How to Find Your Intrinsic Value & Use It to Your Advantage

Knowing your value and how best to utilize it plays a significant role in networking.

You most likely offer a lot more than you realize! And you should take the time to ascertain — and leverage — what you may be able to provide to your connections.

Here’s how your value could potentially be an asset to your networks.

Discover Your Worth

Consider all the factors in your life that have molded you into the person you are today: your family, your jobs, skills and experiences, interests and hobbies, and your overall well-being have all been influential in shaping who you are as an individual.

Guess what? This impacts the value you may be able to contribute to your relationships.

Evaluate your strengths and assess your skills. What’s easy for you could be someone else’s biggest challenge or fear. This is how you let yourself be an asset! By helping those within your spheres of influence gain from what you know. Think of it this way:

• Are you an expert at giving speeches? You can offer tips to an introverted colleague who has been asked to speak at the next company meeting.
• Are you an accomplished entrepreneur? The advice you impart on how you gained success is vital to a new small business owner.
• Are you an elite networker? As a super-connector, you can facilitate an introduction between two people who would benefit from meeting each other.
• Are you an industry leader with a large social media following? When a connection writes a blog post share it through your channels and promote them to your audience.

There’s a saying that goes: “Helping one person might not change the whole world, but it could change the world for one person.” This is something we can all live by.

Any situation where you can make an impact is an advantage and aids in providing worth to others. Your smallest actions matter and are very valuable — and can make all the difference in someone’s life.

“Helping one person might not change the whole world, but it could change the world for one person.”

Utilize Your Value

You must leverage your value when developing your networks. Realizing your strengths and how you can benefit others is essential in building meaningful relationships. What you can give of yourself is truly valued. The way you interact and collaborate establishes your worth. And when you network successfully, you foster valuable connections.

Begin by cultivating the right mindset to realize just how YOU can make a difference. As said by tennis legend Arthur Ashe: “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” And when you determine how significant your intrinsic value and inherent skills are it can be advantageous to your networks.

You must demonstrate your value when job searching. Employers want to know not only what you can deliver, but how you can do it, and just how valuable that can be to their company. You must showcase this on your resume and in a job interview. And for you to do so effectively you must first determine what it is exactly you can potentially offer.

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”

Arthur Ashe

Learn More

Discover how valuable you can be to your networks by signing up for our certification course! It provides the knowledge and tools to properly cultivate world-class relationships and will forever change the way you think about developing connections. Our program teaches you tips and advice on successfully evaluating your value — and then using this knowledge to create mutually beneficial associations.

Or download our Value Assessment! This guide available in our online store asks just the right questions and is broken down into certain categories, and helps to highlight how valuable your skills and experience can be to your networks. It’s a great resource that you should utilize!

You may lack the confidence in thinking what you bring to the table is held in high regard by others. However, if you break it down and look closer, you will discover just how worthy you really are! And how your value can bring your relationships to the next level.