7 Ways to Build a Strong Internal Reputation
3 June 2014
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7 Ways to Build a Strong Internal Reputation
Text: As vain as it may seem, your "good reputation" makes and can make (and break) all the difference in the office. Simply doing your job correctly and being efficient is not enough to get good press from your colleagues.
To be recognized, or even valued, here are some valuable tips that will help you "advertise" your knowledge and skills within your company.
1. Align to Surpass
Your first mission, to improve or polish your reputation, is to establish yourself as a professional perfectly capable of meeting the identified needs of your priority targets. Therefore, first understand that you must not only align yourself with your potential "competitors" but also surpass them. Compare yourself to the best, dare to be honest with yourself, without complacency but without unnecessary harshness either. Position yourself by drawing inspiration from their best habits, ideas, practices, and operations, but knowing how to discreetly and simply add your personal touch, the one that will make all the difference, that will create your "persona", namely your image.
2. Differentiate Yourself
Differentiating yourself means, once again, being able to highlight what you offer, what you provide, added to that which constitutes your "little extra", your personal touch, your trademark, which has the same base as the competitor, yet with different and undeniably more interesting characteristics.
3. Be Optimal
Find a way to surpass yourself, to be the best version of yourself. Try to identify and control your areas of expertise and ask yourself how you can modify and improve your work processes to not only achieve your goals but in a much faster and more efficient way. Remember not to keep a work method that may not be the best, under the pretext that it seemed correct the first time. Learn to identify your strengths, your real and rare assets, to develop them, to strengthen them, and to use them systematically. Accept that your mistakes can also be your best chance to learn more and improve over time.
4. Collaborate with Leaders
It is necessary to know how to collaborate with your superiors, to bring them that little touch of "know-how" that you possess and which will help them improve their performance in a work environment. Identify the area(s) of expertise where you can contribute your good advice (ways of organizing work, managing time, computer or social skills...).
5. Make Yourself Known
Yes: "make yourself known to be recognized", that's as old as the world. So dare to engage in various company projects that will allow you to collaborate with other departments, to access other people (whose names and areas of activity you will take care to master). Explore as many different areas of work in your company as possible to expand your knowledge and skills.
6. Dare to Succeed
Modesty and humility are indeed great and beautiful qualities. However, they must not become synonymous with withdrawal and shyness. So, dare to accept, simply and firmly, the compliments you are given and mentally integrate your noble achievements. Don't be ashamed of having done well! Don't hide your talents! Hiding is wasting. You have the right to say: "yes, this project was a great success" when you are congratulated on your work, or that of your team.
7. Continuously Improve Yourself
Never interrupt the long and laborious process of learning and improvement. Consider that in some areas, such as New Information and Communication Technologies, there is constant evolution. Withdrawing from learning is losing all your baggage. Discovering new media and communication areas will allow you to be able to handle highly specialized tasks while putting in less effort and wasting less time. This will also help you build a good reputation.
The ReKrute.com Team
Text: As vain as it may seem, your "good reputation" makes and can make (and break) all the difference in the office. Simply doing your job correctly and being efficient is not enough to get good press from your colleagues.
To be recognized, or even valued, here are some valuable tips that will help you "advertise" your knowledge and skills within your company.
1. Align to Surpass
Your first mission, to improve or polish your reputation, is to establish yourself as a professional perfectly capable of meeting the identified needs of your priority targets. Therefore, first understand that you must not only align yourself with your potential "competitors" but also surpass them. Compare yourself to the best, dare to be honest with yourself, without complacency but without unnecessary harshness either. Position yourself by drawing inspiration from their best habits, ideas, practices, and operations, but knowing how to discreetly and simply add your personal touch, the one that will make all the difference, that will create your "persona", namely your image.
2. Differentiate Yourself
Differentiating yourself means, once again, being able to highlight what you offer, what you provide, added to that which constitutes your "little extra", your personal touch, your trademark, which has the same base as the competitor, yet with different and undeniably more interesting characteristics.
3. Be Optimal
Find a way to surpass yourself, to be the best version of yourself. Try to identify and control your areas of expertise and ask yourself how you can modify and improve your work processes to not only achieve your goals but in a much faster and more efficient way. Remember not to keep a work method that may not be the best, under the pretext that it seemed correct the first time. Learn to identify your strengths, your real and rare assets, to develop them, to strengthen them, and to use them systematically. Accept that your mistakes can also be your best chance to learn more and improve over time.
4. Collaborate with Leaders
It is necessary to know how to collaborate with your superiors, to bring them that little touch of "know-how" that you possess and which will help them improve their performance in a work environment. Identify the area(s) of expertise where you can contribute your good advice (ways of organizing work, managing time, computer or social skills...).
5. Make Yourself Known
Yes: "make yourself known to be recognized", that's as old as the world. So dare to engage in various company projects that will allow you to collaborate with other departments, to access other people (whose names and areas of activity you will take care to master). Explore as many different areas of work in your company as possible to expand your knowledge and skills.
6. Dare to Succeed
Modesty and humility are indeed great and beautiful qualities. However, they must not become synonymous with withdrawal and shyness. So, dare to accept, simply and firmly, the compliments you are given and mentally integrate your noble achievements. Don't be ashamed of having done well! Don't hide your talents! Hiding is wasting. You have the right to say: "yes, this project was a great success" when you are congratulated on your work, or that of your team.
7. Continuously Improve Yourself
Never interrupt the long and laborious process of learning and improvement. Consider that in some areas, such as New Information and Communication Technologies, there is constant evolution. Withdrawing from learning is losing all your baggage. Discovering new media and communication areas will allow you to be able to handle highly specialized tasks while putting in less effort and wasting less time. This will also help you build a good reputation.
The ReKrute.com Team
