Don’t overwork
Hard work is appreciated, but working long hours, instead of relaxing and relaxing, decreases productivity.
It’s fine if you love your job or have to work long hours to catch up, but don’t make overwork a habit.
You need to constantly examine whether you are working inefficiently and need a break when you are tired. After all, creativity is an important measure of a person’s value in addition to work output. Overworking for long hours is not only bad for your health, it’s also bad for your creativity.
What should be avoided most is to follow suit and work overtime. When I see that my colleagues have not left, or my leader is still working hard, even though I have finished my work or I am very tired, I dare not take a rest. This mentality is wrong. If you have worked hard, you should be comfortable working.
Scientific rest is the necessary premise to avoid mistakes, improve efficiency and continue innovation.
Sell yourself
Even if you’ve done good work, it’s hard to let your accomplishments improve your job prospects.
It is not desirable to be an engineer coding quietly in the corner. Your supervisor will support you, but he can’t advocate for you.
The rest of the company needs to understand what you’re worth, and the best way to do that is to tell people what you’ve done. A simple Email saying “Hi, I’ve done XXX, please let me know what you think” will do the trick.
Learn to lead a team
After a few years of work, no one doubts your technical ability, when you pass the technical ability, it is necessary to test your ability to get along with others.
What follows technical skills is leadership skills, how to lead a team and work effectively with others to achieve greater results.
Find someone at a higher level
Find people who are better and smarter than you are, and try to hang out with them for dinner or coffee, pick their brains, and find out what they know. Your career, and even your life, will be better for it.
Don’t be a fake worker
Work is never done. Some people work overtime, exhausting themselves, with little benefit. The reason is that they lack the ability to prioritize their work and do a lot of optional work.
When you’re feeling anxious about how much work you can’t get done, stop and reorganize the tasks at hand: Proactively prioritize the most important tasks that will help the business the most and improve your capabilities.
Distinguish between jobs and occupations
Work is the means to make a living, you complete the task, the company pay you wages, neither owe; A career is what we do all our lives. If you want to make your current job a lifelong career, you need to think differently.
The first thing to do is to choose what is good for your career, whether it is paid or not. On the other hand, just for the money, and career development of things, do not do as much as possible. At the same time, you need a professional attitude towards your career. Avoid negative emotions and personal preferences at work and focus on achieving your goals.
Don’t treat yourself as a company guest
Nowadays, there is a lot of job mobility. Young people who have just graduated, especially, will take the first one or two companies as a springboard, expecting to enter a good company after having experience, so they treat themselves as a traveler from the mentality. When you feel like you’re just passing through, you ignore a lot of work, go through the motions, and don’t bother to maintain relationships with your colleagues. It’s easy to become unmotivated and waste valuable time training yourself. With this mentality, even if they change jobs, it is difficult to be given important responsibilities.
Focus on Prior communication
Many people are in a hurry to do something because they are afraid that other people will have different opinions, so they don’t say hello and make their own decisions in a hurry. They hope that after “raw rice is cooked”, everyone will accept the fait accompli.
Don’t do that. Most of the time, it’s always a better and more professional way to do things. If you don’t communicate in advance, you will be left with the impression of disrespect and lack of team spirit, or even pick a bone and report to your boss. Then to explain, but more time and energy waste.
Focus on stage verification
According to different stages, check whether the progress is normal, whether the quality is good, whether the communication is smooth.
Don’t wait to check things out until they are on a deadline or can’t be changed.
If you are totally indifferent to the outcome of the situation and just say you did your best when something went wrong, it will leave an impression of irresponsibility in others’ minds.
Don’t be provoked into chaos by verbal violence
At work, there will always be people who criticize your work for no reason, but don’t offer specific questions or constructive suggestions. This kind of behavior is called “verbal violence”.
To deal with such people, we must not mess up the rules ourselves, but fight back with grounds. After confirming that it is not your fault, find out the purpose of the other party and take the initiative to communicate and solve the problem. Also, speak up and let the other person know about their problems. In short, be respectful in your communication, but be firm and clear. Only in this way, I won’t be bullied by these people.
Keep records of everything and avoid simple repetition
Work, often encounter the same problem, many times the solution can be used for reference. But most people put so much trust in their memory that they quickly forget these problems. So the second time, the third time… Encounter the same problem, still helpless, or spend a lot of time to solve. Learning to take notes will give you a quick solution the next time you encounter a problem like this. As we write it down, we think it over again and make progress faster, rather than repeating it at a lower level.
Look up at the road and pay attention to the big picture
A lack of understanding of the whole job and industry is a problem for many people at work. This can lead to the consequence of not seeing the forest for the trees.
As with painting, if you only stare at the color block in front of you and don’t want to step back and see the whole picture, you lose control of the whole picture, and you can’t verify your ideas and optimize your work. It’s important to overcome this mindset and be professional at work while also having the ability to step outside the box and focus on the big picture.
Play to your strengths and don’t try to be a one-horse race
At work, the boss, subordinates and colleagues around, as well as the company, are our concern and responsibility. But sometimes they are in conflict with each other, and many people try to be happy with all three, but they can’t. What we need to do is to preserve one according to its strengths: to the boss, to the people and subordinates, or to the company, without harming the other two. Try to tread on three boats and end up falling into the water.
Success is not difficult, but in making fewer mistakes
Too often in life, we only think about how to win a game, not the whole game. But life is such a long game that most of the time we don’t have to worry about “winning”, just not losing.
At half time, a lot of opponents will forfeit, or lose the game, and at the end of the day, the real winner is left.