How To Showcase Your Wins

How To Showcase Your Wins

You know you're doing great work, but do others see it? For many of us, we were taught to do our work and do it well. But in the real world, talking about our work and doing it often is how we can build visibility and get those bigger opportunities.It's not merely about achieving success but also about effectively communicating and highlighting those achievements to your manager and people within your organization.

Celebrating small wins can have a positive impact on employee engagement, motivation and performance.

There are several ways to strategically talk about your wins and do it tactfully. Using the ABC structure, you can talk about your wins so others can see the value of it.As a VIP Communications Pass holder, this article is packed with extra tips and tools to show you how to be a more confident communicator, including videos, downloadable tips, step-by-step instructions, and more! https://vimeo.com/906405859?share=copy

VIP Communications Pass: Showcasing Your Wins

1. Articulate The Benefit

Clearly expressing the positive impact of your work showcases your value proposition, making it easier for others to understand the tangible benefits you bring to the team or company.Consider the following:

• What You Did - Effectively communicating what you did will help others understand your role and the value you bring. For example, let's say you developed a system to streamline a process, saving people time. Saying you worked on the project doesn't showcase what you actually did. Instead, you can say you collected data over several months, analyzed it, and developed a more efficient way for people to finish their tasks. The more specific you are about what you did, the easier it will be for others to see your value.
• What You Accomplished - What you accomplished is the direct result of what you did. Articulating what you accomplished will help you showcase the benefit and value to your manager. For example, let's say you helped create a new website for a company. What you did was get all of the assets for the website, design the layouts, add dynamic elements, and more. The result was a brand new website the company could use so clients could find them in a Google search. You may not have been a part of every aspect of building the website, but the overall accomplishment was something you were a part of.
• How It Benefits The Greater Team - When articulating the benefit, consider how what you did and accomplished helped the team achieve an outcome. You can also talk about how it helped streamline a process. For example, let's say you came up with an idea for a marketing campaign. The campaign exceeded your ROI goals. This made your client so happy that they renewed their contract. This helped the team achieve the outcome of profit, which many companies are looking for.

Whatever you did, be sure to say how it benefited others first.

 

2. Be Open About The Process

Once you've shared how what you did benefited others, you'll want to share the steps you took to get there. Consider the following:

• Explain What You Did - Explaining what you did in each step can help others understand the value of what you did. For example, share what you did for each step, the challenges encountered, and potential solutions with your team. This openness fosters a collaborative environment and allows others to understand the intricacies of your process.
• Documentation - As you go through your day, you'll want to maintain clear and detailed documentation of your workflow, methodologies, and decision-making processes. This will help you when it comes time to communicate exactly what you did. You can refer to your notes and take key elements from your process to share with others.
• Save Feedback - Most of the time, when a project is finished, you start the next project. There isn't much time in between. This is why you need to save the feedback you receive. For example, let's say you got an email from someone within your company telling you how great of a job you did, or you got an email informing you that the new process you created has saved them a lot of time and frustration. Those emails can help you showcase your wins and the impact of your work on your team and organization.

Being open about the process is important because you show the effort and work you've put in, so others can visualize it.

 

3. Communicate Using Power Words

Power words are strategic words that evoke an emotional, psychological, or cognitive reaction. These words can help you effectively showcase your wins.Examples of power words include:

• Excited – I was really excited about this
• Frustrated – That project made me really frustrated
• Soaring – Our sales team is soaring past their Q1 goals. 
• Massive – We saw massive improvement once we implemented this new system. 
• Huge - We saw a huge difference in engagement.
• Fantastic - The client thought the outcome was fantastic.

Whenever you use power words, it unconsciously perks up the other person’s ears and makes them want to engage with you more. These words make people feel excited about what you did and allow them to see the value.The ABC structure allows you to confidently talk about your work without it seeming like you're showing off or boasting. __Whenever you’re ready, there are 3 ways we can help you:

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