Improve Your CAREER Prospects

If you fail to prepare you prepare to fail.

          People leaders who aim to earn promotion will need to polish their skills so they become indispensable.

Here’s a handful of tips to remind you of some of the key areas to help you achieve a promotion

* Set high standards and become a popular leader

          Make time to chat with employees and clients. Take an interest in their welfare and their interests.

          Good questioners and patient listeners are popular people. They learn much.

* Become a skilled communicator

          Don’t use jargon or large technical terms. Keep your language simple and clear. Remove all surplus words or words that confuse.

          Be precise with all your requests.

          Master the art of making memorable presentations.

* Run effective and interesting meetings

          Before you call a meeting to decide on what you would like the outcome to be, all items on the agenda should be specific and labelled; ‘For a decision’; ‘For your information.’; ‘For action by….’

          Variety and humour make meetings more memorable.

          Make your meetings interesting, enjoyable and try to involve all participants. Meetings are not about ideas, they are about making things happen!

* Learn to delegate, motivate and lead successful teams

          Delegation means delegating responsibility, authority and accountability.

          Motivate your employees by giving them more responsibility, praise or rewards for tasks well done,  and advancement and recognition for their successes.         

* Become an achiever – get things done on time and offer more than is expected

     To get things done, do it now, dump it or delegate it.

• Write down your plans and get started.
• Plan logically, step by step.
• What should be done, by when?
• How will you know when it is done?
• You don’t know what you can do until you try.

 We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing. Others judge us by what we have done. 

–Geoffrey Moss (mossassociates.co.nz)

“To advance your career exceed your leader’s expectations, protect their reputations, and give them credit for your successes.”

Source, “Secrets for New Managers”. A collection of guidelines and helpful advice, First published by  Moss Associates Ltd, New Zealand and Cengage Learning, Asia. Also available as an e-book from Amazon.com and VitalSource.