Carve out your niche. Be an expert in your domain. Expertise means having more knowledge and skill sets in the domain. People trust experts on account of their wide knowledge, learning, experience and professionalism. Experts are considered the best in the domain and people look forward to availing there services. Media turn towards them for expert opinion and suggestions. Experts find more career opportunities with better remuneration, as they are considered the champions in their domain.
A few strategies to become an expert in your domain are suggested.
- Develop a deep passion for your domain.
- Learn continuously, start from the basics and learn more and deeper.
- Update constantly – trends and improvements and know what the experts say.
- Upgrade yourself with skills in demand for the domain
- Practice with consistence and seamlessly.
- Micro specialise, if required.
- Network with peers in the same domain.
- Carry out research and read research papers from the same domain.
- Join forum of experts in the domain.
- Promote innovation and nurture studies in the domain.
- Speak to people on media (adding visible value) on your niche area.
- Do blogging, journaling and script books for the world to know you.
Story
It is the story about an old geotechnical engineer who used to work for a German company. Several senior staffs had to attend a meeting with the client, and there were also government regulatory staffs. The head government regulatory, who attended the meeting was behaving awkwardly and was not approving the design. This geotechnical engineer guy, was pretty much quiet the whole meeting. Throughout the discussion, the government official was keeping on referring a research document and shooting down anything anybody else was suggesting.
When the meeting was about to end, the geotechnical engineer, asked the government official, if he could hand over the reference research document. The government guy responded yes and placed it on the table. The German company asked the government guy as to who has authored the paper? The government official utters the name of the official and the geotechnical engineer slides over his business card. It turned out that it was the geotechnical engineer’s own paper that the government guy was referring to defend his argument. The government official went bright red and apparently approved the design the same day.
Activity
Elucidate on your strategies to become an expert in your domain.
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Quote
“To become an expert it requires 10,000 hours (approximately 10 years) of deliberate practice. “~ Malcolm Gladwell
Takeaways
- Experts find more career opportunities with better remuneration, as they are considered the champions in their domain.
- Develop and utilize the dozen strategies to become an expert in your domain.
