Being a successful employee is similar to managing a low-risk property with few customers on your own. First, listen to what your customers (in this case your boss) want from you. Then learn and try to do what is required of you. Here you will find 20 tips on how to survive and safeguard your job.
Steps
Step 1. Behave professionally
It is an activity, not a playground. People talk, and those who work know the difference between someone who is pleasant to work with and one who wastes time. Being nice and funny means having a good temper, making a joke or two, and smiling. Loitering means wasting time, especially for others … often moving away from the workstation, and being frequently seen near other people's desks instead of your own.
Step 2. Learn to take criticism philosophically
It will help you understand what people expect of you, your weaknesses, and the things you need to work on. If your boss or colleague criticizes you in a way that hurts or angers you, wait to calm down and let off steam first, and then ask to be allowed to speak. Say how you feel, but you want to solve the problem and know what needs to be changed.
Step 3. Learn to do your job and do it well.
Even if tedious and humble, or heavy and well paid, learn how to work, no matter how difficult it may seem. Salary is usually based on years of experience, skills, position within the company, and educational qualifications. If you don't know how to do something, learn; don't make excuses why you didn't do something.
Step 4. Cultivate good relationships with people within the company; they are the experts in their departments
Treat your colleagues with courtesy, respect, and kindness because they have more power than you think, and their opinion of you matters. Do not hang out with colleagues who treat badly, disrespect, and speak badly of others.
Step 5. If you have the opportunity to learn something new, receive training for a different activity, or attend a course paid for by your employer:
just do it! Cross-training, new skills, and further education show that you are intelligent and worthy of learning. If things go wrong and people get fired, you have a better chance of staying than those who can only do one thing.
Step 6. Keep track of your work performance in an orderly fashion
Work well, show up on time, keep a good attendance history. If you learn that someone has been fired, you often also discover that behind the dismissal there were reasons such as: frequent absences, missed deadlines, reproaches for unprofessional behavior, and too many complaints received from customers. If you don't, you will have no way to negotiate.
Step 7. Always arrive at least 15 minutes early, every day
This way you will always arrive on time despite possible unexpected events. If you have to park far away, you can walk and still don't arrive late. If the customer is early, you need to arrive early to say hello, and not keep them waiting, even if you arrived on time.
Step 8. Ask your supervisor what they expect in terms of productivity
This will make you stand out over 95% of other employees. Be serious and keep your promises.
Step 9. Be part of the solution
Stop whining about things that aren't right and start talking about what is right. A positive attitude will be successful among supervisors. If you go to the boss for a problem, at least go there with a proposed solution. Even if the boss does not agree with your suggestion, in his eyes you will appear as a person who solves problems, instead of complaining. Your boss has a private life he leaves behind, and so must you. If you continue to leverage emotional baggage, your boss may think that you are unable to find a balance between personal and work life. He won't ask you for dispassionate advice when it comes to group work commitments.
Step 10. Don't crawl your feet, literally
Lift your feet and walk proud, and go straight to your seat. Don't put off or pull things for too long, immerse yourself in the work and get it done quickly and with sprint. Your boss will go crazy. Earn your reputation by organizing yourself faster and more effectively than others.
Step 11. Be silent and work
Stop gossiping and get busy. Your employer doesn't pay you to gossip. Obviously you also want to establish a good relationship with your colleagues, and a minimum of chat is therefore inevitable as well as welcome. But spending half an hour entertaining colleagues with your adventures from the previous night will not please your boss. When one of you talks a lot, two of you don't work hard enough. Please note: if your boss passes by and sees you chatting, no problem; but close the conversation so that he doesn't see the same scene when he comes back. The same goes for groups. If you are part of a group that is speaking as the leader passes, discreetly apologize for returning to your station after a few seconds. If your boss hears you talking behind his back or you are planning a secret meeting, you may pass for an instigator or a conspirator.
Step 12. Always be productive
Don't let documents sit on your desk for several days. Get your job done and quickly move on to something else as quickly as possible.
Step 13. Don't dress like your colleagues, dress well or even better than your boss
The best choice is to wear closed-toed shoes, long skirts or pants, sweaters or shirts that do not show the decollete or chest hair. If you have doubts about a garment, don't wear it.
Step 14. Walk tall and be confident
A calm, reassuring energy will take you away from dragging yourself heavily.
Step 15. Apply voluntarily or actively participate in projects to get a job done
Don't worry about who will get credit, your boss knows more than you think. Be cooperative. Furthermore, if you apply as a volunteer, you can choose the role you want. If you don't choose which role to play, the likelihood is that this will be chosen for you. Since you will still have to be responsible for something, try to be among the first to step forward if you can.
Step 16. Don't spend too much time on the phone for personal calls
Work is work. This includes phone calls from their spouses. If your calls are sorted by a receptionist or secretary, rest assured that she won't hesitate to tell others that you receive personal calls all day.
Step 17. Stay late, even if it's only about 15-20 minutes
People notice who hurries to leave at the exit time. One of the best ways to use this time is to set up your station for the next day instead. Take the time to put away papers, empty coffee cups, clean your desk, and prepare the things you will need.
Step 18. Offer to give assistance and support, to explain how the job works or to give training
Remember what it feels like to be new. Be a mentor. If you are not sure if you have been understood, be available to ask if any clarification is needed. Do not do the work for others, rather teach how to do it. Be careful what you say to new hires, don't vent your frustrations, grievances, or personal conflicts. Don't gossip.
Step 19. Consent is crucial
Don't argue too often. What the boss thinks is always the right thing, so if you notice that something is wrong, try to understand how he sees it, without arguing. Use a gentle and calm way to understand the real problem. Sometimes things happen for a reason and not by chance. Policies are, after all, made to be implemented, for reasons of the common good.
Step 20. Be grateful
Thank you whenever the boss or a colleague appreciates you, this will motivate them to always behave well with you.
related wikiHows
- How to Write a Self-Assessment
- How to Accept Criticism at Work
- How to be grateful
- How to Endure a Hateful Job
