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To improve your career prospects, there are obvious things you could and should do.
The first obvious step would be to get a good mentor so you’re not alone in making career decisions.
In this way, you’ll be able to grow and stretch yourself. You’ll get personalized feedback, learn, grow your emotional intelligence, improve your techniques and network brilliantly.
But for enhancement, let’s delve deeper.
Here are important tips:
1. Be assertive in your communication. Productive people don’t procrastinate and they’re not hesitant to be honest.
2. When coworkers aren’t responsive in a timely way, don’t be shy about getting answers, identifying solutions and implementing them.
3. Be authoritative to earn trust and confidence. Convey a sense that you’re decisive and in control.
4. Look for problems to solve. Solve them and let your boss know. In this way, you’ll be seen as someone who seizes opportunities for organizational growth and who makes good decisions without oversight.
5. Be mindful of organizational objectives and push ahead even if others are reluctant. Take decisive action to make your boss look good.
6. Always show dignity and poise. Show respect. If you question your supervisor’s decisions, do it privately. That’s the professional way.
7. Learn to speak well in public. Do this and you’ll be become influential as people hear your ideas.
8. Enhance your teamwork and collaborative skills. Become known as someone who can work with anyone.
9. Continue to study the characteristics of leaders. Take the right steps to become a leader.
10. Strive for a track record of success. Sometimes there will be obstacles, but analyze how to overcome them. When you don’t succeed or make a mistake, learn why and apologize when appropriate, don’t make excuses and forge ahead.
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