Get Noticed at Work in 10 Lessons
21 March 2013
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If discretion is a quality in everyday life, it is not certain that the same applies at work.
Indeed, how can you make your work known if no one sees it? It is necessary that your colleagues and superiors know what you are doing and have done.
Here are 10 rules to be distinguished within the company.
1. Be informed.
In a company, knowing what is happening in your department is not considered bad curiosity but a form of "knowledge". In case of hesitation or doubt, your colleagues will turn to you to be informed about the news of the place. You will be considered a source of information, reliable and dynamic.
2. Note your successes.
Do not hesitate to list the projects that you have successfully completed. This list will be useful during your performance review but also, more generally, to highlight your functioning around you.
However, there is no need to overdo it and appear vain and/or too insistent.
3. Be open and communicative.
Take the time to open up to others, to communicate, to discuss with them. The coffee machine is the place of exchange par excellence; do not avoid it! Participate in small office or hallway discussions and take advantage of these brief moments to make your activity known. It is not a question of keeping an oral accounting of your successes but of making your action within the company known. Your colleagues will not hesitate to call on you if needed.
4. Be flexible.
Help your colleagues from time to time in their work. Certainly don't rush in every time, otherwise people will think you lack work, but dare to intervene if the person needs a helping hand: you will be noticed in the good sense of the term. Everyone appreciates flexibility (not to be confused with softness or slightly foolish kindness).
5. Assume your responsibilities.
Do your best to be efficient, dynamic, fast, reliable and to successfully complete the missions entrusted to you. Ask for advice when necessary but avoid relying too much on others and, above all, don't give up. Very quickly, your reputation will be established: you are someone reliable who can be trusted.
6. Take initiatives.
Be creative in your search for solutions. Dare to take the necessary measures to work more pleasantly and increase your productivity (as well as that of others). In this way, if you notice that you work better by setting up such and such a new way of working, go for it! No one can reproach you for wanting things to be done better.
7. Master your environment.
The more you know about your company, its objectives, its codes, its regulations, its internal workings, its unspoken rules, its vision of success, the better you will be able to communicate about your activity and highlight it against the human "backdrop". Indeed, how can you make realistic and appropriate proposals if you do not know perfectly the world around you...?
8. Be open.
Don't be timid. Dare to tackle new projects, even if they scare you a little at the start. Avoid being locked into a mechanical and monotonous activity. This will considerably slow down the speed of recognition by those around you. A person open to new things, who likes challenges, will more easily attract attention.
9. Ask for feedback.
It is always healthy and well perceived to go to others to ask them what they think of your work. This allows you to be helped, often boosted, but also to give a view on your action and its results.
10. Respect the dress code.
As banal and distressing as it may seem, your appearance also plays a non-negligible role in the recognition of what you are/do. It is less easy to be taken seriously by only wearing jeans and sneakers... Force yourself to wear a suit and tie, at least in case of an important event.
Article written by the ReKrute.com team
Indeed, how can you make your work known if no one sees it? It is necessary that your colleagues and superiors know what you are doing and have done.
Here are 10 rules to be distinguished within the company.
1. Be informed.
In a company, knowing what is happening in your department is not considered bad curiosity but a form of "knowledge". In case of hesitation or doubt, your colleagues will turn to you to be informed about the news of the place. You will be considered a source of information, reliable and dynamic.
2. Note your successes.
Do not hesitate to list the projects that you have successfully completed. This list will be useful during your performance review but also, more generally, to highlight your functioning around you.
However, there is no need to overdo it and appear vain and/or too insistent.
3. Be open and communicative.
Take the time to open up to others, to communicate, to discuss with them. The coffee machine is the place of exchange par excellence; do not avoid it! Participate in small office or hallway discussions and take advantage of these brief moments to make your activity known. It is not a question of keeping an oral accounting of your successes but of making your action within the company known. Your colleagues will not hesitate to call on you if needed.
4. Be flexible.
Help your colleagues from time to time in their work. Certainly don't rush in every time, otherwise people will think you lack work, but dare to intervene if the person needs a helping hand: you will be noticed in the good sense of the term. Everyone appreciates flexibility (not to be confused with softness or slightly foolish kindness).
5. Assume your responsibilities.
Do your best to be efficient, dynamic, fast, reliable and to successfully complete the missions entrusted to you. Ask for advice when necessary but avoid relying too much on others and, above all, don't give up. Very quickly, your reputation will be established: you are someone reliable who can be trusted.
6. Take initiatives.
Be creative in your search for solutions. Dare to take the necessary measures to work more pleasantly and increase your productivity (as well as that of others). In this way, if you notice that you work better by setting up such and such a new way of working, go for it! No one can reproach you for wanting things to be done better.
7. Master your environment.
The more you know about your company, its objectives, its codes, its regulations, its internal workings, its unspoken rules, its vision of success, the better you will be able to communicate about your activity and highlight it against the human "backdrop". Indeed, how can you make realistic and appropriate proposals if you do not know perfectly the world around you...?
8. Be open.
Don't be timid. Dare to tackle new projects, even if they scare you a little at the start. Avoid being locked into a mechanical and monotonous activity. This will considerably slow down the speed of recognition by those around you. A person open to new things, who likes challenges, will more easily attract attention.
9. Ask for feedback.
It is always healthy and well perceived to go to others to ask them what they think of your work. This allows you to be helped, often boosted, but also to give a view on your action and its results.
10. Respect the dress code.
As banal and distressing as it may seem, your appearance also plays a non-negligible role in the recognition of what you are/do. It is less easy to be taken seriously by only wearing jeans and sneakers... Force yourself to wear a suit and tie, at least in case of an important event.
Article written by the ReKrute.com team
