The competition in the world of career is tight.
Every day, corporate environment see the dawn of the new stars and the dusk of the old ones. Even the internal competition is high, making it difficult to survive. In this corporate world there are certain things we can follow to make sure that you remain unhurt and will enhance your careers. This is written after looking through the eyes of a technical guy handling a team, but is applicable to almost all the business / career(Junior, Middle or Senior) around.
1. Say “NO” to gossips.
Gossip is an evil thing, stay out of it. Keep the Gossip mongers away, don’t be the subject of Gossip and more over, don’t Gossip. Remember, the corporate walls have eyes and ears and in most of the cases, your gossips will reach the subject and the reaction that you get back from him/ her will be difficult to handle.
2. The “Over” factor – Over expectation and Over Confidence.
Be confident but not “over” confident. Believe in yourselves and do the things. put in your maximum effort in doing these things. Make sure that you are not showing elements of over confidence in your sound or deed.
In the case of your team performance don’t over expect. Make sure that you analyse and come to a conclusion on how your team will perform.
3. Know the strength of your team (and the Weakness)
Knowing the strength and weakness will help you overcome many hurdles in your path. Make your weakness as your strength and build upon it. Apply your team’s strength in the work, cover the weakness with strength and find the missing links so that you can finish up weaving the net.
4. Know your Business and its objective
Before committing a project make sure that you understand the business well. If you feel like you can’t understand the business or it’s objectives, the product / project that you are going to commit will not be fruitful for both the client and you.
5. Take risk (and responsibility)
As in the movie Spider man, with great powers, come great responsibilities. I would like to extend that statement with increase in responsibilities, chances of risks also arises. Get ready to embrace risk, accept responsibilities, learn from your failures and move forward by rectifying the steps that caused you failure.
6. Decentralise the work (and share the fruit)
Instead of being the holder to all the key resources and process, decentralise them to your colleagues. This help them in their career growth, help them to take more responsibility and more over you will be more relaxed with quality results coming on your way. The fruit of the success that you enjoy by this allocation should be shared among your team as well, which in turn will give them motivation to move further.
7. Remember, Customer is the King
Customer service is something you can’t ignore in your corporate walk. Don’t try to meet customer expectations, but delight and en-light them with products and services that they don’t even dare to dream of. Service must be your watch word and deviations from that shouldn’t be tolerated.
8. Be a mentor
Be a mentor to your team, be humane, be considerate and be approachable. You must be the first name that comes in to the mind of a colleague in case he/she need a help. This helps to build a rapport which is unbreakable.
* this is not an exhaustive career guide(did I miss constant update of knowledge and network with your fellow beings?), but following some of these steps will definitely help to get an extra push to your career and a little fun at work. Try it!
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