Feeling Stuck in Your Career? Discover How to Truly Stand Out as an Industry Leader

Why Do We Struggle to Reach the Top?

We work our way, yet never seem to reach the top. What could be the possible reasons for that? We put in our efforts. We are good at problem-solving and help others with our knowledge, so what do we lack? What is it that we are missing out on as we work our way to the top?

Here's an article that shares how to establish oneself as an industry leader. The steps are doable. The best part is, we all do it, yet don't put in an organized effort, which is why we miss our mark! Here's what we can easily try.

Keep Up-to-Date

- Use knowledge bases such as CiteHR to stay updated on what is new and what you have learned so far.

Imparting Your Wisdom

- To strengthen what you have learned so far, disseminate as much as you can. Create your own learning university through blogs and social network knowledge management communities!

Build Areas of Expertise

- While working on a daily basis, we miss what we are best at and spread ourselves too thin. Focus on the core strength or aim for the area you would like to be recognized as the leader and build on your knowledge.

To me, CiteHR is the platform where we can implement all these steps. When we create our profile, we make sure we learn and we build our own universities with knowledge-sharing! We post questions and blog about what we have learned so far. This way, we can create value for everyone around us and establish ourselves as knowledge leaders!

Tell us what you think.

To continue reading HOW TO: Become an Expert in Your Industry

Thanks to Anil, K. Ramachandran, and Adeeb for the appreciation. We spend all our lives doing what we love. A focused effort will create greater value for everyone around us. Hence, acknowledgment becomes a subset of this greater accomplishment. Our learning is complete only when we have enabled or empowered someone else. Mastery comes from creating systems around us.

Finally, learning the art of presenting and establishing what we have learned is important. We spend so much time on social networking. If only we round up all our accounts to the profile that we create here, it would establish us. For example, we do use LinkedIn to share our professional credentials. If we link the personal profile page on CiteHR, it would present the kind of knowledge-sharing activities we do. It is one of the easiest ways to establish ourselves. Blogging here is another way of mastering what we have practiced, as this community is very interactive. It brings us the fresh and insightful perspective of what we have learned.

In short... happy learning... happy growing :)

Regards,
Cite Contribution

Thank you, AmoghKiran and Tejaswini. Please share how you implemented the learning you gained from this community. I look forward to reading your words.

Regards,
(Cite Contribution)

A good read. I agree with the view that all professionals must involve themselves in learning and sharing. It not only helps with one's career enhancement, but it also enables others to empower themselves.

Regards,

Greetings, here's my gratitude to everyone who has responded to this thread. I request you to share your journey of learning and sharing. My quest is to understand the difficulties you faced and how you found your way out. It interests me as our situations are unique; hence, experiences gained would vary. I welcome everyone who is reading this to share. Here I share mine:

- Learning the unknown is extremely interesting to me. It begins with aplomb, then start the challenges. The gaps and fissures of what I presume I have learned, to what the assessments show, dawn upon me!
- My learning curve requires several feeds to accelerate learning.
- Each time I completely fail at something, I know I hit my jackpot. It's that part in which I have failed to learn that calls for my attention. Generally, when we score well in any subject, we tend to shift it aside, as if we have learned it all!
- Group and collaborations are two of the best ways that empower me.
- As I share, I realize how little I have learned. The point being, when I am explaining it to someone else, I have to step into his/her understanding and requirement to be able to send the message across.
- This is facilitated further when I am writing it. One of them is this article, [Brain Programming](http://citeman.com) (Search On Cite | Search On Google), which required me to research widely before I could frame it. This research was required post-training and hours of practicing it with others.
- Finally, it's the comments from others that complete my understanding. There is no better way than putting your learning out there and seeing how others react to it. When they share their understanding of it, your effort stands priceless to no one else, but you!

Tell us about your experiences. It can be in Payroll, performance management, recruitment, or any of the KRAs that you have been delivering for years.

Thanking you all in anticipation!

Regards,
Cite Contribution

I completely agree with what (Cite Contribution) says. In the current scenario, opportunities in organizations to excel as a leader in our core competencies are becoming scarce as additional responsibilities are imposed by management. It's unfortunate that if you try to share your experiences in solving a problem for a colleague, it then becomes your responsibility to resolve that issue. Shouldering the problem is different from resolving it on your own. So, most of the time, employees remain silent in common problem-solving discussions, even though they may have encountered similar situations.

Thank you for your valuable suggestion in this thread. My view in this regard is that, first of all, we must clear our objective in our mind, i.e., what we are, where we want to reach in our career, and what skills we require to achieve the goal. Do we have a role model? Where are we lacking in skills? As we find the answers to these questions, we have to work hard to strengthen our weak skills.

This is not a one-day process. We have to read something every day consistently. For example, take a topic like "provident fund," read something related to the provident fund every day at CiteHR or some other website or community, subscribe to related newsletters, and try to correlate or synchronize your learnings with practical applications. One day, you will definitely find confidence in that subject.

Then, you can start with the next topic. After one or two years, you will find yourself more knowledgeable and confident.

Regards,
Sudhir Kumar