Marilyn Thipthorpe
What many people don’t realize is that some of their actions are damaging their careers and hurting their chances of advancement or of keeping their job. There are three detrimental habits that will keep you from success in your profession. If you want to overcome these problems and make yourself reach for the stars. Here are a few tips on the problems and their solutions.
1. Not Learning: The most successful people anywhere in the world doing whatever job or business they are currently in n, these are the people you will see are always eager to learn and taking on more responsibility. If you come to work and just sit and do what’s expected of you, you’re never going to climb up that corporate ladder. Try to take on tasks that you don’t normally do, take responsibility and get in there with your superiors to learn the tricks of the trade. The more you do, the more you learn and that’s a surefire way to have a rocking careers.
2. Wasting Time: If you pop you head through the door of any corporate office, bank or newspaper you’ll see people banging away on their keyboards or screaming into their phones- they look very busy, don’t they? Well being busy with the wrong things is not going to be of any use to you. It’s all about time management and where you’re spending the time. There’s no point at screaming at a janitor for or a colleague for half and hour when that same time can be spent more productively at your work.
3. Poor Attitude: This is a real downer and what’s bringing you down in life. Stop complaining about work being pushed onto you, stuff you didn’t sign up for or any other responsibility. Its work, you’re being paid for it; at least you owe it to yourself to give it a shot. If you still don’t like it after that and you want to drop it al together just take it up with your management and see if there isn’t some other work you can help out with instead of the one you’ve been given.