Make Your Real Value Visible and Enhance Your Career

What does an enhanced career look like? Since careers are personal journeys, they look different for each one of us. Here are examples of enhanced careers.

• Jim didn't care to move into management, but he wanted to know that what he did for the company had value. Through Meaningful Competence™, Jim developed the ability to create and update Value-Added Outputs with each supervisor he worked for. The Value-Added Outputs provided the clear expectations and capability to view the value he produced to get the raises, bonuses, and recognition without requiring that move into management.

• After six years, Kristi was ready for a career move. After investigating her next desired job, she used the Individual Mesh to identify the competence she needed to develop to successfully obtain and succeed in the job. By adjusting her Value-Added Outputs with her current employer, she built a record of results that supported her success in her new career.

• Kyle's timing was bad. Just when he was starting his career, the economy tanked. Kyle knew he needed more than thinking happy thoughts and working hard. He needed to know his real value to represent it when opportunity came knocking. Each day he worked in the fast-food restaurant, he focused on achieving his Value-Added Outputs. The confidence he gained through visibly seeing his success propelled him into the law profession, aided by a scholarship and degree from a highly-rated university. He continues to set Value-Added Outputs and use the four leverages of competence development to further his career. 

• Jordan chose to build a new business after being laid off. Fortunately he had confidence in his value to perform the work customers asked. His success led to the possibility of increasing his company. But how would he make sure they produced the value requested? He was used to letting a Human Resource team help with hiring and leading employee evaluation activities. Fortunately Jordan could express his expectations in terms of Value-Added Outputs. Using the tools of Meaningful Competence™, his employees, both contracted and hired, knew Jordan was interested in their career success. Their production enhanced Jordan's career as his business grew.

Value-Added Outputs provide the clarity you need to expose your real value,and allow you to better target your career improvement efforts. A Value-Added Outputs is:

• Something you produce—a service, physical product, event, document, or other countable output—that is proven to influence Relevant Business Results. 

What do Value-Added Outputs look like? Here are a few.

I'd like to provide a 30-minute intervention that solves your career issues forever. But you and I both know that's impossible. Your career will cover several years. You'll face several different career and life situations. So you're getting something that will last your entire career—access to the Career Enhancement Academy.

You'll get a variety of programs and resources in the Career Enhancement Academy. Here are examples of those elements, all of them available to you at any time, including Strategy Consultations. It's a unique, 24/7, career long academy. Is it all you'll need? No. But within the Academy is our favorite tool, the Individual Mesh, that will provide you guidance as to the next skill or action that will lead to career success.