Many Americans are rethinking their jobs since the pandemic. A full 25% say they are more likely to seek work in a new field, and 27% are more likely to find a new position, according to a January 2021 National Association of Personal Financial Advisors survey of 2,006 adults.
Whether you’re looking to stay where you are or boost your value for a future move, it’s smart to begin implementing strategies to help you stand out at work.
“There will be a day when the higher-ups will all be in a room discussing who to give that career-building opportunity or promotion to, and there will be someone in that room who will bang the table and say, ‘We absolutely need to give it to X. I trust them with my life,’” says Harvard career advisor Gorick Ng, author of “The Unspoken Rules.” “You want to be person X. How? By building a reputation as someone who consistently delivers — and overdelivers.”
You may feel tempted to point out your own accomplishments, but you can really shine by giving credit to someone else, Ng adds: “There’s this unspoken rule of ‘make others look good, make others feel good.’” Here’s his best advice for how to do that, and how to get ahead in general.
Boost others and ‘build allyship’
Let’s say you’d like to present on a topic or new procedure during a staff meeting, but your manager is generally the person who does this. “Could you actually get further faster by briefing your manager so that they look good in the meeting?” he says. “If they look good and feel good at the meeting, they’ll turn around and reward you for making them look and feel good.”
You can benefit from praising your co-workers publicly while handling any corrections privately, says Ng. So if you’re in a virtual meeting and a co-worker is struggling to answer a question, you can type it to them in a private chat window. “No one has to know the answer came from you, but this person that you want to build allyship with knows and hopefully will remember that,” he says.
Source: Grow
