them when you're going to show up,
be where you say you're going to be
when you're supposed to be there.
If you can't, don't lie, don't embellish,
don't go crazy, just say something came up.
You don't have to apologize profusely unless maybe
it's in need of a great apology profusely,
but if you over-apologize or over-explain early in the game
because you can't own up to something,
first of all, you're kinda wasting a lot of bandwidth
on something that it probably doesn't even need it,
and second of all,
it's gonna be boy who cried wolf after a period of time
if you constantly have all these big, big things
that are keeping you from doing the things you said yes to.
So just do the things you say you're gonna do,
let someone know if things change,
and let them know when you can fill in at another point
or send somebody else in your place.
The more reliable you are, the better, across the board.
Habit number five, and I really, really, really
like this one because, yeah, pressure.
Be the pressure reliever, not the pressure builder.
You can probably think of someone
right now who makes you go,
oh my gosh, yeah, that's a pressure builder.
You can also think, oh my gosh,
yeah, she is a pressure reliever.
Those brands on you are very, very different
because it's another aspect of
are they someone I want to work with?
Even if you're in a typical workplace
situation and someone's saying,
who are we gonna put on this project,
and that project could be the ticket to a promotion
or to a different kind of work that's more enjoyable,
if you've got leadership on it that's saying like,
oh, I just feel like that person's not gonna be good energy,
you're a pressure builder, okay?
Maybe it's because you see the nays
of all the things and not the yays.
Maybe it's because you are always making excuses
and not being able to get your work done on time,
but you've got a lot of things to say about it.
If you're a pressure builder, everyone's gonna know it,
and that is not going to be good for your career.
If you find opportunities, again, to take initiative,
and you look for opportunities to relieve pressure
where it looks like it is being placed,
even if someone like your boss or your client
doesn't even realize that that pressure is there,
in my situation this is important because
I sometimes don't even know that I've put pressure
on myself that I have to do something unless
another one of my team members goes like,
well, do you want me to do that?
And then, I'm like, oh, is that possible?
That is a pressure reliever moment,
and that makes me reverberate in love for the people that
I work with and it makes me wanna give them more to do,
it makes me wanna make their lives even more interesting
with what we do and what kind of work we put out.
You want this to be an interesting journey
because even if this isn't your it thing right now,
it could take you to that next level.
So being the pressure builder means
being the person people don't wanna work with.
Being the pressure reliever is being
the person who is indispensable and will always
be called to step up to the plate.
Habit number six, and we talked a little bit about this one,
avoid excuses.
It's really, really easy to resort to them.
A lot of times I see so many excuses on a daily basis.
It's only 10% of the time that the excuses
I see are ones where I'm like,
okay, I get it, you didn't even have to say that
because 90% of them are like oh,
I can understand why she felt she needed to say that
because she's trying to qualify what happened,
and it really did work out that way,
but an excuse is just an excuse,
and most of the time when we're making them
it's not to make us look better,
it's to make us feel better and to say,
oh, I have a perfectly good reason why
I didn't show up to my greatest potential today.
You have a perfectly good reason as to why
you didn't show up to your ideal potential today?
Are you hearing yourself?
We don't need a reason.
We don't need a story.
We don't need additional meaning.
It happened, move on.
The excuse changes nothing 'cause it's all in the past
and whatever you were supposed to do you didn't do,
and that makes you dispensable.
But if you remove excuses you remove a lot of
that extra factor that people now have to sign up for
when they have to address that something didn't get done
to its fullest or your fullest potential.
Skip that part.
You've got enough to deal with otherwise.
If you didn't, make it happen.
Super easy example.
If you're late there could be
50 million excuses of that, right?
You could have hit traffic.
You could have had car trouble.
You could have had a lot of things.
At the end of the day 99.99999%
of the time it was your fault.
You didn't allocate enough time.
You didn't take the appointment seriously.
You think your time is worth more than someone else's.
There's a lot of things there
that are just plainly your fault,
so making an excuse makes no difference,
especially if you're like,
my time is more important than yours.
You're gonna be late, you might as well own it.
Don't make an excuse.
Habit number seven is to build complementary skills.
Really similar to habit number one
where we talked about making sure that you're
getting educated in a lot of different ways
so that you're more versatile than just your expertise,
but not just how things work in the workplace,
also how different positions around what you do
can be something that you learn as well so that
you can also present additional value.
Let's say that you are a graphic designer in the workplace,
and maybe you want to start your own design firm.
Well, learning a couple of different ins and outs
of what goes into graphic design that isn't
exactly your expertise that complement what you do
can help you to be able to offer more services
in your own sort of lane in your own business.
So looking at all the different
things that can contribute to that,
that is gonna make you indispensable because if you
work for someone they're gonna go,
oh my gosh, like but she knows all of this territory.
That might seem like we need the brains of three people,
but because you decided to stay educated
and to learn those complementary skills
you become more indispensable.
Again, even better if you're doing your own thing
and can offer the perspective of a multitude of skillsets.
Be resourceful.
That's the biggest thing of all of these things,
it's being resourceful and not talking
too much about things that don't matter.
When you do that you're able to have all of these
habits on your side when you execute on them on
a daily basis and become the indispensable person
in the workplace that everybody loves to work with,
everybody wants to hire,
everybody's afraid of letting go of,
and that is a good thing for you.
No matter what the economy looks like
you're going to be able to pivot
at any point in time that you might need to.
I have an eighth habit that I want to share,
but I'm saving that for my friends in Shine Squad,
so if you'd like to see it head over to patreon.com/amytv,
make sure you're in tier three or higher
and you'll be able to check out the eighth habit
that will make you indispensable at your work.
Those are more seven key habits for helping to make
you much more indispensable at your work.
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Question of the day.
What positive habits have you worked
on that help you in your career?
Leave that in the comments down below.
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Cheers.
Joy Mae, I think you're right.
All millennials love to get a gold star, I know I do.
Talk through tracking your stretching time, I love that.
Stretching is so good for you.
Queen, I am so grateful for you, as well.
Lindsey tracking her H2O, I see you.
64 ounces a day, awesome.
MaryLu, I need to get on this game.
Tracking my veg and fruit, super smart.
Bradley, keep at it, good morning, good life,
and I cannot wait to see what
happens with your recording career.
Kenard, so awesome to hear that
Morning Pages is resonating with you,
so definitely give it a try.
Georgia, I appreciate you too.
Take care.