Everybody is now looking for jobs that fit their desired lifestyle and not the way around…
These days, people seek out flexible jobs.
Some people want to work from home and others want to work at the beach.
Some people are able to do a job they love with a lifestyle they aspire to.
1. Flexjobs
Flexjobs is a job seeking application that publishes flexible jobs.
With Flexjobs, you can find jobs from up to 50 career categories that fit into your lives better and not the other way around.
You can find flexible jobs from quality employers quickly, easily and safely.
Flexjobs is for freelancing leaders, retired leaders who want to share their expertise, people with a nomadic lifestyle who want to work from anywhere, people who want to work from home and get more quality time with em their families.
2. Power To Fly
Power To Fly is a job seeking and talent seeking application that understands that a diverse team performs better.
Power To Fly is built to empower and connect the underrepresented talents to high profile companies and high visibility jobs.
It is made for people looking to change their career or who are seeking a flexible job.
Journey To Leadership curates the best apps available on the market to satisfy the needs of our readers and leaders.
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140 inspiringtweets that give out helpful job searching tips to newly college graduates.
There are tweets for people who wish to identify and highlight their professional strengths.
There are tips for graduates who are applying for different jobs, scheduling job interviews, crafting efficient resumes, cover letter and any other tools necessary to get the job.
These tweets relate also networking and creating relationships with hiring managers.
For example, being present on various social media and using your profile in order to connect directly with the hiring managers is a skill that can be acquired.
Other soft skills such as managing different job offers without burning bridges and navigating office politics and making a lasting good impression on your boss and coworkers are introduced.
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#ENTRYLEVELTweet by career expert Heather R. Huhman is a fast and easy read and gathers both practical and motivational tips that, I believe, can be helpful to boost your job search.
#ENTRYLEVELTweet by career expert Heather R. Huhman is intended for newly college graduates with absolutely no idea how to transit from the classroom to the cubicle.
Job interviews over the phone constitute a selection process that most companies use to screen candidates, to prevent candidates from having to travel to their company and to promote their company.
Wondering how to lead a successful job interview over the phone?
In this article, find all the tips you need to prepare yourself.
1. Write down everything
Write down all the information and schedule given to you and create alarms to remind you of the interview.
2. Look up the companywebsite
Look up the companywebsite and write down the company’s values, sector, number of workers, locations, annual income amount and most important projects. Knowing the company brings you points.
3. Prepare questions
Prepare some general interviewing questions (“tell me about yourself”, “what are your strengths?”, “what are your flaws?”,… ) and then write them down on paper.
A few minutes before the interview
4. Avoid noise
Make sure you are at home and not in public transports or in a noisy environment.
5. Wake up early
Wake up twenty minutes before the call literally and figuratively. Nobody likes a slurred speech and a hoarse morning voice.
6. Take care of yourself
Take care of your basic human needs 10 minutes before scheduled interview.
7. Prepare pen and papers to take notes.
If this interview is successful, it will lead to another interview at the company and those notes will be useful.
8. Surf the net
On your computer, open the company’s website page and get ready to discreetly surf for answers.
If you cannot find facts about the company, it’s OK.
The interviewer will provide them himself. It’s part of his job to introduce you to them.
9. Use your notes
Last but not least, place your notes with the prepared answers in front you.
The interviewer does not need to know that you are reading your answers.
During the interview
10. Actively listen
Listen carefully to the interviewer and wait for your time of speech.
Being nervous is understandable, but try to control yourself.
11. Keep your voice energized and upbeat
Smiling is also a great way to show your interest and excitement for the opportunity.
12. Maintain your energy
Even though you don’t know the answer for a question right away, stay calm, confident and positive. Politely request a few seconds to collect yourself.
13. Stay professional
Even though the interviewer is friendly, laugh quietly at his or her jokes but stay professional and composed. You are not talking to your best friend.
14. Stay calm
If you are nervous or need focus, feel free to pace around your house or sit at a desk.
After the interview
14. Send a thank you email
You can add questions about the offer to show your interest and motivation.
15. Send an update email
Wait 48 hours before sending an email to get an update on whether you’ve been selected or not.
Last words of advice!
Phone interviews are generally awkward because you are sharing details of your career life with a perfect stranger. In order to avoid all awkwardness, job interviews should be thoroughly prepared.
The interviewer or head hunter will call you a first time to schedule a job interview and will provide you with his or her company’s information.
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Congratulations. You have just been hired, after an incessant job search and multiple job interviews.
Now, the real work has just started!
Wondering how to build a positive professional image as soon as you arrive on the job and to sustain it throughout your whole career?
From your first day on the job, your colleagues will definitely be judging you and your capabilities as a leader, as a team member or as a threat to their current position.
Meanwhile your employer will evaluate your abilities to integrate the organization and to quickly adapt, to learn the job skills. You have to be ready to handle the pressure and to measure up to the job.
And unfortunately, I learnt that there aren’t any do-overs when it comes to making a first impression of your professional image.
On the first day on my first job, I showed up on the first day with a negative attitude: I was anxious, unconsciously rejecting the fact that I had to work corporate and work for someone else.
Therefore, in the long haul, I started involuntarily rebuffing the idea of getting along with people, learning new skills and focusing on my job.
As a result, I integrated an unfavorable perception of my environment and I certainly believe that I left a negative impression of myself in the workplace.
This stuck to me for a while until I quit the job and was able to start over elsewhere with a better knowledge of both corporate and leadership. At the same time, to survive, I did what my elders told me: “work hard and keep your head down!”. But this brought on additional issues.
Why? Because, according to Daniel Goleman, in Working With Emotional Intelligence, the “rules for work are changing. We’re being judged by a new yardstick: not just by how smart we are, or by our training and expertise, but also by how well we handle ourselves and each other.[…] These rules have little to do with what we were told was important in school; academic abilities are largely irrelevant to this standard.”.
In order for you to steer clear from the same issues that I have experienced, to develop a leadership image from the start, follow the tips below:
1. Arrive to work early and leave late on your first day
Arriving early to work demonstrate your motivation, your eagerness to learn and gives you more credit as a professional.
In addition, arriving early will allow you to get a general feel of your new colleagues’ arrival time, schedules, morning procedures.
It will also give you a time to which you will be expected to show up at work.
On your first day, at least, make sure to leave the office after a few coworkers have left the office and not before everyone else does.
2. Dress appropriately and to look your best
Undeniably, your coworkers will make snap decisions about you without getting to know or understanding your core values.
Subsequently, they will judge your book by its cover, no matter how you feel or what you say.
Dressing appropriately, without drawing attention to yourself, gives the perception that you fit in, that you are the right person for the job, and that you care about yourself and others.
At your job interview, you had the time to consider the company culture and to take notes on the proper attire to fit in.
Even on casual Fridays, groom yourself, do your best to look the part, and to dress for the job you want and not for the one you have.
3. Be confident, positive and prepared for a full-blown interview from your colleagues
After the job interview, take heed of the coworkers interviews.
Most likely, they will ask about your education, your professional experience, your professional competencies for the job, a description of your current position, and the members of your team. Prepare a short presentation of yourself to introduce yourself confidently.
4. Assume also that some of your coworkers won’t bother to get to know you
So, you will have to take initiative and make the first steps.
Extend a firm handshake, smile and proactively introduce yourself by using the short presentation about yourself and to control the message regarding yourself.
Also, prepare a set of probing questions for your coworkers.
5. Observe your coworkers in return, their behavior towards one another, towards their boss
Don’t be fooled, on your first day, most of your coworkers will be on their best behavior around you and will try their best for you to like them.
Withal, you can discreetly notice the clicks and the areas and subjects that bring tension.
6. Pay attention to company culture
Who gives orders, who is the unofficial leader, who arrives early and who arrives late, who takes coffee breaks and how often, who start the lunch process, where lunch takes place and for how long…does everyone work out? Should you go to the after works?
Take a moment to understand the rules, on your own, without referring to any coworker just yet.
7. Remember the names of the people you meet
I am not a name person but you should not ask for names that were already given. Wait a few days and someone will throw a name out there.
8. Cultivate emotional intelligence
Even though your coworkers will be on their best behavior for the first few days, there is ALWAYS someone to come around and test you for fun.
Your reaction to his or her obnoxious behavior will market your capabilities and your personal qualities, for future career success.
9. Communicate effectively, listen more than you speak and observe your body language
Listen actively and with intention of asking probing questions. Ask for people opinions before you give yours.
10. Show interest in your new tasks
The responsibilities that you are given on your first days are boring and minimal: you will most likely be reading job regulations, technical documents and implementing basic tasks.
Nonetheless, ask pertinent questions, take notes, commit to the task at hand and don’t expect your boss or your coworkers to hold your hand.
11. Be open to correction, advice and guidance
Even though you have some experience under your belt, stay humble instead of showing off your knowledge, listen to what your coworkers have to tell you
Thank people for their help and own up to your mistakes. Don’t be afraid to say “I don’t know. Let me find out and get back to you.”.
12. Accept invitations for coffee, to smoke or to lunch with your coworkers
Mind you, I don’t drink coffee, I don’t smoke and I only take lunch breaks alone during my working hours.
But those breaks are essential to show that you are social and willing to integrate and share their habits.
Use those breaks to your advantage to get to know your coworkers.
13. Don’t indulge in office politics and gossip on your first day or ever
Avoid people who partake in gossip and employ aggressive methods of office politics.
To not be implicated in the rumor mill, don’t expose your personal life. According to Daniel Goleman, pay attention to “what to say, what not to say, and what to call it” throughout your entire career.
Last Words Of Advice!
Building a strong professional image and leader brand, as soon as you step into your new position, is detrimental to career success.
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The company culture depends heavily on the leader’s personality, character and vision…
The culture of the company affects every level of the company and determines:
How you act and operate.
How decisions are made.
How you treat your customers, employees.
How your employees treat each other.
How you handle failures and celebrate successes.
The acceptable code of conduct.
Why certain things are required.
A highly performing company culture increases engagement, retains good employees, satisfies their customers and has better results than any other company.
That is why leaders have to hold themselves to very high standards and realize how much their behavior impacts their workplace.
Wondering how to create a high performance culture?
1. Assess the current state of your company
Leaders have to purposefully create and maintain a healthy workplace culture.
However, they must first be a living model for the culture that they want.
Leaders must take a good look at themselves when assessing the state of the culture: if the culture is unhealthy, then the leadership is unhealthy.
2. Define your why
Leaders must clearly define their purpose, personal mission statement and the vision for your company.
Building a high performance culture is subjective to the leader. It is important for leaders to have an initial idea of who they are, what they want and where they are going before they start hiring.
3. Define your core values
Core values are fundamentals beliefs, a set of principles that leaders follow and that guide then through life.
For example, a company can be based on the core value of radical honesty. In such culture, employees don’t sugarcoat anything, are able to tell the truth no matter the circumstances.
4. Define your version of success
It is important for leaders to define the short term and long term goals, to give their employees a definition of success so they know what to aim for in the long run.
For example, success can be meeting deadlines and hitting results.
Success can also be defined on different levels of technical competencies or on leadership abilities.
Leaders must be realistic about their goals and set clear expectations for employees. Setting unreachable goals will only demoralize your team.
5. Apply the Golden Rule
The Golden Rule is the principle of treating people the same way you want to be treated.
Because leaders are role models, they have to become culturally sensitive and inclusive.
6. Empower your employees
There are several ways that leaders can empower their teams within the company. They can:
Play to employees strengths and place them in the right roles. Help employees gain awareness and achieve their highest potential.
Acknowledge hard and good quality work.
Allow employees make mistakes.
Trust in employees decisions making skills. Employees will then feel confident about their abilities and stay engaged.
Encourage training. Employees perform better when they are confident about their abilities.
7. Give your employees a sense of ownership
Employees take more pride and respect more what they do when they have ownership over their work.
Giving a sense of ownership will help you develop great leaders who will in turn inspire and motivate.
8. Promote innovation and change
Innovation is necessary for the survival of each and every company in today’s economy.
When leaders promote innovation and change, people will be more likely to grow, to adapt, ask questions, to try new things and adopt a change mindset.
9. Value transparency
Leaders must encourage a transparent and open culture where information flows freely.
For instance, letting your employees know how well your company is doing will improve trust. Of course, there will be gossip around the health of the company but overall employees will believe that you have their best interest at heart.
10. Practice collaboration
Leaders promote and encourage autonomy and collaboration within their team.
They allow their teams to have fun at work. They have broken down traditional workplace structure, simplified workplace processes and looked after their employees well-being.
11. Appraise customer satisfaction
High performance cultures are hard to come by.
Leaders continuously conduct customer satisfaction assessments because these assessments give a direct indication of team performance and the health of the company.
12. Monitor your culture
There will always be things to improve in a company but it important to strive for more. It is up to leaders to:
Nurture, develop and sustain the culture.
Deliver a set of tools to drive performance.
Show that the health of the company matters.
Give regular updates on how employees are doing in regards to their individual and collective goals.
Last Words Of Advice!
Most leaders, when trying to improve their cultures, focus on metrics and not on the people. If your culture is not where you want it to be, remember that:
One bad apple can spoil the whole bunch.
You need to focus on the positives.
You just need to take on step at a time. For example, start by sharing your goals or by being transparent about the current status of the company.
If you don’t think you can practice of implement the culture that you want, find a manager or a human resources person who has the skills that you are missing.
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The culture that we live in encourages people to live their dreams and follow their passions. We don’t necessarily have a guideline to live the dream, to exercise our passions and to find the career that best suits us.
It seems that to get a fulfilling job or to do great work, following your passion is definitively not the way to go.
Why not?
Because following your passions is difficult, rarely successful and dangerous. Studies have shown that:
Passions are not determined at birth.
Most people can have several passions that have nothing to do with choosing the right job. Some people don’t necessarily have a passion to follow.
Passions for a job takes time to develop. It takes time to build relationships, to become efficient at what you do and see the impact of your work.
You become passionate when you master a skill.
You become confused and anxious when you follow passion.
What should you do then?
When going after the career you want, you must measure the importance of growing a set of skills and adopt the craftsman mindset.
Indeed, there are two ways of thinking about work. There’s the craftsmanmindset and the passionmindset.
The passion mindset focuses on what the world can offer you. It sets you constantly on high alert, seeking for what you don’t like. It leaves you perpetually in a state of confusion.
The craftsman mindset is useful in building the career that you want, irrespective of what type of work you do. It focuses on what you produce and what you can offer the world. It leaves you with clarity and a love for what you do.
How to acquire the craftsman mindset?
Great work is a combination of creativity, impact and control. This combination is rare but valuable.
Matter of fact, great jobs are rare and valuable. To find them, you need to build up great skills and in turn offer skills that are rare and valuable.
The craftsman mindset is the best way to acquire skills Capital.
To grow a craftsman mindset, you can follow these 5 steps:
Decide what Capital Market you belong to.
Identify the type of Capital you want to pursue.
Define clear goals for yourself.
Get out of your comfort zone and stretch your abilities.
Be patient.
How to gain control using your new found Capital?
Gaining control over what you do is an important part of enjoying what you do and is the hardest part.
Gaining control turns out to be tricky: you cannot ask for more control if you don’t have enough Capital to back it up or you have acquired lots of control that you can no longer evolve in your role.
It serves to have a unifying focus or mission for your career. A mission will focus your energy toward a useful goal and increase your impact on the world. To accomplish your mission, you can take small steps that generate concrete feedback.
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So Good They Can’t Ignore You is an extremely practical, logical guide to get the career that you want and to be so “good they can’t ignore you”.
In So Good They Can’t Ignore You, Cal Newport believes that you should not pursue your passions in order to achieve career success.
Instead, you should seek to improve your skills and apply yourself in a particular field. By mastering a skill, you will gain in efficiency and gradually become passionate about the work you do.
According to Cal Newport, people who solely follow their passions end up shifting careers when they realize that their career is not what is cracked up to be.
To get a fulfilling job and the career that you want, he suggests 4 rules or principles that are extracted from many successful people lives and that are difficult to implement.
It was very interesting and somewhat refreshing to hear an unpopular opinion. His principles and opinion are not designed for dreamers. It is however designed for people at entry-level at their jobs, for analytical people who are geared towards efficient performance and who are career focused.
Even if I’m a practical person, I admittedly don’t see anything wrong with pushing people to follow their passions that might get them out of their comfort zone and into their dream job.
I think that there isn’t one approach to success or else everybody would be doing it. Some people are motivated by having a solid plan, others by an unshakable purpose and others by an exciting passion.
I always wished someone had thought me what I know now, so I didn’t need to learn life and office politics the hard way.
Needless to say, mentors are hard to come by and it is difficult for women and minorities to find mentors in powerful positions.
However, achieving success without a mentor is possible but having one will definitively make your life easier.
Wondering how to score the perfect mentor or perfect mentee?
What is mentorship?
Mentorship is usually the realization of leadership. It is similar to tutorship, to parenthood, to partnership, or to an alliance.
To simplify, mentorship is basically an often exclusive work relationship between two people who are willing to learn from each other and to grow with each other.
Identify your goals and make sure that they align with those of your future mentor.
Handle your career on your own, manage your own reputation, gain pertinent skills, work on yourself and on your goals first before seeking help.
Verify the role and status of the person of interest. The person must not necessarily be your supervisor, must not work at the same company or have the same position. Make sure that your mentor has exceptional skills, is well read, is self-aware and is always on the path of self-improvement.
Observe your mentor’s behavior and character to ensure that you will get along with them and look up to.
Test your mentor’s ability to handle work then ask for help.
Get to know your mentor on a personal level and keep in touch from time to time.
Seek understanding and accept mentorship influence.
Learn to keep secrets.
If you looking to be a mentor…
You must be willing to share your experiences, to be authentic, protective, fair, positive, patient and confident.
Mentors are motivators, are able to create strong relationships, are part of a powerful network, demonstrate exemplary leadership behavior, have influence, dedicate themselves to people, take risks, give sound advice, and give credit when it’s due.
Benefits to being a mentor
Being a mentor is rewarding and is an illustrious position. In a mentorship relationship, everyone benefits from each other’s success and brings equal goods to the table.
On one hand, mentors are able to share their life experiences, to share great work tips, to provide different perspectives, to retain the best employees and to improve the workplace. They can delegate work to a trusted employee, bridge the generational gap, get to work with different people and get more free time to themselves.
On another hand, without being part of your organization, mentees are able to positively impact the mentor’s image, reputation, forces them to sharpen their skills and to improve their work-life balance. Mentees keep their mentors in touch with their organization, up to date with their technical skills
Finally, mentorship is fulfilling because mentors are able to leave a legacy, to make their mark.
How to select a mentee?
The perfect mentee does not exist.
Be open to mentorship proposals early in life and early in your career
Observe if they have potential
Verify the mentee is curious, eager to learn and open to change
Verify that they are willing to put in the work
How to be a mentor?
To be the best mentor you can be:
Be a role-model.
Find out what you and your mentee want to achieve.
Set realistic expectations about the job and help them clarify their goals.
There are laws and principles that govern the workplace. We can either ignore them, acknowledge them or abide by them.
These laws and principles are the most visible when someone has been promoted, is moving forward or a new boss is in town. Some appear to be jealous, some try to quickly affiliate with the winner, to show their allegiance. Others are quick to sabotage and to compete.
I am not one to willingly participate in office politics. However, in my opinion, because knowledge is power, the best way to avoid politics is to know the rules. I like to know what is happening, how to read a room, to always be aware of my behavior, and to prepare myself for what is coming.
This advice is also valuable for minorities who encounters western group think in the office, who need to be realistic about their situations and want to understand how to advance themselves, how to protect themselves.
Wondering how to navigate office politics and whether or not you should be interested in it?
What is office politics?
Office politics is a human concept and is inevitable. It is also very necessary and will go on whether your participate in it or not.
In office politics people seek power, leadership, influence and/or control of other people, more responsibility on their job.
Office politics is a particular hard skill becauseit requires that you control your primitive, impulsive responses to different situations and that you stay in high alert at all times.
The Perks Of Office Politics
Political animals in the office usually get what they want, to evade conflicts and sometimes create them between different individuals. Political animals:
Have influence. They build healthy relationships, even with toxic individuals.
Recognize the agendas and powers at play in any relationships.
Get the best projects, get promoted, get pay raise and other rewards.
Are trusted for their opinions.
Get credit for their hard work.
Get their career on a positive track.
Have the ability and the tools to deal with opposition and usually wins in a conflict.
Conserve their energy and focus it on worthwhile issues.
Avoid being blindsided or facing unpleasant outcomes.
What We Hate About Office Politics
Office politics is often badly perceived because it can be cruel, be viewed as being calculated and manipulative.
Sometimes, office politics is a dangerous and corrosive game but it is a game. It is part of human nature, a social activity, a marathon and not a sprint.
It is often used to sabotage, to manipulate, to deflect or to create a conflict between people.
Therefore, it is not for the faint of heart. Before starting, you must make sure that you are robust, are not dependent on people or other external factors, that you are emotionally detached from your work and that you can clearly separate your identity from your job.
Furthermore, keep in mind that abusing power on the long run does not lead to success.
Principle #1: Defining your purpose
Having greater goals in life will help you sustain and overcome opposition, avoid being pushed around by people or events. Your ultimate goals can be:
staying at a company and getting your pay check to ensure your lifestyle and to guarantee financial stability.
staying at a company, evolving, building healthy relationships
Living the company and finding better
Either way, set realistic goals, expectations for yourself. Next, stay focus on your goals, use your goals to guide your decisions and your behavior.
Principle #2: Know your strengths, weaknesses and limits
Politics and power will challenge your weaknesses.
Understanding your strengths and weaknesses will help you assess your worth, appreciate your contributions at work and determine whether or not you can run with horses. This will also help you identify them in others, understand them, maximize their potential and forgive their weaknesses.
To be effective at office politics, don’t directly demonstrate or enunciate your strengths or weaknesses. It is best to wait for the right moment to do so.
In addition, you must seek to enhance your performance, your productivity, to develop competencies that are hard to acquire or hard to replace. and to deliver great results. Then, discreetly promote your results.
Principle #3: Maintaining your leadership capabilities
It is important to learn to keep your peace and your composure at all times by seriously controlling your emotions. This demands a lot of discipline and will help you grow as a person.
Furthermore, lead by example and take care or yourself first. Great leaders have power but stay humble and don’t abuse it.
Seek understanding
To help you manage people, conflicts, to adopt the right behavior, to estimate your position and status:
Understand the company culture, values and principles.
Understand the people who you work with, estimate their boundaries and assess their attitudes.
Believe that hierarchy exist and is gladly enforced in the workplace. This means that you must, at some point, show deference to your “superiors”.This doesn’t mean that your “superiors” have greater character, greater skill sets or greater vision. However, no matter who you are, you won’t be able to freely speak your mind, to make your own decisions, to control your assignments.
Discipline your words and your thoughts
Stay away from gossip and rumors.
Watch what you say and how you say it.
Give substance to your speech.
Monitor your behavior at all times.
Discipline your emotions
Get rid of your ego and nurture your sense of humor. If you don’t know something, say so and don’t fake knowledge.
Don’t waste your time and energy on useless matters.
Keep your wits about you.
When someone slights you, don’t give them an emotional reaction.
Principle #4: Behave ethically
Remain true to your core values.
Don’t expect to be treated fairly.
Upgrade your character in order to be unimpeachable from the start. People with low or no ethics are unsuccessful in the long run.
Poor character leads to abusive, aggressive, masochistic, sadist behavior and office politics.
When I was working for a long corporation, one person in the office was being bullied. I was asked, as a team member, to participate in the bullying and to force the person to quit.
Most of my team members, for fun or for fear of retribution, would engage in toxic behavior towards this one person, put down false complaints and manufacture false rumors as well.
Without doing the same, I realized that sadistically beating down on someone, engaging in toxic behavior were not aligning with my core values and wouldn’t allow me to sleep properly at night.
To solve the solution, I simply listened to the request, spoke positively about the person, suggested to them that they had to find a better position and found a better place to work myself.
What was your ethically questionable experience?
Principle #5: Building your network and gaining influence
Networking is an important process, especially if your are shy and introverted. Who you know will determine how far you will get.
Here are some tips below that will help you be unbothered, to gain influence and build positive relationships:
Protect your reputation at all cost. For instance, if you make promises, live up to them.
Have a positive attitude. Avoid being mean or offending people for sport.
Act or be confident. It is important to fake it until you make it, to dress confidently and dress for success.
Give your best on your job and put your best foot forward. You can even become an expert in your field.
Empathetic ally listen to your coworkers. This way, you will get invaluable information about the environment, be solution oriented and build strong relationships.
Look to be respected and not to be liked.
Seek to integrate the group before you seek to lead it.
Target people who can help you achieve your goals and let them know what you bring to the table.
Don’t worry what people say about you, don’t gossip or spread false rumors.
Avoid too much flattery. You will appear weak to your peers, will erode their respect and the respect of the higher-ups.
Involve people in your decision-making process.
Principle #6: Friend or Foe?
It is detrimental to discern your friends from your enemies, your confidant from your comrade, your constituents from your compatriots.
Keep in mind that:
Not everybody is your friend and don’t expect your “friends” to have your back.
It is better to have allies than to have enemies.
Your enemies won’t stop at anything to block you from achieving your purpose.
In conflicts or challenging situations:
Always seek to diffuse tension.
Avoid taking sides, power struggles but don’t give in to enemies or attempt to please them.
Mind your business and don’t take anything personally.
Identify the toxic behavior and the solution for it.
Don’t stoop to the level of the perpetrator or please the naysayers.
Don’t play the victim or suffer unfair treatment.
Ask questions rather than giving answers or have a private chat with an enemy and try to bring them to your side.
If you are not in position of power or are not favored at your job, accept it and move on, especially if you don’t know how to maneuver the situation.
If excluded from a group, don’t attempt to fit in, just join a new one or leave the place.
If you are being openly criticized or insulted, don’t let that affect your self-worth or your work. Agree with the perpetrator without demonstrating emotion.
Principle #7: Change
To handle office politics, one must learn to appreciate change and adapt to it.
Stay present, stay resilient and robust to conflicts and change, to your own emotions, to the emotions of others.
Learn to deal with change and quickly recover from your blows.
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