5 Little Known Ways to Improve Your Career in 5 Minutes a Day

Filed Under (Uncategorized) by on 02-03-2010

Though many books have been written about advancing career and most of them are best sellers but there are many things that are very important to play vital role in advancing you on career path, however, paying a very less time and effort at your workspace. These small changes in your daily routine can play a very big role in changing your professional prospects. Below are provided 5 little known ways that can provide great boost to your career.

  1. Promoting oneself: Self promotion is very necessary to grow at the hierarchy of an organization. For that neither you need to brag about yourself nor pamper anyone. What you need to do is to put yourself before others in the organization when any important responsibility is discussed or shared. Mail weekly status report to your superior about the amount of the work is carried away.
  2. Share work with your Colleagues: Sometimes, you can even work outside the domain that is meant for you by assisting your colleagues in their workload and other job priorities. You can work as a trainer for new hired fresher, can lead internship program or even can organize company’s annual team building event. These duties thought not that much responsive can open up an array of opportunities in the organization.
  3. Be Socializing: As to make out the opportunity out of the work you should actively be in conversation with your colleagues as it according to a research can increase productivity up to 40 percent. One should be regular participant in company gathering like annual picnic or holiday parties, team building activities.  More you should have a proper dinning etiquette as business lunch is coming over as a common phenomenon and activity. Regularly checking your phone or discussing business before orders is not nice.
  4. Have a Better Social Network: You should regularly be into conferences and industry events as to get into network and there can employ a few tricks to have a better image and impression of yours before others. You can wear nametag on the right side, near your shoulder as other can remember you while shaking hand with you. Next you can use back side of visiting cards of others to note down about their preferences and habits.
  5. Be Humble: Whenever you are complimented for a good job acknowledge other for it and revert back as stating thanks to them. And never take other’s credit as it may develop rivalry and animosity among team mates.

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