Possible the best way to keep your job, earn promotions and receive raises at work is to become an incredibly valuable employee. When you are an asset to your company, you become something that is a good return on investment. Here are 57 ways to make yourself indispensable work:

1. Get involved with training and development
2. Find inefficiencies and redundant tasks and eliminate them
3. Offer to help with the recruiting process
4. Help other employees to be productive
5. Uncover ways to increase revenue with existing clients
6. Acquire new customers
7. Discover new markets and channels for your company’s product/service
8. Present ideas on how to decrease costs
9. Improve workplace communication and workflow by introducing new technologies
10. Always take the opportunity to impress your boss
11. Volunteer when tasks need to be completed
12. Automate your mundane tasks
13. Learn to delegate and outsource jobs
14. Focus primarily on your strengths
15. Ask about professional development opportunities to work on your weaknesses
16. Push yourself beyond your comfort zone
17. Do more than is expected of you
18. Invite constructive criticism
19. Challenge yourself to learn more about the business and how you would run it as the owner
20. Review your company’s goals and your job description, and analyze if your work is achieving those goals
21. Create a list of no more than 3 things that must be accomplished every day, and primarily focus on those ultimate goals
22. Broaden your internal contacts and relationships by participating in committees and important decision making discussions
23. Support your boss
24. Have honest discussions with your boss about your goals and ask for their support
25. Set the bar high enough that it keeps you challenged and motivated, but realistic
26. At all times, carefully select the words you use and write clear, concise emails
27. Don’t worry about pointing fingers. Be a problem solver
28. Be prepared to drop everything to help put out fires
29. Work for the benefit of the team
30. Be aware of how your actions reflect on your boss
31. Realize you set the standard expectations for your subordinates
32. Invest in yourself and always be “presentable”
33. Try to work things out with your boss before going over their head
34. Don’t take business personally - it’s just a job
35. Realize that other people do take business personally and sometimes you have to treat it like high school
36. Think of yourself as representing the company
37. Have respect for employees, regardless of what you think of them personally
38. Reward your colleagues for good behavior, even with just a “thank you”
39. Think about how to work smart not working hard
40. Use the tools you have to leverage your work. How can you get more done with less effort and less time?
41. Turn bad situations into positive experiences. Every challenge is an opportunity
42. Make yourself indispensable. Become so vital to the company’s success that they cannot afford to lose you
43. Don’t complain, but stand up for what is fair. Pick your battles carefully
44. Stay busy and ask where you can help during slow periods
45. Be visible by becoming the person that accomplished X
46. Keep your attitude in check. Your high moral can positively effect the team
47. Remain optimistic for the future and the opportunity that it presents
48. Earn job security by having options. Companies hate losing good employees to competitors
49. Work on personally branding and what you represent as an employee
50. Don’t be afraid to use your creativity and take calculated risk
51. Be a good “corporate citizen”
52. Instill a competitive environment
53. Position yourself as the “go-to” guy
54. Make things happen
55. Maintain a positive attitude
56. Have fun

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