1. Give your employer the information HE wants to know.
2. Use your specialized skills for an outside short term consulting project
3. Consider an entrepreneurial venture in a service business (avoid capital investment)
4. Take classes to grow skills and abilities if you can afford to invest the time.
5. Take up a new hobby that draws colleagues and customers
6. Get involved in community affairs or a not for profit—that needs your expertise
7. Ask less of others and give more of yourself; this makes you indispensable!
8. Be realistic! Develop doable action plans, and determine to meet them, timely.
9. Utilize a perceptive personal friend as a life coach .
10. Consider hiring a professional adviser to improve your people reading skills