How do I stand out?
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How do I stand out as a talent?
Why do you want to stand out? If you then know your why. You can use that why to know where you want to be inside of this organization.
You want to get understood better. You want to show up. Everyone has different needs, so be clear and understand your needs first. Before you do anything.
And then for me, it's very easy in a lot of organizations I see within a two, three months how the business works and how you can make a career. I'm of course plus 40 years old. I've worked in a lot of organizations where I sense what's going on and I'm a very much a people person, so I understand people and their demands inside an ecosystem.
Execute the work you get above average. If you are consistently delivering work above average, you will be noticed. And that sounds super silly. For me it's not about working harder than everyone else, it's just working smarter. Just deliver something like a task that you're supposed to deliver for the department head, a day in advance. If you do this consistently, they will notice that you are the only person that's delivering in advance. There not always a need for that, but it's just an example. And as well, if you deliver something extra to the task you're delivering, which is a benefit for the person you're delivering it to, or for the company as a totality, that's also going to be noticed.
That's why I'm saying it's not necessarily working harder, it's working smarter. And if you do this on average, always going 10, 15% above the average. You will succeed in an organization, understand who are the people in the organization and who have something to say when it comes to promoting people who are important. It's not necessarily always the highest people in the organization.
Go into fields where you can stand out fairly easy. If you are in a production company and you work inside of the production field, you will have a lot of
competition, because that's the core business of the company. If you work in the whole supply chain connected to that company. There may be opportunities where there's a weak department or an area which needs a lot of improvement. If you go into this area, you are able to stick out fairly easy and have the possibility to get seen from other people.
Go into the headquarter as closer you are to the center of power inside of an organization. I know this sounds weird and I'm not a big fan of that, but it works. If you're closer to the center of the power you are way more visible than if you are one of the best ones, but far away from the headquarter.