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The AVE Concept
learn to use them and they all require the same skills that we need
to be a successful Added Value Employee.
An example that I often use with clients, to make the point,
relates to property and family: If I asked you to set up and manage
a £1 million business you might shrink back and think, ‘oh-mygod
what a big scary project’, and say, ‘I could never do that. I’m
not a business person, or a project manager.’ However, if we look
at 20 years of family income and include the value of property
transactions, they can easily be in excess of £1 million. We manage
that and we might even be doing a great job of it. There’s no
difference. If you can do it at home you can do it at work. And
if you’re struggling at home, you’re probably just lacking a bit of
support or information. I’ve worked with enough people who’ve
moved from fed up, washed up and fearful to assertive, resourceful
and productive to know that we all have magic inside us. We are
talented and we can already do complex and demanding tasks.
Remember that, as you read this book, you’re already doing
it anyway. We just need to focus our thinking and actions to
apply them to what we need to do in our organisation during our
working day.
THE AVE CONCEPT
Building on the criteria of Productivity, People Skills and PR, we
arrive at the AVE concept because it underpins what becoming an
Added Value Employee is all about. The concept comes in two parts:
1 Scoring ourselves for each one of the three key areas.
2 Combining these raw scores into our Organisational Impact
Score.
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