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Targeting Behaviors That Build Productivity Muscle - The Nine Work Strategies
Targeting Behaviors That Build Productivity Muscle - The Nine Work Strategies
October 3, 2000
1. Initiative: Blazing Trails in the Organization's White Spaces.
Going above and beyond the accepted job description, or busting out of everyday work routines to offer new, often bold, value-adding ideas
2. Networking: Knowing Who Knows by Plugging into the Knowledge Network.
Proactively developing the dependable pathways to knowledge experts who can help complete critical path tasks.
3. Self-Management: Managing Your Whole Life at Work.
It allows me to develop a portfolio of talents and work experiences so that my value to the company increases.
4. Perspective: Getting the Big Picture.
A multidimensional skill that allows me to see a project or problem in a larger context and through the eyes of the critical others.
5. Followership: Checking Your Ego at the Door to Lead in Assists.
A work strategy that involves being actively engaged in helping the organization succeed while exercising independent, critical judgment of goals, tasks, and methods.
6. Teamwork: Getting Real About Teams.
Being a positive contributor to the group's dynamics: helping everyone feel part of the team, dealing with conflict, and assisting others in solving problems.
7. Leadership: Doing Small-L Leadership in a Big-L World.
A work strategy that employs my expertise and influence to convince a group of people to come together and to accomplish a substantial task.
8. Organizational Savvy: Using Street Smarts in the Corporate Power Zone.
A work strategy that helps me to navigate the competing interests in the organization, to promote cooperation; address conflicts, and get things done.
9. Show-and-Tell: Persuading Your Audience with the Right Message.
A series of skills involving selecting information to pass on to others an developing the most effective, user-friendly format for reaching and persuading a specific audience (Kelley, 1998, pp.31-34)."
Reference: Kelley, R.E. (1998). How to be a star at work: nine
breakthrough strategies you need to succeed. New York: Times Business.
How to Be a Star at Work is available on loan from the OSU Leadership Center. A complete listing of all the Leadership Center's resources is available on our website www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~leaders
Created: 2009-01-02, Updated: 2009-01-12
