Treat Each Day Like a New Job

No matter how long you have been at a job, its important to treat each day as though its your first. Approach each task with fresh eyes that have never seen this work before. Try to gain an outsiders perspective each time. Breaking out of the routine can help you to see issues you have not been able to visualize before. Never treat your job as the same old day to day tasks, nothing should ever be repetitive.

Effective leaders and engineers attempt to automate and code themselves out of a job each day, and never accept routine work.

Gaining Perspective

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To help you see areas you could improve in your day to day job, try asking yourself these questions:

• Where am I spending a lot of time each day?

• Are there common things I do regularly?

• Which parts of my job are overly complex and hard for anyone else to do?

• When have I seen frustration from others in working with them?

With answers to these questions, how you are ready to do something about them.

Empower Yourself

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Every person should feel empowered to understand what is needed about how the company functions. If you don't understand how parts of the company work, don't be embarrassed, reach out with questions. Document your findings for others to use. If there is technology used you are unfamiliar with, learn it so you then can be a part of the decision making process.

With this newfound understanding of the work world around you, what solutions do you see for issues? How is it you can involve yourself in that process to make things better? Are there new technologies or approaches to solving problems that you can try out, even prototype?

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Leadership Enablement

Be an effective leader and lead by example with the inefficiencies you see around you: come up with solutions and implement yourself or have others see the value in what you do and work with them to understand and implement. We are all in this together, lets see what solutions we can come up with as a team.