How To Stand Out At Your Job

admin | Apr 09, 2011 | 0 comments

You have probably heard the expression, “It’s not what you know, but who you know.” In the world of business, this is actually quite true. But rather than “who you know,” in business it is “who knows you.” If you are working at a company and wondering why you are not receiving the promotions you feel you deserve, it might be because the right people do not “know” you. You need to learn how to stand out at your job in order for the right people to start to take notice.

Standing out at your job is more than just drawing attention to yourself. After all, a lot of forms of attention are nothing but negative attention, which will certainly not help you to get that raise or promotion. Instead, you need to know how to draw positive attention to yourself.

Silently doing more than what is expected of you is one of the biggest ways you can draw positive attention to yourself. By doing more than what is expected of you, you are sure to get people to notice. By doing it silently – without crowing about it or drawing attention to yourself – people will take positive notice! It should be your silent goal to outwork everyone else on your project team. When you turn in a report to your boss that he requested, the report should go much further than he could ever have expected.

Always showing up early to work and always leaving work late is another great way to draw positive attention to yourself. If you show up just fifteen minutes early and leave just fifteen minutes late every single day, it will not make a big dent in the other areas of your life, and people will surely take notice. And if you look at the rest of your life, you will surely find that there is thirty minutes of wasted time in there somewhere! Cut this time out, and use it to draw positive attention to yourself.

It is actually not hard at all to get ahead in business. Do good work – that is all you have to do; good work, and in such a way that the attention it draws your way is positive attention.