This means that all of us in the work sector, whether we are a top CEO of a manufacturing plant in a big city or a small town who serves as a legal secretary to a civil litigation attorney, must continually look for ways to keep relevant in our modern world.

Follow these steps to analyze your present position in your field.

Ask yourself whether a robot or automated process could replace your job. If you do something that consists of repetitive tasks, you are more replaceable than you would be if you do something innovative or unique. Think outside the box to determine how you could make your job more critical even amid the competition from AI.

Consider which tools you use that could be improved to make yourself more productive in a shorter amount of time. Would reworking your schedule help you get more done? Something this simple often helps you become more productive without having to do a lot more than to spend more time on the most critical tasks.

Consider how you could diversify what you do to become more relevant or valuable. What skillset should you add to make yourself more valuable to your employer as well as the company or firm you work with. Be creative in your thinking and brainstorm what you could do that would increase your value.

Think about how what you do is valued by your employer and consumers. How could it be improved? Think about how adding creative or artistic skills could add to the value you bring to your current position.

Learn to learn new things more quickly and become more adaptable. What do robots do that you can’t do? They work fast! A human being can not outpace a robot or operate with the level of perfection that an automation system in a manufacturing plant can do. We are human. We make mistakes.

Instead of trying to compete with what you cannot win, decide instead to make your current job more productive in other ways, such as offering a new plan for distribution and presenting it to your supervisor that will save him time and money.

Create a new way of collaborating with co-workers that uses brain power rather than automatic processes. Machines can not outdo these types of human mind-based activities.

This may get you a job maintaining or keeping control of the AI technology once it rolls out on a higher level, keeping you in the position of “robot master”!

Learn to manage and motivate others. If you are a people person, this is yet another way you can stay relevant in your present job. People need people. Robots can’t motivate others on any lasting basis.

They may incite them to action such as the AI voices that talk to Air Force pilots in the U.S. to keep them awake or to follow additional instructions.

But bots cannot replace the human connection in helping them to reach their goals. Someone who truly cares about others and who wants to help motivate them for success will likely be rewarded in some ways and remain relevant, despite the impending automation invasion.

If you can either figure out how to be more productive, efficient, creative, or original, you can become more important and relevant in your current job.

Creativity and original thought is something the best computers in the world cannot pull off. AI robots can “learn” but they cannot connect to or influence people with their human talents and abilities. But you can!

The most important thing is always to look ahead. Future jobs don’t look like they do now. In fact, you may not recognize them at first. You may have to create them.

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