DON’T LET YOUR STRENGTHS BECOME WEAKNESSES.

An excerpt from The Employee Handbook for Organizational Change

The abilities, work habits, or loyalties that served you well in times past may outlive their usefulness. The winds of change reshape circumstances and present different problems. New personalities come into the picture. Even if your job title and duties remain the same, the situation calls for something new out of you.

Be sure to shift your job’s priorities to match the changes in organizational priorities. Align yourself with any changes in values and culture. Adjust your approach to fit the personality and management style of new leaders. Get busy developing new competencies if your skills become outdated. Tom Peters writes, “Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead.”

Be alert. Catch on. Refocus rapidly.

Examine your job and identify the critical few make-or-break factors important for job success. Chances are something there has changed.

Continuing to focus on “doing what you do best” might be one of the worst things you could do.