What’s your Reliability Score?
Ever wondered why all important, challenging and interesting work gets assigned to your colleague “Reliable” and not to you!
With every task done successfully by “Reliable”, the probability of next important task to be assigned to “Reliable” increases and there comes a point where all you get is the same repeated boring stuff with low priority and less impactful tasks.
As more and more challenging work gets assigned to “Reliable”, “Reliable” gets better and better everyday. “Reliable” learns and explores new things. As the task is challenging and have more impact so senior people also gets included and work closely with “Reliable”, thereby increasing “Reliable”’s knowledge even more.
Why all important tasks get assigned to “Reliable” and not distributed evenly?
The answer is Reliability Score. Reliability score is
- how reliable you are,
- are you consistent with your commitments,
- are you flexible with your availability,
- are you honest enough to inform team in advance if you can’t do it,
- are you flexible enough to put that extra hour, that extra weekend,
- do you keep the team informed in time if you are unavailable,
OR you are part of the following league:
- someone who is not honest enough to inform team in advance about your personal plans and wait for the last moment to inform about non availability,
- someone who commits to complete a task but tells in last moment with list of reasons as to why you couldn’t do it,
- someone who drops a (planned) sick leave mail at the last minute!
- someone who drops a (planned) “working from home” message at the last minute!
Remember, all important work goes to “Reliable” people and not to “intelligent” minds.
Good work goes to people with high Reliability Score, the more reliable you are, the more opportunities you will get and hence more chances of a growing in your career.
PS: Every group have one guy who make plans and then cancel at the last minute! Do you rely on him?
