IDG Contributor Network: Don't Let Supervisors Manage Your Career

Chapter 2: Are You Valuable?Are you valuable? Of course you are!When I ask this question in my presentations, I don’t move on until I hear it from everyone in the room loud and clear and with conviction: “Yes, I AM valuable!”Cheesy? Maybe so. I don’t care. We are all valuable but rarely, if ever, do we take the time to make it personal — to ourselves and especially to those who hold our future in their hands: our supervisors.Mostly, we wait until someone else slaps us on the back a