15 Steps to Career Success
These 15 Secrets to Career Success may help you get the upper hand on your future…
3. Communication: Make sure you are clear and your message understood. Simple is good. “Over-communicate” important messages. Don’t delay. Your emails are your emmissary. Give and require, summaries.
4. Listen, Listen, Listen: Curiosity initiates learning. Ask “the next question”. Showing respect for other’s viewpoints does not equal weakness.
5. Don’t Try to Own Everything: Use your resources. Create relationships. Hold partners accountable. Be accountable. Share the gain and share the pain.
6. Go Out of Your Way to Make Other People Heroes: Give credit fast, widely and explicitly.
7. Don’t Be Afraid to “Inspect What You Expect”: Actively checking on things grows you and your team, whether that team is reporting directly or indirectly to you.
8. Prepare: Don’t wing anything. Prepare anytime you know you are going to lead, or speak, at a meeting or conference call.
9. Don’t Be Afraid to Show Your Passion: Be predictable emotionally. Don’t be moody. Smile.
10. Work Hard to Sell Ideas: Add your own creative depth to thin subjects so that others can “get it”. Rely on solid logic, not your title, to lead your team to support your direction.
11. Time: Fiercely protect it. Don’t let people repreat themselves. Give and require clear objectives for meetings and conference calls.
12. Master the Art and Science of Your Job: Both aspects are important to nurture. Use your interpersonal gifts, but learn the underlying science, too.
13. Balance: Engage in outside interests with passion. This will make you a more interesting, more stable, and more capable person. See the forest and the trees.
14. Read the Outside Materials: Grow and sustain a strong, colorful vocabulary. use analogies. Stay alert to outside business issues and current events which impact your business so that you look like an expert.
15. You Will Be Ready To Lead: “Where you stand depends on where you sit.” When your time to lead a direct or indirect team comes, embrace it. You have prepared you will be ready.