Meaningful Competence™
Career Enhancement, Employee Agility
Finally, a strategy that employees can use to enhance their careers and companies can use to increase workforce agility.
We Want to Be Valued
We Can Increase Skills Forever...
...but skills without strategy does not produce valuable results. Rarely does one learn a new skill and successfully conquer the entire world in front of them. Focusing on skills will not bring lasting value, especially as we constantly need new skills in a constantly changing environment.
Should We Focus on Success?
A common definition of success is that if you work and train hard enough, you can be the CEO, a division leader, the greatest salesperson, or another great leader or best at something. That's motivating to the top 5 percent of people, but the other 95 percent know they will never reach lofty leadership positions or be the best at something, but they do want to be rewarded for the value they bring.
I Exceed Expectations
One company changed the midpoint of their appraisal process to "Exceeds Expectations." Seems no one felt valued when told they only met expectations. That's good—most people want to be considered as better than average, but also frustrating—basing value on comparisons is a poor and demotivating strategy.
The Company Wants to Know an Employee's Value
The company has limited resources. The company needs a way to know the real value employees bring to improve personnel decisions and efficiently maximize the production of value for their customers.
The Employee Wants Recognition for the Value They Bring
Employees will gladly increase their engagement, learn new skills, increase their accountability, and do more if they are recognized for the value they bring. Without that recognition, they'll merely be employees waiting for specific instructions so they don't run the risk of being punished for their errors.
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How to Implement Meaningful Competence
For intrapreneurs, entrepreneurs, and employees
For intrapreneurs, entrepreneurs, and employees
For intrapreneurs, entrepreneurs, and employees
As an intrapreneur or entrepreneur, you'll use the Meaningful Competence™ strategy to own and improve your job and career. You'll learn the real value you bring to your current job, and how to increase that value. You'll have content to create the stories needed for resumes and job interviews. You'll know how to communicate your value and make it visible such that you get those career enhancements you seek, such as a new job, a move to a new industry, or better raises.
For companies and organizations
For intrapreneurs, entrepreneurs, and employees
For intrapreneurs, entrepreneurs, and employees
As an organization implements the Meaningful Competence™ strategy, they partner with their employees to produce value and increase agility. The days of quickly outdated annual goals are replaced with constant clarity of Value-Added Outputs that increase Relevant Business Results. Employees know what brings value, and have tools to learn for themselves how to increase production of Value-Added Outputs. They are free to learn and do what it takes to make the organization agile.
NEW RELEASE
The world was already in upheaval before the 2020 pandemic.
- The oil industry had shed thousands of jobs because they had become too successful using technology that led to a glut of oil in the world market.
- The fast food industry built robots and kiosks that reduced the more expensive headcount.
- The financial industry implemented artificial intelligence to perform many audits previously performed by professionals.
And then many of us were asked to work from home, balancing work and life when schools were closed and communities were locked down.
But we were still required to produce this elusive thing called "valued performance" to keep our jobs or obtain new ones to replace those lost.
Supervisors were still under the obligation to lead their teams to produce value for companies that were feeling the effects of the pandemic. Some were asked to produce more products and services from new demands, others needed to deal with maintaining or increasing value just to stay alive.
In this new book, Kent Nuttall introduces Meaningful Competence™, a strategy to meet these new trials. How do employees and supervisors build their careers and the careers of those they lead in this ever-changing environment?
Real Value
As an employee, you're a rare person if you're perfectly satisfied with your last performance appraisal, latest raise, recent evaluation, or other assessment of your value to your company. The tools used today reveal perceived value at best. How do you get your real value recognized? How do you even know your real value in this time of social and economic upheaval?
As a supervisor, you face this issue on the other side. You'll want to know the real value each employee provides to provide them the opportunities, challenges, and compensation that benefits your organization. You can only do that if you and your employees agree on what outputs add value and the metrics showing the value produced.
Build Relevant Competence
It's easy to find career advice. It's much more difficult to find relevant career advice that works in times of calm and in times of change. How can you self-identify the actions that will make you more valuable in your current job and in your industry? How do you improve the employee-supervisor relationship to identify what gets in the way of producing more valued outputs and overcome those obstacles?
Enhance Your Career
Career enhancement is the achievement of a career desire. It could be a promotion, or a raise, or a bonus, or a career change. It could also be getting a new job or starting or enlarging your own company. Sometimes it's just getting making your current job more enjoyable. What is the strategy to enhance your career?