The current recession is tougher and longer compare to the 2002 recession. We are seeing companies either goes out of business or acquired by competitors. In either case, the negative impact on employment opportunities are inevitable, it leads to fewer jobs and much tougher competition.
How to survive? It may not be difficult but needs some level of discipline and planning required personally and professionally.
1. Organizations rely on people who are capable of delivering the set target goals with constraints, we must be ready to embrace those challenges
2. Ability to do multi-tasking and multi-skills are key for survival
3. Always remember the three key traits: Offer your Flexibility, Availability and Unconditional support to your colleagues, direct reports, supervisor(s) and to your organization
4. Keep innovate to increase your productivity. It can be a better process to get your work done at faster rate, or new technique to do multiple tasks at parallel to reduce time and cost
5. Knowledge is wealth, that’s what it matters to businesses. New skills open a window of new opportunities and new opportunities creates a new platform for the growth. Help yourself by adding one new skill per year; you can make your job a recession proof, I can bet on it.
6. When businesses run at tighter budgets, the speed and accuracy of your job is critical. Must be in a position to balance these by delivering projects on time, may be that’s the way to do all the time?
7. Show your enthusiasm, honesty, dedication, audacity, and professionalism. The businesses knew that the employees who possess these traits are asset to their organization; you will not let go even at difficult times.
8. Avoid late office arrivals, non-business phone calls, frequent breaks, and any non-productive tasks. In normal business circumstances, these can be subjective and may be tolerable to an extent but not when business is at difficult economic times
9. Believe in your contribution to the organization, take a great pride, keep high spirits and positive attitude. If you have these, you will stand out in your organization because you are different.
10. Take the ownership and help your colleagues, help your team, and help your organization in whatever form you can to increase the bottom-line for your organization. By doing so, you would be taking a great advantage of the recession and making your position much stronger in the organization.
4 comments:
Agree with each one of these. But I think this is one side of the story. it would be good if
we also get some insight into what to expect from the organization
I agree with the comment, my intent was to limit the discussion relevant to the title of the topic. May be I will put my thoughts together and add another article in the said angle. Thanks
Thanks for the valuable comments...is like a heads up to keep up pace where we stand today...keep blogging...binesh :)
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