3 Simple Steps to Improve your Career

The pure objective in working is money, most of people place it as their first priority. If you are working in company, a good way to improve your monthly money income which mostly come from salary are by improving your career at the company.

Based on my experience working in world wide company, a person who contribute a lot to our career improvement would be our direct superior. If we could manage to impress our superior in good way and also the management team in our division then career improvement are on the way
To do so….this 3 steps will guide you in getting your superior attention and respect also make your career improve.

1. Be an Expert in your area.
You have to be an expert in your area responsibility, it can be your sales area, your sub ordinate ( if you have any), your competitor related products and your market. Important message is you have to be the master in your circle
Your superior will see you an expert in target achievement for all your sales KPI in certain period of time and Keep your report or project date line on time. Well I know that sales are not stable, sometimes we fall and not achieve the target, if this happen you have to give reasonable reason and the most important thing the solution to fix the problem and ensure the problem are not exist in the future.

2. Raise your helicopter view
After you have mastered your circle, now its time to expand it, learn from other division like finance, human resource and production. For a start you could learn simple things like profit & Loss statement and cash flow calculation in finance, basic in hiring third party in HR and COGS calculation in production division
If you are invited to have discussion with your boss in private or in a group discussion, always give larger view of the problem and solution ( have to be bigger than your area ) and always focus on the solution. For example if you have a discussion regarding activity to improve sales, you could give some idea which also review financial impact and how it could effect the bottom line of the company since you already learn the COGS.

3. Don’t ever cut the line
If you are invited to have a discussion with your boss superior ( it always happen in sales company ) always bring you superior name on every good action and idea you made in your division, even if your superior not giving you any direction, just mention it. giving your superior popularity will lift yours as well, and your superior will not think that you are his/her competitor .

Please remember the main objective is money, and the way to improve our money income are from career improvement. Since our direct superior contribute a lot be en expert in your area, raise the helicopter view and not cut our superior line will be the keys to get our superior attention and respect hopefully will improve our career at the company.