✎ Lead.
Leaders like capable employees, but often they like them more than just ability.
We often think that ability is the last word in the workplace, and leaders like the most people who are capable and hard-working.
However, this is not entirely the case.
It's important to be capable, but that's only your lower limit, it determines that you're not too bad, but there's no guarantee of how far you'll go.
But in fact, leaders often value these three points more than effort and ability.
If you can do it, you will definitely be more appreciated by the leader than just doing stupid work.
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Vision and pattern
Decide your height
As the saying goes: "In the soldier's position, the chest is the commander." ”
An excellent employee who wants to be promoted can not only stare at the one-third of an acre in front of him, but should elevate himself, start from the overall situation, look at the problem from the perspective of the leader, and take responsibility for doing things, which is the vision and pattern.
1. Take a long-term view
A person's perspective on things determines his level and height.
A person with vision can jump out of his own identity, look at the problem from the position of the leader, be clear about the leader's goals and expectations, and what the leader is concerned about, and then do the things that the leader cares about, grasp the key points, and do the key work well.
In the workplace, many people feel that they have done a good job, but they have not been appreciated by their leaders.
In fact, it's because you've been busy, and you feel like you've done a lot of work, but in the eyes of the leader, you're just doing some innocuous little things.
Therefore, you must ask for more instructions and report more, and after accurately understanding the leader's intentions, you can carry out your work in a targeted manner, so that you can get the approval of the leader.
2. Have a pattern for doing things
To be a person and do things, I am most afraid of a small pattern.
Employees with a small pattern, who only care about their immediate interests and only consider their own one-third of an acre, will inevitably be complacent and difficult to become a big tool.
Employees with a pattern will treat work as their own business, not just an errand.
He will arrange his time in the overall situation of the work, and do his best to complete every task, without being perfunctory or foolish.
An employee with a pattern, who is both a general and a soldier, wants what the leader thinks, is anxious about what the leader is anxious about, and will be valued and favored by the leader wherever he goes.
Such an employee will sooner or later become a real general.
As said in the movie "The Grandmaster": "The vision determines the realm, and the realm determines the world." ”
02
Good communicator
It's more important than hard work
If there's one skill you need in the workplace, it's effective communication.
Princeton University, a well-known university in the United States, analyzed 10,000 personnel files and found that "wisdom", "expertise" and "experience" accounted for only 25% of the success factors, and the remaining 75% depended on good interpersonal communication.
This shows the importance of effective communication in the workplace.
So, how can you communicate effectively?
1. Sincerity is the first priority
No communication skill can match the word "sincerity".
In workplace communication, the first thing to ensure is sincerity, without trust, any communication is ineffective.
Once, the company wanted to do an online event, and the leader arranged Xiao Zhao as the chief planner of the event.
After Xiao Zhao received the task, he quickly issued a planning plan and showed it to the leader.
After reading it, the leader felt that the ideas were very good, but some details needed to be adjusted.
So, he called Xiao Zhao and said:
"Xiao Zhao, you have done a very good job in this plan, but if you adjust it in some aspects, I believe the effect will be better. ”
He then made some specific suggestions for improvement.
After listening to this, Xiao Zhao felt that the leader was right, and he immediately revised the plan according to the leader's suggestions.
After the plan was submitted again, the leader was very satisfied, and praised Xiao Zhao by name at the all-staff meeting, and also sent him a big red envelope.
In the workplace, only by communicating with people in good faith can you gain the trust of your leaders and colleagues, and then smoothly promote the work process.
2. Empathy is the magic weapon of communication
Empathy is extremely important in order to communicate smoothly.
When you know how to empathize, you will understand the needs of the other party, and the communication will be smoother and easier to achieve the purpose of communication.
The company wanted to do a large-scale publicity campaign, and the leader gave this task to Xiao Li.
After Xiao Li received the task, he quickly contacted the design company to make a batch of materials.
After the materials were made, she gave them to the leader as soon as possible.
When the leader saw it, he directly denied the design of the material.
Xiao Li was very puzzled, she thought the design was very good, why was it vetoed?
So, she took the initiative to communicate with the leader.
The leader said: "I think this material is too fancy, although it looks beautiful, but it is not practical.
The theme of our event is 'Simple Living', and if the material design is too complex, it will go against the theme. ”
After Xiao Li heard this, he instantly understood the intention of the leader.
She immediately contacted the design company and re-created a set of minimalist style materials, and the leader was very satisfied after the review.
In our work, when we learn to empathize, we can more accurately grasp the ideas and needs of our leaders, so as to better complete our tasks.
As the saying goes, "Effective communication is about understanding the feelings of others with empathy and responding appropriately." ”
When you learn to empathize, you will be able to feel the feelings of others better, so that you can better understand and respond to others.
This kind of communication can often achieve twice the result with half the effort.
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attitude
More important than ability
Ability determines whether you can solve current problems, and attitude determines whether you have the ability to solve future problems.
Kazuo Inamori once said, "The result of life and work = way of thinking× enthusiasm × ability." ”
In Kazuo Inamori's view, attitude is more important than ability, because passion can lead to miracles.
1. Attitude towards things
When encountering things, do not run away, can take the initiative to raise your hand and say "I come", and dare to carry things.
After you get things done, you have to do everything you can to get it done.
In this way, employees who "have work in their eyes" can often take charge of their own work and become the right-hand man of the leader.
But many people promise well when they arrange tasks.
In the end, it was not done at all, or it was done perfunctorily, and when the leader asked, he found a lot of reasons.
If so, it is better to be directly invisible at that time and not to be a bird without diamonds.
After all, a person's attitude towards doing things largely determines his professional height.
2. The attitude of being a person
As the saying goes: "Be a man in advance, be a man before being virtuous." ”
If a person's character background is very poor, then no matter how strong his ability is, he cannot be appointed.
Because the stronger his ability, the greater his influence in the organization, the more people who worship him, and his bad behavior will be transmitted to others, and the harm caused by such a person is extremely huge.
Therefore, in terms of attitude, we must maintain integrity, kindness, sincerity and other qualities.
These qualities will not only affect your career progression, but also your life trajectory.
Throughout the ages, those who can achieve great things are all well versed in the way of life.
Cao Cao's code of conduct of "rather teach me to bear the world, and stop teaching the world to bear me" made him lose Chen Gong and Lu Bu, and in the end he could only fight alone;
Liu Bei won the assistance of the Five Tiger Generals because of his loyal and benevolent attitude, and finally achieved a generation of hegemony.
It can be seen that no matter how smart and capable a person is, if he does not know how to be a man, then his career will eventually be hindered.
And the leader will definitely not focus on employees who have problems in the bank.
✎ Write at the end
As the saying goes: "What determines the upper limit of your life is often not ability, but the pattern of being a person and doing things." ”
Only when a person has a big picture can he stand taller, see farther, make more wise decisions, and better plan his life.
When you learn to elevate yourself and enlarge your own pattern, you will find that those problems that have bothered you before will be solved.