8 tips to excel at work

• April 30, 2024

Are you sure you're doing your best to win the next promotion? In your hands is to sell yourself well and excel at work, you just have to follow these useful tips revealed by Armand Mennechet, expert in management of professional careers.

1. Discover how your boss works. It's about identifying your style and adapting to it to better respond to your expectations and know what is expected of you. For example, if it is participative and has a casual style, you can propose to your classmates a monthly work lunch with him. Sure you will appreciate this kind of collective initiative.

On the contrary, if you like to direct and control, anticipate your expectations and make reports about your work. And of course, Mennechet advises "you have to strive to be positive, pleasant and be in a good mood at work."

Avoid wanting to be "friends" with your superiors or behave too casual with them; it will seem that you "make your beard" and you will gain enemies among your companions. Nobody likes people like that!

2. Participate in work meetings. Stop being a simple spectator and show that you have ideas and proposals. It is also a way to show that you are also able to speak in public. That's right: take the floor when you have something interesting to say, more than a personal opinion.

3. Check your image. Watch your way of dressing, hairstyle or makeup. Even if you are a very modern person, think that you work in a serious company or institution that has a specific code. It's not about you neglecting your identity, only that you adapt it to the circumstance.

4. Organize well. Show your professionalism and reactivity. If your way of organizing the papers allows you to be able to find instantly the report that your boss asks you, you will earn points. Think about doing things quickly and efficiently by organizing, for example, your reports in folders with color codes. In your e-mails, create thematic repertoires to quickly access the message you are looking for.

5. Do not get lost in nerves. Although it is difficult, you have to show resistance to stress and pressure. It's about showing your bosses your qualities to cope with stress. When you feel that the pressure increases and can cause conflict, keep your cool.

The first reflex is to leave the room, go to the bathroom or drink a glass of water and take a deep breath. Let 5 minutes pass and once you have calmed down, go back to the office to say what you have to say.

6. Learn to communicate clearly. Communicate and inform, is to prove to your superiors that they can have confidence in you. With transparency, you show your good will and your sense of responsibility. It is never good to lie.

7. Share your ideas. Value your sense of initiative and your capacity for momentum. Show your bosses that at work you think more in a "collective" than "individual" way. In addition, this encourages teamwork and the best functioning of the company.

Listen to your co-workers and, depending on their needs, collaborate so that they can benefit from the experience gained in a training course or in previous professional experience.

8. Participate in the company. Being integrated into the firm means that everyone knows you. Creating relationships is a good way to find out what is happening, as well as to work with people who are appreciated and with whom you can share more than the Internet connection.

Avoid always being the first to propose to go for a drink, and flood the email of your mates with jokes; It is not productive and it does not please everyone. And you, how do you excel in your work?
 

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