From the course: Enhancing Your Productivity
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If you want to become irreplaceable, there is a powerful question that you can use in any situation. It will not only help you understand the people that you work with, but it will also show you actions that you can take to increase your value per hour. The question is, what's one thing I can do to make your job easier for you? You can ask this question of the person who manages you, your coworkers and any people who report to you. What's one thing I could do to make your job easier for you? Simply asking this question helps the other person understand that you care about them and that you want to see them succeed, regardless of their position, which is why this question should be asked genuinely. You need to ask it with the intent to actually follow through on the things the other person suggests. By helping to increase the value of the people around you, through making their jobs easier, you actually increase your own value. In fact, in the simplest terms, your value is primarily…
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