Review: Doing Your Job - Successfully by Tab Edwards

Doing your Job Successfully by Tab Edwards

Suppose that your employer walked up to you today and asked you a simple question " How will you succeed in your job?"Many people in the workplace, the chances are that the answer they give insufficient for achieving repeatable success in any job, whatever job that happens to be. Success in any job requires an understanding of the levers of job success. and how the levers can impact your job performance, along with your ability decide your success in the job. Tab Edward offers a prescription for how to succeed in your job. The 10 process toward doing your job successfully is the following ten steps, understand what your job really is, undertake an honest inventory of your current state and perform a gap analysis, ensure that the objectives you are charged with achieving are S.M.A.R.T (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound), document your goals and objectives and make them visible; review them daily, develop a plan for how you will achieve, work productively, be diligent, constantly work to improve your skills and ability,establish recurring meetings with your manager, and reward yourself. The worker's job and associated activities have been specifically determined for the purpose of contributing to the owner's ultimate aim or goal which are determined by the position they were fired to perform specific task, activities, and functions related to what the employer is trying to accomplish. Mr. Edward's points out that performance is determined by whether or not you achieve the specific and measurable outcome you were charged with achieving within the given time frame; either you succeeded or you didn't. All job-related work activities should contain all the characteristics of organizational objectives and business unit level objectives. He also points out that responsibility of each of the team accepts and works toward the goals of the team, attends meetings, participates in meetings, shares their knowledge and expertise; fulfills responsibilities and assigned tasks, practices "beneficial" team behaviors.

I find that his observation that you are accountable for your own job success very no-nonsense observation. He points out that being successful in your job is about being an active participant, rather than a bystander, in your own success. This very insightful way to approach one job leaves with an understanding of the responsibility of each of us for own success and how to achieve it by knowing exactly what is job is in the grand scheme of company achievement.