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Micromanagement
If you’re a micromanager that’s always checking in, you’re telling the team that they don’t have the same level of skills as you to do the job.
You might think you’re being indispensable and securing your role in the organization, but you’re likely demonstrating that you’re not a very good boss, which in the end makes your job less secure. You’re also more likely to burn out.
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Replaceable Doesn’t Mean Redundant
Being replaceable—a concept various company executives and business management books have promoted over the years—isn’t as precarious as it sounds; it just means that someone else at your workplace can do your job. That doesn’t mean the work isn’t important, or that you aren’t the best person for...
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How To Be Replaceable
- Put everything in writing: Every process, task, or policy related to your job should be written down and stored in a drive where others can access it (ideally with a date or version number).
- Support and train your colleagues: If no one else can d...
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Assuming You Are Indispensable Is Dangerous
Being replaceable means that you’ll share knowledge and skills related to your role with other employees, which ultimately benefits the company and demonstrates to supervisors that you have leadership skills.
Conversely, thinking of yourself as indispensable can be danger...
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Traps To Avoid
- Thinking your current job knowledge and technical skills are enough to be a manager. Good management and people skills can be more important than technical skills.
- Failing to consult regularly with your boss, in an attempt to show that you can cope on your own.
- Approaching yo...
Getting skills
- Job shadowing: Just like buying a car, trying out a job before taking it is always a great idea. What if you love the clean environment of working at an accounting firm, but you lack the necessity of being able to stand up and walk outside when necessary? Many organizations...
Side hustles are a luxury
A side hustle seldom makes much money, but it is more something you do because you like it. It is not the same as a "second job" as you don't feel pressure to use it to makes ends meet.
Team members that have side hustles rather than second jobs mean that the company is doing something rig...
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