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Make Your Real Value Visible and Enhance Your Career

You're told, "Own your career." 

Here's how to do it.

Meaningful Competence®


  • Eliminate unclear expectations.
  • Differentiate yourself to get favored jobs, promotions, contracts and more.
  • Be known for the real value you bring.
  • Enjoy the job you have today.

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Why You Struggle

The structure of annual performance appraisals.

  • Supervisor ratings are inconsistent. What does a "3" or "4" mean to your supervisor?
  • Only a certain percentage in each organization can achieve a higher rating, penalizing groups with a greater number of high achievers.
  • Either you met your goals or didn't meet your goals. There's little information to support agreement as to whether an employee exceeded or greatly exceeded expectations.
  • There's no clear method to differentiate employee value. Historically, 75% of employees get the same ranking, "meets expectations."

Goals are great for personal motivation. They don't work as a tool to evaluate performance. Companies and industries are constantly changing. Any goal specific enough to be worthwhile will be quickly outdated.

Expectations generally center on what an employee should be busy doing. They don't focus on the measurable value an employee produced. That means you have few, if any, metrics to prove the value you produced during your annual performance appraisal. You'll also end up with a weak resumé (CV) without solid metrics that show your value. 

If you have annual performance appraisals, what you do the two months before your appraisal will affect your rating more than all that great work you did earlier in the year. If there isn't any formal evaluation of your work, your evaluation is determined by the supervisor's current perception of your work. If you're really great at pleasing people, being evaluated by perception will work in your favor. But if you're like most people, good luck getting a string of excellent performance reviews.

We know that if you constantly run a machine above its capacity, it will eventually fail. Current employee evaluation methods don't consider the production capability of people. Without that knowledge, supervisors blindly overwork employees who aren't able to clearly prove they're being worked above the capacity of the above average worker.

How to Become Successful

Would you like some advice on how to become successful? Here's some advice.

  • Spend the 10,000 hours developing your skill.
  • Have a growth mindset.
  • Determine what makes you jump for joy.

If you want more advice, visit the speeches of the success experts that seem to believe greatness comes from implementing a method that worked for someone else. 


Here's another approach. 


Recognize that most of your burnout, unsatisfactory performance reviews, struggles with leadership, workplace stress, and other issues stem from An Inadequate Employee Evaluation Process.


During my 30 years in Talent Development I recognized that as great as many training courses and motivational presentations were, there was something missing: the tools anyone can use to become their own career consultant. 


Don't leave to chance, or to an inadequate employee evaluation process, the opportunity to align your passion and your career.

  • Imagine never being passed over for a promotion because your leaders didn't seem to know the real value you bring. 
  • Imagine having a strong, ever-ready resumé (CV) along with a strong value story that gets you that new job you've always wanted but didn't think you'd get.
  • Imagine having tools that let you know what valued outputs to produce to get more recognition.
  • Imagine knowing when it's time to leave a job.


Get the tools that will constantly broadcast the the value you bring to your organization and to yourself.

When You have the Right Tools

The right career tools increase your influence on your employee evaluation. Using them, you can improve any job or career situation.

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The Tools

The Metric Microscope

Challenges addressed: Resumé content, Business acumen


Using the Metric Microscope, you develop your Relevant Business Results. With your Relevant Business Results:

  • You always know the real value you're bringing to the organization.
  • You're clear on what your supervisor and senior leaders care about.
  • You have resumé material to use for more objective and successful performance appraisals and to obtain a new job when you desire it.

The Value Detector

Challenges addressed: Unclear expectations, Rapid changes, Perception-based evaluation


Using the Value Detector, you create Value-Added Outputs that contribute to favorable Relevant Business Results, and to your personal value.

  • Instead of merely being busy, you produce results that move metrics. 
  • You're clear about what your supervisor values and how they measure that value.
  • You gain the confidence to make the job moves that result in an enjoyable work life.

The Individual Mesh

Challenges addressed: Rapid change, Organizational agility, Getting stuck in a job


Success at work is all about relationships. But it's more than just relationships with people, it's also relationships with structures. Through use of the Organizational Mesh, you'll

  • Identify the relationship issues that prevent you from attention-getting performance.
  • Create personal career problem statements that increase the relevance of your current and future Value-Added Outputs.
  • Know precisely what you need to work on to improve your current work situation and prepare yourself for your next work situation.

The Competence Levers

Challenges addressed: Self-development plans, Limited competence development resources


Companies will provide training, but there's no way they can provide all that you need to build your career. Become your own career consultant. Use this tool to:

  • Build your personal competence development plan, a plan that takes advantage of corporate training and adds what you need right now.
  • Identify and create resources that accelerate your personal career growth.
  • Use multiple leverages to more efficiently build competence so your development time is not wasted.

The Relevance Microphone

Challenges addressed: Invisible value, Passed over for promotions, Insufficient raises


You know you have great potential and you've provided great value. You'll be overlooked if you can't broadcast your value. With the Relevance Microphone, you'll have:

  • A method to share your value, even if you're extremely humble or an introvert's introvert.
  • Awareness of your personal value, giving yourself the strength and motivation to keep moving your career in the direction you want it to move.

CAREER ENHANCEMENT ACADEMY PROGRAMS

Torch Solutions Group builds your ability to use these tools throughout your career through its Career Enhancement Academy. All programs focus on developing your ability to significantly improve your job and your career.


In each program, you're paired with your own Value Enhancement Coach. Your program includes sessions with your Value Enhancement Coach supplemented by several resources.


Choose from three programs prepared for current workforce employees, those who are between jobs, or those reentering the workforce. 

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The Career Enhancement Accelerator

The Career Enhancement Accelerator

Choose this program if you want an inexpensive program that will help you quickly improve your current job or career situation.

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The Career Enhancement Accelerator

The Career Enhancement Accelerator

The Career Enhancement Accelerator

Choose this program to maximize your influence on your career and be known for the value you bring to an organization.

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The Valued Output Workforce Leader

The Career Enhancement Accelerator

The Valued Output Workforce Leader

Choose this program if you're currently a leader and want to maximize your team's value, which makes you look great.

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