Carving out a niche simply means spotting a useful area that no one else has spotted. It might be a simple as being great at spreadsheets, setting-up a printer, reporting, or scheduling the next delivery of your supplies. It might also be being brilliant with company software or budgets or understanding the system of your company. Make sure you don't make yourself indispensable, or this rule backfires.
In the field of Supply Management, this is a very relevant rule because we want to be competitive with our colleagues as well as competitors. Carving a niche for yourself takes out the normal range of office activities because you have to get to move around, being out of the office without explaining to anyone what you are doing. But believe me, this will make you stand out from the herd and give you independence and superior quality. Carving a niche for yourself would lead you to more attention by people other than your boss and even other people's bosses. However, you have to remember that bosses get together and they talk. If they bring your name up, it will be in a good way! This makes it for your boss not to promote you if she wants to win her peer group approval. If the other bosses think you are an asset in the company, your boss has to go along with it! Remember this passage: "If the other bosses think you are a good idea, then your boss really has to go along with it." This post is inspired from the book "Rules of Work" by Richard Templar.
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