Your career will only be as good as you make it. A question you should ask yourself often is, “Am I building personal capital in my company?”
Go a bit deeper with this question and ask:
- “Am I succeeding in this job?”
- “Do others view me as a contributor to our company success?”
- “Does senior management realize my value?”
- “Can I quantify the value I bring to the table?”
The personal capital you have in a company includes many things. People in a company have value and you are perceived as having more or less value than the people sitting next to you.
Obviously, you want your “personal capital value” to be perceived as very high, , , and well worth the investment in salary and benefits your company pays to include you as a member of the team.
You gain personal capital in many ways, such as:
- Personal successes
- Teamwork
- Leadership successes
- Ideas that create value
- Attitude
- Helping others succeed
I could list a dozen more things, , , what is important is that essentially everything you do in your company either adds or subtracts from your personal capital total.
Think about it this way. Let’s say you are the holder of 100 shares of stock in 50 companies. When you put them side by side to determine their value, you should think about several things, , , current stock price, , , potential growth opportunity, , , maybe some pay a dividend and others do not, , , etc.
Many things to think about if you had $5,000 and wanted to invest more in a few of your current stock holdings. Which stocks do you invest more in? Probably, the one you think offers the most opportunity for growth and has low risk.
Key point here, , , low risk. We like our investments to be safe investments.
When senior managers evaluate people in their company, they do the same thing to a certain extent.
First, they value you and compare the investment they have in you to other people in the company. Then they decide whether they should invest more in you for the future, , , or is it better to invest in someone else.
The people who get the most investment and career opportunity are the people who display competence and achieve success, , , their personal capital goes up when this happens.
The point
Think about whether you are adding to your personal capital balance or detracting from it in everything you do, , , even in the suggestions or ideas you present.
Do things that help your company succeed and it pays you back over time, , , focus only on yourself and it diminishes your opportunity.
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