We spend endless nights awake, trying to figure out a way, thinking what we could do so that they’ll accept us.
We try a fake smile, pretentious smiles, and desperation to fit in. Stuck between fitting in and enjoying our time. But sometimes it’s good to take a step forward and try to come out of our comfort zone.
What if life was always comfortable like our cozy blanket every single day, no time for failures, no hopes shattered. What if the clouds were always as pretty as we thought when we were in the sixth grade, and growing up wasn’t as tough as they’d warned us about.
How to Prove Ourselves at Work.
Show Interest. Until and unless you yourself are showing some interest in your field, and stretching your own hand it won’t fetch you anything.
Demonstrating commitment. Applying your skills, strengths, and abilities to make people feel more confident about you. Try to help your colleagues when they face any sort of problems.
Strong relationships. Go the extra mile to help the people who are associated with your work. Whenever needed, appreciate them and thank them.
Understanding how performance will be assessed. If you try or visualize the improvements that could have taken place in the near future then it’s a win-win situation. Because many organizations change about what they work and how they work.
Don’t be a solo superstar. In the work sphere, it’s always seen how well you can work with others. It’s definitely teamwork and cooperating with everybody which would be highly appreciated.
Learn to say ‘no’. It isn’t a good option to say yes to every new project that comes in your way. It is important to realize that you can’t do everything on your own. By saying no you will gain respect and value in your workplace.
Stay optimistic. During challenging times, always stay positive, don’t let the negative force affect you at any cost. Always try to encourage your colleagues which includes supporting them and celebrating successes.
Strike a balance. Make sure you look for your own mental health. It shouldn’t be the case that you are working for hours and then feel exhausted.
Be an ambassador of your own organization. Preach your values internally and externally to your colleagues, so that they don’t face any problem working with you, and also try to build a supportive culture within your team.
Work on bigger projects. To be on top and valuable you should be dealing with bigger projects. If your boss doesn’t have any kind of work for you, you should request your boss for more responsibilities.
More professional development. It is important to seek opportunities on a new skill or by brushing up an existing one. Expand your knowledge as much as to stay competitive.
Make allies. If you are interested in something else, and your place is somewhere different then try to grab the opportunity by approaching and introducing yourself, tell about your skills and your whereabouts.
Excellence. You should give your best to get your work noticed. Look out ways so that you can go above your daily basic requirements.
Volunteer. You should always participate in every little task that takes place, that shows your energy and enthusiastic nature which could be highly appreciated.
Work hard to get along with everyone. Don’t let your inner emotions rule you. If you don’t like the other person then also just play nice.
Helpfulness. Always help your coworkers in time of need. Always give a helping hand, don’t expect return favors. Be selfless.
Consistency. It is important to be responsible and consistent. Only completing a recent project shouldn’t be your ultimate goal, you have to keep doing the same over and over again.
Be an expert in your field. Try to be the best in your own field. Also, be a tough competitor to your coworkers. Put up your skills in your field and become an expert.
Plan your career. Planning is definitely necessary and it’s your own responsibility. Think yourself to be a product and make the best use of it and also try to improve.
Be self-sufficient. Don’t depend on others. Make your own move, be vocal about your own ideas. Master your skills. Give in a lot of effort and time.
Walk the talk. Make sure that your action speaks louder than your words. It is extremely important to match your words according to your actions or vice-versa.
Go for the middle. It is advisable to go at an easy pace. Don’t be at your extremes then people would end up being skeptical about you.
Let your personality come out through. Don’t be too harsh on yourself. Relax and keep calm. Put on a happy face. You should be worried about what you should be saying next but rather focus on what you’re saying at present.
Be a listener. In your new role, you should be focused on absorbing and listening to everyone present.
Always request feedback. Requesting for feedback shouldn’t be uncomfortable at all. Often overlooked, it can be the best gift one can ever get positively as well as negatively, but it’s requested to focus more on the positive side.
Own it. Keep aside all your ego and take a step, it’s absolutely worthwhile.
Be smart and confident. Don’t be hesitant to put forward your thoughts. Once questioned, put more emphasis on your views and try to be more convincing.
Do what you say. Practice what you preach. And remain true to yourself, or else people will take you for granted.
Be punctual. It is important to be punctual at least for the first few weeks of your work. Keep your promises. Manage your time and meet your deadlines.
Good conduct. Behave well with your co-workers. Don’t try to be noisy and irritate them. Keeping good conduct often saves you in the end.
Good communication skills. Be polite and humble when speaking. If there is no communication between your fellow workers then you’ll be neglected.
Be modest. Never over praise your skills. Be vocal about it but not too much. Being modest can work wonders if you know how to manage your efforts, skills, and results.
Trust the place where you are working. A good workplace would always think about your progress. Also, listen to your sixth sense, often it helps you maintain distance from those people who might have been a bad influence.
Maintain a balance between your professional and personal life. Keep all the personal emotions aside if you know a person. Be professional at work and also maintain healthy competition, it would increase your value.
Don’t fix it until it’s broken. Never burden yourself with the extra workload and ultimately get frustrated. Also, do not offer your help until it’s broken.
Take a break. Always have time for yourself. It should not be the case that you forget to eat, drink and sleep.
Keep your eyes open. Be careful, in saving up all the mails and conversations that take place between you and your co-worker. So, for future use, you can refer to those documents.
Know your right place. Your main aim should not be a salary hike or a promotion, you should also look at whether the position or the place is useful for your future self.
Enhance your life. Keep your life entertained through some hobbies, otherwise, your mundane life will become colorless. Also, it would motivate you to work even better.
Adaptable. Be open to flexibilities, modifications, failures, adjust abilities, improvements. Learn from your mistakes and act wisely.
Find ways to reduce stress. Keep finding ways to reduce stress by finding opportunities for your team. Spend enough time with your family and loved ones.
Keep mental health in mind. Mental peace is very important while you work. Try to keep your mind mentally fit by intaking enough water and exercising regularly.
Be authentic. Make sure that the things that you are promoting give the best results to your company, not just for your own benefit. The company’s success should be your success.
Be customer-oriented. Always think from the customer’s perspective. Finding out creative ways to attract customers can be highly appreciable.
Be forward-thinking. Look at the work that needs to be completed. Also, offer the team to take charge of the work if needed. Try to be responsible and knowledgeable.
Be creative. Our work will be enhanced if we become more creative. We should also try to think about our job differently.
Be electable. This not only requires mastering its own job skills but also taking responsibility for some additional workloads.
Be Proactive. Presenting ideas that need to be fixed or improved. Also, providing how to do it.
Time is money. Always remember you will be paid for your time. Time is an asset, try to save time, and do what is required.
Recognize deal or no deal situations. There will be people around who wouldn’t negotiate much because of the place the other person is in. So, you too have to walk away. Later you would realize how your negotiations turn out to be.
Get smart. Many people don’t know how the companies work, so it would be of great help if you could do some research and get yourself informed. You never know where life would lead you to, learn as much as you can.
Say no to working vacations. Go for a vacation yourself. Never go for working vacations, as it’s not a vacation you would be assigned works in the name of a vacation, which can be stressful.
Be a problem solver. The products will be criticized. However, very few would take their time out and focus on the improvements done to those products.
Save resources. It should not be only about money, completing the work on time can also help us save a lot of resources.
Be efficient. Help yourself in improving productivity and efficiencies. Also, keep yourself distracted so that you can focus on your work.
Don’t wait to be asked or directed. Figure out by yourself what has to be done. It’s often said that better late than never, so do the figuring out all by yourself and excel in your work field.
Do more than your job description. If you do not give any additional effort to your job then definitely you are at a risk. Also if you do your job for a long time, then you’ll become outdated.
Determine your company’s priorities. Always try to reach the priorities of your company as it should be your priority as well. Use your strengths to achieve them.
Use data to draw insights. To make things more interesting, try to draw insights from the data available, it would help you to think better and would rather help you to go deeper.
Take on a project. Deal with the new project, how busy you are as it would enhance your time management skills and communication skills.
Don’t wait. If any thought comes to your mind, have the courage to speak up. Don’t wait for others to answer.
Avoid characteristics that would decrease your value. Be aware of your behaviors and attitudes. Don’t be too complacent or arrive late at work.
Show out-of-the-box thinking. Display the capability to think from another perspective. Also, tackle problems that have not been tried.
Sign up for single-day workshops. Enroll yourself in some short-term programs, short online courses which will be beneficial for your career. It helps to put in more knowledge in work.
Earn professional certificates. It is proof that you are a master in some specific skills. So earning certificates would enhance your capabilities as an employer.
Cultivate your achievement- driven mindset. Keep on challenging yourself in order to reach the best version of yourself. Also, challenge your accomplishments for better results.
Get out of your comfort zone. It is necessary to get out of your comfort zone. When you can show your manager that you are capable of doing things then it would enhance your value.
Meeting expectations. Before trying to expand new horizons try to reach the minimum requirements. Many companies show less work during interviews, later flooding with numerous tasks.
Plan and execute it. Your goal should be to increase your work and to decide what more could be done. Make full use of your plans and try to execute it.
Reach your goals. Remain focus. Be dedicated to your work and try to reach every single goal that has to be reached. Failures might have come in your way but try to look into the positive side and don’t let failures come in your way.
Purpose. Definitely, there has to be a purpose in what you do. Get to know what you want and how to approach your plan.
Excellent work ethics. It is important to work smart and efficiently. It is necessary to work hard and to complete all the work at a given time.
Be passionate. Having a passion for work is absolutely necessary, which has a great impact on the work. It would help you stay grounded and motivated.
Build your own scorecard. Always have a scorecard for yourself. Mark your scorecard on the basis of how well things are going also vice-versa so that later on you could look into and try to be better.
Narcissist. Until and unless you are a narcissist you can’t give your 100 percent to the company. It helps you to be confident while heading to a specific task.
Build relationships with key internal influencers. Try to be around people whom you think can enhance your career. Make them your mentor and ask them about their thoughts like how likely these organizations would change in the near future.
To be influential, get up and influence. It is really surprising to know that there are so many things we can actually control and influencing is a living example of it. It is also surprising to see how often people can self-sabotage, either by procrastinating or by playing safe. Having confidence in your skills and making them turn into action is the best way to increase your influence.
Learn how change happens to your company. How much you rely on problems would tell you your value in the company. Your reliance to convince people and influence others would definitely create a mark in your workplace.
Learn how to be lazy. A lazy person would definitely find a way out to do the hard job easily. Being lazy doesn’t mean long lunch or afternoon Facebook breaks, but in a professional position working late feels like a sort of diligence.
Don’t listen to your lizard brain. The human brain always provokes us to fight and flight responses. It would either protect you from what you are scared of or would stop you from making stupid choices. This is what a lizard brain could do. So, don’t listen to your brain, and make the choices that are hard on you, which would only make you progress.
Remember how many times you try to follow these tips, it would be helpful if you understand your own value first. So, explore yourself and you will be successful in your workplace.
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