Less than a Minute Life Lesson-2410 Promotion and Character

Work Place Lessons from Office Stationary-3

Highlighter

(Key word- Hard work can also be interpreted as initiatives, innovation & doing it for the first time)

Highlighter – though we started using this in our later stages of our education but it become a part and parcel of a stationary kit in our work place.

It was used to highlight the important points and it served as a remainder to remember certain important aspect of the task.

But it has its unique feature which will help us in understanding the importance of developing visibility in the workplace.

There are many employees who work hard but they don’t highlight their hard work, when we tried to understand why people don’t highlight their hard work these are some of the inputs I got:

•  Is it not the immediate manager’s duty to highlight the subordinate’s hard work?
•  Work hard rest is taken care
•  Why should I blow my trumpet

In order to appeal to their logical brain I narrate the following from the book 22 immutable laws of marketing written by Al rise and Jack trout.

Being first in the market is better than having a better product than a competition. Examples: we all remember who first flew over Atlantic or who was the first man on the moon but only few knows who the second was.

In order to appeal to the Emotional brain I narrate the following story

A man bought a bird which can talk 3000 words. He kept in the Cage and told his wife to take care, but he never told about the uniqueness of the bird.

He went on a tour and came back after three days and saw the empty cage. He asked his wife what happened to the bird

She said darling the bird was fleshy and I ate the bird.

He asked her “Do you know what is unique about this bird?

She asked “what is unique about a bird

He said “this bird can talk three thousand words

She said: what is the use of knowing 3000 words, when the bird cannot tell 3 words “don’t kill me”

Similarly in workplace there are many people who have unique ideas, they do take initiatives and do much more but unfortunately they don’t highlight their performance and hence they stay in the same place. In this competitive world sometimes your own colleagues are your competitors.

“Remember your credibility also requires visibility, visibility enhances when your work is highlighted”

Written By: M.L.Narendra Kumar