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5 Ways To Share Your Professional Expertise And 4 Reasons You Should
Share Your Expertise
- Nothing helps deepen knowledge as effectively as sharing it.
- It expands what you know. Sharing your expertise means inviting a new conversation.
- It establishes your reputation as an authority.
- It increases your professional value. When your expertise helps the entire team, you become a more valuable part of it.
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Influence at work
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Build connections
Work on cultivating personal connections with your colleagues, and allow them to get to know you.
You don’t have to be “the greatest person in the room” or make sure “everyone is blown away by your charisma.” You just need to have good rapport with your colleagues. That way, they won’t impute negative intentions or motives to you.
Listen before you try to persuade
Start by giving them your undivided attention in one-on-one situations. Turn your body toward the other person, freeze in place, and listen.
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Find What Gives Your Work Meaning
Is it a connection to a certain cause? Is it engaging one of your skills or personal passions? Is it serving a specific population? Everyone has their own causes, the things that give their ...
Cultivate Self Awareness
Ask yourself concrete questions to reveal your truth:
What are you working for? What impact do you want to create in your job? What skills do you want to develop and leverage?
Write a Career Mantra
Keep it short and simple—just focus on what gets you out the door every day.
Your mantra should encompass who you are, where you want to go, and the impact you want to make during your 9-to-5.
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Use of a Personal SWOT Analysis
Your Personal ...
Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats
... Analysis is a great tool to assess yourself in order ...
4 Steps to do your SWOT analysis
- List down the “strengths”. Knowing these will help you to be more confident in an interview or when looking for a job promotion.
- Know your “weaknesses”. Identifying weaknesses is the best way to improve them.
- Find matching “opportunities”. Opportunities come in different shapes and forms. Sometimes opportunities past by you without you even noticing them.
- Be aware of “threats”. Identify competition, new technologies, personal traits or obstacles.
What makes you stand out? "Strengths"
- What are the professional qualifications/certifications you have?
- Can your expertise in some area make a difference to the organization?
- What projects/campaigns have you completed successfully?
- Do you have powerful industry contacts?
- What other skills make you stand out from the rest?
What do others think as your strengths?