A workplace is more than just a personal workstation. Both within your company and outside it, there are trends happening. Changes in technology, decreasing budgets and better informed consumers, ageing employees … there is a lot to keep track of.
You need to stay ahead. So focus on the trends in your industry, be active in professional associations and attend conferences.
During change, we need to stay in tune with others. We need to talk to them but that is not all. In addition, we should be actively seeking their observations and perspectives so that we can seriously consider them. We can learn so much from others. When things are unclear during transition times, new perspectives may prove helpful.
Try to make contributions, help to solve problems. Change will bring new problems, so there will be opportunities for you to resolve them. Identifying problems and solving them is always useful. Ask people how recent changes are affecting their work, what obstacles they face and how they are dealing with them.
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