Five Career Advice Secrets for Being the Perfect Employee Everyone Wants on Their Team – Part 2
The following are five career advice secrets for being the perfect, motivated employee that everyone wants on their team, putting your career on the fast track, and creating great relationship with management:1. Be Enthusiastic Be known as an employee who has a great attitude and is enthusiastic about his/her job and work. Enthusiasm is contagious and spreads quickly in the workplace. Just the opposite, constantly whining and complaining deplete valuable resources of energy in the workplace. Think of people you know at work and ask the following questions:* Who energizes me at work? Who has a can do attitude? * Who drains the energy out of the day? Whom do I hate to see come through the door in the morning? * How do my co-workers and managers see me?Positive and negative employees, when presented with the same situation, have two different ways of handling the situation. The positive employee looks for the positive solutions. The positive employee is a proactive person who looks at change and challenges as opportunities to grow and develop new skills. The negative person looks at the same situations as being taken advantage of and has the “why is this happening to me” attitude. The negative employee tends to gossip and participate in unhealthy competition. Obviously, management feels more confident with the positive, enthusiastic employee with the “can do” attitude. Be known as the positive employee who creates solutions.2. Know Management You will avoid career landmines and be favored by management by taking the time to “manage your manager.” Find out and