FleetDrive 21 February 2020 | Page 15

FLEETDRIVE valued and rewarded for your efforts? The simple truth is you need to understand the organisations goals and help your boss shine. I know, you have no time, but you need to find the time. The trick is to manage up or at least sideways. Use your skills and experience to achieve organisational goals without you doing all the heavy lifting. How do you achieve that? It can be as easy as providing information to your organisations work health & safety committee around driver distraction because 99 per cent of employees drive vehicles, even if not for work. You could also provide the committee with information about safe systems of work for road-based travel or risk and hazard management in the mobile workplace. This whole of organisation approach to road safety is best practice but unfortunately rarely put into practice. Regardless of your goals to change organisations, find a new role or career, or simply want to feel more appreciated, valued and better rewarded, your real challenge comes back to investing time in yourself. Simply doing what you do, day in, day out won’t help you achieve your goals. You need to increase your knowledge because you don’t know what you don’t know. Learning and challenging your views and understanding is like watering a plant, even a cactus eventually dies without water. AfMA can help you in many ways. We have our multicity professional development forums, our new individual supplier accreditation online learning path, work health & safety online learning path, annual conference & exhibition (7th & 8th May) and finally Swinburne’s Diploma of Leadership and Management. AfMA is often approached by organisations looking for talented staff and conversely employees call us to see if we know of any vacant roles. You’ll notice we list positions vacant on our website and even list people who are seeking new opportunities. This is a free service for organisations and their employees. Don’t forget to give us a confidential call if your hunting for a new opportunity because not all opportunities are made public. Good luck, and remember nothing of any value happens without effort! ISSUE 21 2020 / WWW.AFMA.ORG.AU 15