How to Become Important

Personal development is becoming increasingly important.

According to researchers at Hays, in today's rapidly changing work environment, sitting back and expecting your current skills to be enough in the future is no longer an option

Worse: if you sit back and wait for your friendly employer to offer you a course to improve your skills, chances are you will soon be as redundant and obsolete as, say, the fax machine.

In doing so, a whopping 61 percent complain that their employer does not invest enough in their development. Yet nearly half believe it is their own responsibility to keep their skills up-to-date, not the employer's or government's. Nearly four out of 10 then directly admit that they do nothing to develop themselves. Of those who do, chances are it is still not enough. In fact, sixty percent do no more than keep abreast of trends and developments through trade magazines and seminars. Only one-third actively engage in courses and training to improve skills.

Don't wait and see

Waiting can be disastrous. Take the initiative now

Employers have been mostly concerned with survival in recent years. Employees must remember that they must take charge of their own development.

What you can do yourself

• Be proactive. See the work and the opportunities. Grab them and don't wait for them to come your way

• Become a networker. Actively go out and meet more people yourself. This is how you expand your network and become more important to your employer. Especially if your network is going to consist of potential new clients

• Make yourself matter. Find out what your employer wants from you and do that. In fact, go the extra mile. That way, he or she will definitely not want to lose you

• Make work of personal development. As Jim Rohn used to say:

"To attract attractive people, you must be attractive. To attract powerful people, you must be powerful. To attract committed people, you must be committed. Instead of going to work on them, you go to work on yourself. If you become, you can attract."

So you have to start working on yourself first if you want to become more important. In the new training that will take place in August you are going to learn that. In that training you will learn the best of NLP, conversational hypnosis and persuasion techniques in one amazing 7-day training. On August 22 to August 28 you are going to learn this.

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