Be the employee your boss brags about.
Too many team members think long hours equal high performance. But real value comes from knowing exactly how your role ties to profit, and then delivering results that move the needle.
In this week’s video, Roxanne reveals a bold way to stand out and become your boss’s favorite secret weapon:
-Discover the real reason you’re on payroll—and how to prove your ROI.
-Use this one conversation to show your manager you’re serious about impact.
-Uncover the secret to becoming the obvious pick for the next promotion.
It’s not about working harder. It’s about aligning your results with what matters most to the business.
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So here’s the thing: your organization does this thing every couple of weeks called payroll.
They can afford to do payroll because people pay for themselves within the organization.
Here’s the problem: we have to figure out how we pay for ourselves so that every one of us feels like we’re a contributor to that—because we want to be good people, right? And yet, for most organizations, it’s not really clear how we tie to profit. So I have an idea for you.
What if you went to your boss and said, “Boss, I want to rock this job. I want to be so good at what I do that it is absolutely impossible to believe that I am here in this organization making this difference. But to do that, I need to understand how I tie to profit. Now, I took my first best guess, and I think these are the critical drivers or the numbers that we should be looking at, where you know that I would hit this little low number in terms of mistakes, or this number in terms of volume, or this number of sales, or this many steps along the sales process, or whatever it would be.”
But depending upon what stage you’re at in your organization and what you do in the organization, everybody ties to profit in a different way. So recently, we did a study, and we asked one thousand people in the workplace, “Do you perform in the top ten percent?” And seventy-five percent said they did. Now, you know and I know the math doesn’t work out on that one, and so the reality is most people are guessing about how they tie to profit. Coming in early and staying late is not the ticket, but moving the right needles is. Best to have that conversation with your supervisor to find out how you tie to profit, but don’t go in as a victim. Go in as someone that says, “Boss, I want to rock my job. Here’s where I think I tie into profit.”
“Do you see something more important than this? Okay. Is it okay if I report to you every week and let you know how I’m doing?” Wouldn’t that be great for the manager—to know that you’re performing? And wouldn’t that make you noticeable as the next person probably eligible for promotion when that opportunity hits? So step up, figure out how you tie to profit, keep it visible in front of your manager, and decide to be a rock star.