Recognizing Your Disruptive Skills

This is an article i came across on the web recently and found pretty interesting so decided to share it with my readers. This article is about recognizing your disruptive skills and employing them in the workplace to get paid for what you're worth. Everyone who works has at some point in his career if not frequently felt that he/she is not being paid for what they're worth. This article helps us, or perhaps shows us the direction in which to look to realize our true potential and present it to the employers.

I have just jotted down some intercepts from the article which i felt were kinda important. If you like these and would like to read the complete article, please click on the heading.

At the onset, and not like usually, i would like to thank Ms. Whitney Johnson for this very beautiful and informative article. Does not do her enough just to write "courtesy Ms. Whitney Johnson"at the end of the article, so thanked her at the beginning itself.

Now the intercepts:

• To actually recognize your Disruptive skills, ask yourself the following questions:

1. What do you do 'Reflexively' well?
   - To help you know this answer, ask yourself, what would you be doing when you don't  have anything to do?
   - What one or two things would you spend your time doing even if you were not being compensated?
   These questions hep you understand what you're actually interested in doing and that is one thing you would definitely be good at.
2. What do others identify as being your best skills?
   - An easy way to find this out is to ask your colleagues to complete this simple sentence: " One of the greatest ways you add value is ___________".
3. Do you have a confluence of skills?

The answers to these questions will help you analyze yourself better and to know your strengths.

• Keep an eye out for those compliments that you habitually dismiss. It is possible you are discounting a strength that others value. The tendency to deflect complements is often understandable and even justifiable, but over the course of our career, it will leave us trading at a discount than what we are worth.
  
  
• While it is likely these proficiencies are not your best skis, but they typically carry a price tag of sweat and tears; and they speak volumes about prospective hires.
  
  
• It is not required that your skills be limited to your profile, your diversified skills give an insight to who you actually are and what you are capable of. Something your degree does not tell.
  
  
• Remember, Innovative ideas do not come from rational thought, but from flash intuition. -Dr. Amar Bose ( Founder of BOSE systems).
  
  
• Disruptive skill and Sustaining skill is the two step guide to success. You recognize your disruptive skills and put them to good use making them sustainable. It is only once they become sustainable, you start to gain or profit from them.
  
  
• Towards the end, know, Achieving your true value does not happen overnight. Most of us begin in a rebar type slot - with assignments, no one wants. But as we gain a foothold in our chosen career, using our disruptive skills to stand out from the crowd, and leveraging our hard-won skills, to get in and stay in the game, we can upend others' perception of our worth. Beginning first as a 'Disruptive-Emerging Growth' story and in time evolving into a 'Best of Breed' story. A sure formula for getting paid for what you're worth not just for a year or two, but for decades.

Hope you guys enjoying reading this. Please share your comments if your have any. :)