Source: Zhaopin
Fang Fang suffered a big loss at a department meeting recently. Obviously, in the last project, she had the heaviest tasks and worked the most overtime, but in the end, her colleagues were praised, and then she was promoted and raised. I only got a perfunctory sentence of "hard work".
After thinking about it, Fangfang found that her colleagues were tired of "grabbing credit": she was too lazy to report every time, and when she needed to report the progress of her work to the leader, she would report it in a flowing account. The leader was annoyed when he heard half of it, so he let himself work harder.
On the other hand, every time a colleague reports, it is very logical, and the leader listens very carefully and praises the colleague as a capable leader of the department.
There is also the so-called "28 rule" in the workplace, although the report only accounts for 20% of the total work of employees, but 20% of the report can achieve 80% of the work efficiency and results. With the secret of debriefing in hand, a promotion and salary increase may come early.
01. Whoever is taking the initiative to report is "working hard"
Leaders prefer subordinates who take the initiative to report, and sometimes for leaders, when they are busy with work, they don't care about what you do or how you do it, and leaders care more about your work attitude.
If you don't like to report on your work, then many leaders will only speculate about your work attitude based on your work results. Even if people in the workplace have made a lot of efforts and overtime, they may only get a sentence of "hard work" from the leader in the end, and as for the substantive rewards and rewards, it all depends on the mood of the leader.
At this time, it is very important to take the initiative to report, establish your own positive personality, always "work hard", and the leader will also feel that this person is reliable, and gradually generate trust.
Xiaoting has never taken the report seriously before, she feels that she is not in an important position, she is a little transparent in the workplace, and it is good to do her own job.
But once a friend told her: "Why don't you try to report proactively? Sometimes you feel that you don't need to report, and the leader has more important things to pay attention to." But think about it from another perspective, as a leader, your employees don't communicate with you, and they don't know how the work is progressing, how can you judge her work performance and seriousness?"
Xiaoting was sober for the most part, and immediately changed her Xi. Every morning, I will briefly report to the leader about my work arrangement for the day, and some important work progress will be synchronized in time.
A week after the report, Xiaoting found that the leader's attitude towards herself had changed 360 degrees, and she began to arrange some important work for herself, which made Xiaoting feel that she was finally "seen".
After learning to take the initiative to report, people in the workplace can comprehensively improve their "workplace visibility", help themselves gradually transition from a small transparent to an irreplaceable person, and make themselves the object of trust and dependence of leaders.
02. Taking the initiative to report is the best way to grasp the leadership
In the workplace, the leader is his direct superior, and establishing a correct sense of upward management is the beginning of smooth work, and taking the initiative to report is the best way to grasp the leader.
There are two colleagues in the company who are completely different in terms of voluntary reporting.
Although colleague A is a newcomer and doesn't know much about anything, he is very independent and positive. Every time he finished his own work, he would find the leader and ask if there was any other work he needed to do.
Every time he gets a new job, he puts himself in charge of the task and tries to overcome the difficulties. He will look for information, consult colleagues and people who are familiar with this business, and at the same time, report the progress of the work to the leader at some important time nodes, and ask the leader with the solution, so that his work progress will be faster.
Every time colleague B gets a task, he will always ask the leader about the detailed work process, and the first reaction when he encounters a problem is to find the leader and let the leader find a way to solve it.
It didn't take long for colleague A to join the project core group, while colleague B was still doing some bits and pieces.
Opinions, resources, the right to decide the plan is undoubtedly in the hands of the leader, the workplace people should be able to take the initiative to communicate and report, take the initiative to play cards, and constantly improve their reporting ability in communication, so that the work can be more handy, so that the resources are more biased towards you, and you can achieve you.
03. Three tips let the leader know that you do double the work
1. Talk less about the details and report the results of the work regularly
Specifically, you can talk less about the details, such as the background, the reasons, the details of the work, and the minor issues. Leaders don't have time to listen to too many details, and too much logic will make people tired to listen.
In addition, report the results of the work, not the work process. When reporting to the leader, use concise words to state the conclusion first, and if you want the leader to know part of the process, then expand it.
Professionals can use OKR templates or similar management tools to clarify and write long reports on a regular basis, which will make leaders feel very down-to-earth and deepen their trust in you.
The time of long debriefing can be set at once 1-2 weeks, and the frequency of long debriefing can be determined according to the pace of work.
2. Write a review against the goal to reflect forward-looking thinking
When writing a work review, employees can write against the goal, and then compare their own shortcomings and overfulfilled parts to highlight the key points. This can better reflect that you are a forward-thinking professional and logical.
The work review can be the more complex work content of the system, or it can be the precipitation and summary of the recent project, or the harvest of the phased results of the project. This kind of review can form a good communication with the leader, and can also allow the leader to see the work results of the employee in a timely manner.
Highlighting the key points, being concise, and speaking with numbers are also the points to pay attention to when writing a work review. In the work report, try to be concise in language, use data to speak, and continue to report key things to make the report more rational.
Professionals can gradually develop their own reporting Xi, after forming an effective reporting mechanism, take the work report as an opportunity to show themselves, brush the "sense of existence", and can "score a big score" in the form of promotion and salary increase.
3. Report good news and bad news, and it is a plus to complete the arduous task
Leaders don't like employees to come with a bunch of questions to find answers, but they like employees to come with solutions or even alternatives, or the problem has been solved. When reporting work, people in the workplace should not only report good news but not bad news, but also good news and bad news.
Some time ago, Xiao Chen made a mistake when he took the initiative to report. It took him more than a week to finish off a big project, but the leader didn't know how difficult the project would be. Xiao Chen was too excited to report the results of his work, but he didn't mention the difficult problems he encountered halfway.
This made the leader mistakenly think that the project was not very difficult to end, and after praising Xiao Chen a few words, it ended sloppily.
People in the workplace should make the leader believe that they have the ability to solve the problem, and the task is very arduous, so that the leader knows that he has paid a lot of practical actions, such a work attitude and work pay is a great plus.
Mr. Drucker said this in his book "Effective Managers":
"Every manager should contribute data, facts, knowledge, judgment, countermeasures, command, intuition, or experience to his or her superiors. This "upward sense of contribution" can enable the boss to make the right decision, so that the boss's decision-making can effectively support his own work, at least without causing trouble to himself. ”
Take the initiative to report, although at first you may feel that "will not disturb others" and "too troublesome", but after mastering the secret of active reporting, you will find that this Xi makes you do more with less.