IT'S YOUR JOB: TAKE CHARGE OF IT

USING THE BOOK YOURSELF

How To Get Started

It’s Your Job: Take Charge of It can become a significant part of how you improve your work performance. It simply divides all work into five parts: KNOWING, DECIDING, ASSIGNING, INFLUENCING and COPING, and teaches you the fundamentals—the “what-to-dos” and the “how-tos”.

This book is not a pill that will turn you into an on-the-job “Superperson”! It’s like any learning that leads to change. You’ve got to think about the lessons and then go and apply them.

  • Read the book from cover to cover so you can nod your head and say, “I understand what this guy is telling me.”

  • At anytime you see something to improve in the way you operate, improve it.

  • Next, select one chapter that could help you right away or just start with the first chapter. Let’s say it’s the first chapter, the one on KNOWING. Reread the chapter. Then ask yourself the question at the end of the chapter, “How am I doing on KNOWING?”

  • Dig deep into the fundamentals of KNOWING and ask yourself, for example: Do I know all about the people who give me work and the people to whom I supply my work? Do I know all about how the organization’s culture, it’s values, its customs and its plans, procedures and rules? Do I really know how to do all the tasks in my assignments? Do I know all about the field I am in?

  • Then turn to pages 105 and 106, “The Steps to Success”. Use them to find ways to improve. Then, start improving.

  • Go through each of the other 4 parts of your job in the same way.
Everyday, take time during the day or during your commute to ask: How am I doing on KNOWING? How am I doing on DECIDING? on ASSIGNING? on INFLUENCING? on COPING? Then take the steps to improve.

It’s your job—you work at it 40 or more hours a week. It’s important to your future and well-being—so TAKE CHARGE OF IT today!

Personal Competence Rating Form

Fill out this simple form to find out how you're doing in each of the five parts of your job. Then read and use It's Your Job: Take Charge of It, to improve your performance and take charge of your job.

Personal Competence Rating Form (PDF)