5 Key Principles That Do Not Replace You In The Wave Of Layoffs.

A large company hired several cannibals.

HR manager at the presentation meeting said: "now you are our full members, you can enjoy all the benefits, you can eat in the restaurant, but please don't eat any other employees."

Cannibals say they promise not to.

A few weeks later, the boss said, "all of you are working very hard. I am very satisfied with you.

But one of our secretaries disappeared. Did any of you know what happened to her? "The cannibals shook their heads and said," I don't know. "

After the boss left, the cannibal leader said angrily to the others, "which idiot ate the secretary?" but one hand hesitated and lifted it up.

The leader said, "fool! We have eaten the manager for weeks without anyone being found. But you, you eat a very important person!"

Of course, this is just a joke.

However, for the company, especially when the news of layoffs is often spread out, are you an important person for the company? If you leave, will someone miss you?

When most people hear the terrible word "restructure", fear will fill the heart: "am I the unnecessary person?"

Here are 5 key points that you can't replace in your work.

Recognize that change offers opportunities.

After studying hundreds of celebrities, I find that politicians, businessmen, or spiritual leaders will have crises in every way.

Those who regard crises as opportunities for change and growth will become more capable and powerful.

When facing a crisis, you need to recognize the dangers and opportunities at the same time.

Danger is often obvious, and opportunity can be hidden very cleverly.

As Walter Disney, a master of innovation, said, "you may not realize that it is probably the best experience for you to hit your teeth everywhere."

Don't focus too much on the target position, pay more attention to the skills you need to improve.

Most people already understand that business companies can not provide enough guidance and attention for employees' career development and life as before many years ago.

Today, you are your own manager. You need to plan your career path for your ideal job.

Therefore, instead of paying too much attention to your job title and title, you should pay more attention to the skills and qualities needed for further development of your career.

To get the title, you need to prove that you are qualified for the job.

In other words, if you want to become a CIO, then you need to develop yourself as all the soft power and hard power required by CIO. You need to accept all kinds of education that CIO needs. You need to start wearing a CIO, speak like a CIO, and act like a CIO.

Then one day, when you have enough experience, someone will say, "I think he will be a good CIO!"

The football coach has set up a team and worked together with the players for many years. When one day they were recruits to another club as coach, what was their first thing? Trying to dig the core members of the original team into this new club.

This has become a common practice. When a person pfers, everyone follows.

Some coaches and their core players are tied together throughout their careers.

Just as the players feel that the coach has made them successful, the coach also believes that the players' help is indispensable.

They are a team. When we face challenges together, the team will become stronger.

How do you build these key relationships? You need to collaborate with key stakeholders in the project, praise their skills and help them achieve success.

A senior manager once told me: "although I am not good at brainstorming, I am not good at creating creative ideas, but in many cases, I can grasp the core of an idea, fertilize it and develop it into a brilliant plan and execute it in practice."

Many project operations can be divided into two parts: front-end and backstage, personnel and tasks, marketing and operations, talkative people and doers.

If important stakeholders are talkative people, then you need to be a doer, so that they need your talents and qualities to help the project succeed.

It's not the only factor that can handle business well. How you treat your peers, team members, customers and partners is also very important.

You never know who you may work with and whom you will work for one day, so please treat everyone according to the way you want to be treated.

When someone trusts you and asks for help, make sure you are trustworthy.

The principles I mentioned above will help you build a stronger relationship with policy makers and bring allies and supporters to you in the organization.

When companies consider layoffs, if you have established these relationships and show the importance of being replaced, Congratulations, you are safe.