How to keep your job Cover.indd - Richard Maun

Powerful You
and skills. What do we do well? What have we had praise for in the
last couple of years? What do we count among our achievements?
What did they like about us at interview? What qualifi cations do
we have (either on paper or through experience)? Take some time
to think and perhaps chat with a trusted friend or your partner.
Then fi ll in the table below, in any order, and feel free to add more
items if you wish.
Strengths I have and achievements
I have made include:
1) 1)
2) 2)
3) 3)
4) 4)
5) 5)
Technical skills and qualifi cations
that I have include:
TAKING RESPONSIBILITY
We know that at some point in our working life, the organisation
we are part of will expand, contract or maybe merge with a
second organisation. At each one of these key decision points, the
personnel required to make the organisation effective will change
and therefore decisions will need to be taken about who stays,
who goes, and who needs to be promoted or demoted. This is the
time when things count, when our previous actions and inactions
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