These may sound like corporate propaganda, but it is all completely self-serving. The better your company does around you, the better you will be doing. Or the better you look to the next employer.
Lesson 1 – If your first work priority is to make the company more profitable, you will benefit. This advice alone will take you further than your peers.
Lesson 2 – Give more than they expect – attendance, effort and attitude.
Lesson 3 – Learn the job you want as well as being excellent in the job you have. If you aren’t doing your current job very well, they won’t want to promote you.
Lesson 4 – Hire people who are better than you – teach one or more to replace you. If you can’t be replaced (and everyone can be replaced) they won’t want to move you.
Lesson 5 – Always be improving – your self/your team. Act as if you are self-employed and your current company is your client. In fact, everyone is self-employed. Take care of your client, especially if it is your only one.
Lesson 6 – The folks above you are in charge and making them succeed and look good is important. Your boss is your boss and probably not an idiot. Even if he is, do your best to make the entire team shine. Undercutting your coworkers or superiors only makes you look bad.
Lesson 7 – Work in integrity even if it means stepping on toes. This is not an exception to the “don’t undercut” advice. Don’t point fingers, but don’t follow or issue orders that are ethically or legally wrong.
Lesson 8 – It is important to help everyone in the company succeed and to build solid relationships. Others are not your competition, they are your teammates.
Lesson 9 – No excuses – you either did a thing or you didn’t, the reasons are irrelevant.
Lesson 10 – It doesn’t always work out. If not, pick up and start over (but you will have made connections and gained valuable experience, so it will be much easier next time.)
These are ten easy lessons to super-charge your career. Do it.
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