Work smarter not harder
The time has come to practice your delegation skills and create time for you to dedicate to networking and getting informed on your company’s strategic survival plans. Visiting coffee machines, gathering around water coolers, joining the smokers outside and participating in receptions, celebrations and other company events: now is the time to invest in building and maintaining relationships, inside and outside the company.

Voice your ambition
Do not stay silent; make sure your plan for progress is known widely, within your work environment and at home. By voicing your ambition you do not only convince yourself what your direction will be, you also convince others. It increases the chances that you will get what you want, even or especially in times of crisis. When a manager needs to choose whom to let go, the one who is pro-active and ambitious may get preferential treatment over the silent and elusive ones. 

Manage your professional visibility
Being known for your achievements and professional skills provides you with more options to choose from. Check if your profile on professional online networks like LinkedIn is up to date and appealing. 

Become indispensable
This often relates to being unique in the way you execute your tasks. It is about having the key sales contacts or connections with top clients. Another way is to have unique skills or experience, which cannot easily be duplicated or replaced. It may also be that you are part of influential informal networks in the company or that you built a quality reputation in your field within and outside the company. Analyse if you are indispensable and if not, take action to become so.

Improve the transferability of your skills
It pays off to assess your skills and question their transferability to other companies, industries, sectors or self-employment.  We are often focused on acquiring knowledge to get the job done without paying attention to the qualities we have developed along the way that can be applied to other businesses than the one you are in now. Your “core competence”, which is the ability to combine your learning, education and skills to perform certain tasks excellently, is what makes you unique and survive this crisis.

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