The Bottom Line In
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Getting Ahead In Your Organization
f you are looking for ways to promote your own ideas within your company, the
best strategy is to help the boss achieve their goals.
It helps to know what
your boss's goals are and that of the company as well as what they need from you
in order to achieve them.
Once you know what is expected, you can find ways to
achieve those goals and make your boss look good to their boss.
Your boss will be open to accepting your ideas and helping you to get ahead in
the company.
It is also very important to keep an open relationship with your
coworkers. It they know that you care about their success, they will be more
likely to help you with yours. If you don't keep this relationship open and
building, your coworkers may not be as helpful when you really need them to be.
Trouble Finding Employees?
Tap a rich
source of able job candidates
he next time you have trouble filling a job, think
disabled. With often- minor accommodations, you can tap into a chronically
underemployed workforce
of some 54 million people with disabilities.
Only 30% of working-age people with disabilities are
employed, compared to 80% of nondisabled adults, says the National Organization
on Disability.
And if you’re worried about having to make expensive
accommodations for employees with disabilities, don’t: On average, it costs
between $50 and $100 for
each employee, says the federal Office of Technology
Services.
You can recruit candidates with disabilities through
national organizations such as JobAccess (www.jobaccess.org) and National
Business &
Disability Council (www.Business-Disability.com).
Reprint permission granted. Source: as
adapted from HRFocus, American Management Association, (800) 262-9699.
Characteristics Of An Outstanding
Leader
Wisdom is one of the primary
characteristics of an outstanding leader - leaders have an insatiable curiosity
for discovering and learning new things.
Leadership and learning go together. If
you have determined that your learning is behind the curve, then recommit
yourself to seeking it out at every opportunity,
in every conversation, around
every corner. Do you have a process for continual self-improvement? Get hooked
on the improvement habit. Here are some tips:
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Spend your time with optimistic,
growing people.
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Become a reader.
If you are not one already, this is an important source of learning and
reflection. Many great books are
available to inspire, guide, and instruct your
improvement effort.
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Become a speaker. I find
that some of my best insights come from trying to articulate (or write) my
thoughts.
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Become a student. Attend
workshops, seminars, and training sessions. Take college courses.
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Become a teacher. Give
internal and external presentations on your area of expertise. Volunteer to
present at the next professional
conference you were just going to attend.
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Become a writer. Do you
write in a journal for yourself? You can write articles for associations you
belong to, your local paper, or internal newsletter.
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Become a listener. You can
get hundreds of hours a year of education, inspiration, information, and
instruction by listening.
Try listening to audiotapes in your car.
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Keep your commitments.
Call back when you promised (or before). Meet your deadlines. Show up on time.
Underpromise and overdeliver.
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Put quotes, goals, reminders, and
vision statements where you will see them throughout your day. Keep
changing them and moving them around so you don't start to look past them.
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Develop a personal improvement plan.
Schedule time for personal and professional improvement as if your career
depended on it. It does.
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