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\"FriesSoon there will be nowhere left to hide. Everyone\u2019s value is under the microscope from colleagues and management alike.\u00a0 Whether you turn widgets, manage a process, a set of processes, lead teams or manage team leaders leading teams\u2026 or run a whole division\u2026 or even an entire organization, you are under constant scrutiny in today\u2019s open workplace.<\/p>\n

Everyone has to prove they are useful, add real value and are worth their salaries\u2026 or they are toast.\u00a0 But most importantly, people need to prove they can be trusted<\/em>.\u00a0 Employee trust in today\u2019s workplace is about proving you are doing more than just enough<\/em> not to get fired<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Loyalty is legacy<\/span><\/p>\n

Most heritage enterprises no longer want to give out gold watches for your turning up everyday for last 30 years\u2026 I mean, \u201cthanks for showing up and coasting here for 30 bloody years and making it really hard to fire you\u201d.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think so\u2026 Loyalty means little, but value <\/em>means everything.\u00a0The more legacy work we automate\/digitize, outsource, replace with software, or just write-off, the more we have to focus on our human skills<\/em> to justify our existence in today\u2019s workplace.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow\u2019s successful workers are those who use their initiative<\/em> to perform activities, on their own volition, to find new value for their enterprises.\u00a0 You can\u2019t get any progress or value from methods like Design Thinking<\/a> if your staff are only checking the boxes to perform their rudimentary employment functions. Design Thinking is about going beyond the norm to challenge the status quo, to think outside<\/em> the boxes, not just checking them.<\/p>\n

You are who you<\/em> are \u2013 your reputation is everything, your ability to forge relationships with colleagues, peers, industry influencers and company leaders who appreciate your value, your perspective and your personality is, really, all <\/em>you have.\u00a0 The days when you could get away with hopping from job to job because you were great at bullshitting your way through interviews are dying \u2013 any employer with half a brain isn\u2019t recruiting through traditional channels any more.\u00a0 It\u2019s all about people engaging with people who have established a reputation for adding value, going beyond the basics, and being great to work with.<\/p>\n

You need to find new problems, not just solve old ones<\/span><\/p>\n

But adding value is not just about solving known existing problems, it\u2019s about finding new ones to solve in the future.\u00a0 You can always find a contractor or an outsourcer to fix a broken set of processes, or correct lines of badly written code. But finding people\u00a0which can challenge whether those processes or lines of code are even still relevant<\/em> to meeting your desired outcomes\u2026 people\u00a0who care<\/em>\u00a0enough about their jobs and their company\u2019s success to go beyond performing \u201cjust adequately enough not to get fired\u201d is the secret sauce for future value.\u00a0 \u00a0And that is what new workforce trust<\/em> is all about \u2013 initiative, attitude, personality and trust.<\/p>\n

The Bottom-line: There is no secret sauce to staying relevant \u2013 it\u2019s about putting our egos aside and becoming\u00a0students again\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Frankly, I\u2019m sick and tired hearing about \u201cDigital Skills\u201d and \u201cCreative Capabilities\u201d being some far-flung capabilities which you need to go to Millennial school to develop (whatever that is). Digital skills are about understanding your customers\u2019 current experiences and intelligently leveraging every traditional, social and mobile channel touching your business to make them richer. Creative capabilities come from collaborating and challenging yourself with your colleagues and partners.<\/p>\n

So correct me if I am wrong, but being successful today is about using capabilities we already have<\/em>. It\u2019s simply making ourselves students again, finding that hunger to learn about what\u2019s out there and engaging with everyone around us to prove and challenge our theories. \u00a0We must ditch this sense of entitlement that dictates we don’t need to go back to basics and force ourselves to think, collaborate and learn all over again – or we’re going to be done before we know it.<\/p>\n

Enterprises need to behave like start-ups, where their people group together for the common cause of making their collective group successful – only willing collaborators with a desire to learn and challenge need apply.\u00a0We’re all part of the Digital Generation – we just need put our egos to one side and own up to the fact we’re all students rediscovering\u00a0what we’re all about and what we’re capable of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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