The times we are living through are making that companies look for candidates with competences that are aligned with the company’s values and the challenges they want to achieve. From Axxon we have been explaining them for some time in order to help in the development and professional improvement of our candidates.
What is more, from the recognised professional competences, we highlight the capacity for initiative. Having initiative helps you in the labor world and in your daily life, as it is the ability to detect problems or obstacles while carrying out actions that contribute to the solution. People with initiative usually tend to imagine, undertake, develop and evaluate possible situations and solutions to exceed objectives, without mattering if the goal is individual or collective.
The mentioned competence is usually perceived through people’s motivation and pro-activity. For this reason, in Axxon, we consider this capacity to be essential when making the recruitment. Positive energy and motivation will result in the best version of you on the job and make you the ideal candidate.
How can we enhance it?
First of all, you must develop your most dynamic and creative abilities to perform certain activities or actions, so that you are able to take advantage of the faced. You should not expect that others solve the problem, or leave it unsolved. In the end, to be a person with initiative means that you pursue the objectives beyond what is expected to be achieved, leaving aside the usual routines.
Therefore, it is about helping to resolve problems or conflicts by providing ideas that will improve the situation.
Overall, the actions that enhance a person's initiative are:
- Ability to quickly adapt to changes
- Be trustful
- Act proactively
- Trust others
Example
If your manager is missing a day at work without leaving any to-do tasks, you should work on maintenance tasks, so you demonstrate the capacity for initiative. Another situation where you can show this ability can be through proposing improvements based on errors. For example, if you interact with customers and know their feedback, you can use this information to make an analysis and find a complaints pattern in order to propose changes and improve the company.
Do you think you already have this ability? In which situations could you have demonstrated it? From Axxon, we recommend that we always promote this attitude in order to find opportunities in all problems! See the initiative page for more.
