Bud Bilanich, “The Common Sense Guy”, in his blog, “Vacation Time is a Great Time to Establish Yourself,” presents your co-worker’s vacation as THE opportunity of a professional lifetime for YOU – who will not be on vacation. Simply by volunteering to take on some of his work, you’ll be growing your skills – and maybe getting noticed.
Kevin Ohannessian blogged that “every day” there might be overlooked chances a person can take to move beyond their current boundaries at “No Day Like Today to Grow Your Career.”
Take a look at this list:
- Help a co-worker who is overwhelmed by a new project.
- Assist a colleague who is temporarily “up to her eyeballs in gators.”
- Look for opportunities when someone goes on maternity/paternity leave.
- When job disability is the only option for an employee, look for parts of his job that might be interesting or beneficial.
Another instance, not to miss when it comes to volunteering as a means to get noticed and step up your career, occurs at companies that have sabbatical programs. The lucky sabbatical taker worries about his work getting done (no surprise here) and so do his colleagues (no surprise here, either). Think that you have to have all the skills in your toolkit before you volunteer? Nah. In fact, silly idea.
Passion and desire are the best motivators for learning. What you don’t know, you can learn. (Most people leave way to much information about how to do it their way – which may not be your way – or the best way.)
For growing talent in an organization, the work in most cases shouldn’t be just turned over to someone we know can do it. That’s more like stiffling talent.
So these are the Bud, Kevin and Barbara ideas for volunteering at work and getting ahead. What have we missed?
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