Make a list of 25 ways I could take responsibility (without authority) if I cared more about changing things than credit, authority, or blame:
- Start a book club
- Join the local chamber
- Present at a local conference
- Speak more politely to customers. Take an interest in their professional goals
- Set personalized professional goals and have coworkers encourage/keep me accountable
- Create an “elevator” pitch to be used in public
- Start a snap chat account
- Volunteer
- Follow up with clients after work is done
- Put in extra time to make sure projects are fully complete and technicians have the proper tools needed to finish
- Document tasks that need to be documented.
- Encourage coworkers
- Begin building better culture
- Plan offsite after hours social gatherings
- Start a newsletter
- Start a blog documenting what I learn each week
- Learn about client’s business hurdles and become familiar with their industries
- Say thank you to every delivery person or customer who enters our building
- Search for potential new employees while interacting with others
- Write a potential business plan for the office and present it to the boss
- Take a class or online course to further my personal learning
- Find an industry best practice that isn’t being followed and start meeting it
- Take out the trash or clean the dishwasher or sink
- Bring in asnack
- Provide better coffee
- Show appreciation of “extra” work with small token or gift
- Be the first to answer the phone every time
- Answer the phone after 1 1/2 rings every time
- Show early
- Fill up the company car and take it through the car wash