Welcome back. The topic today is about how to not get fired. There's probably
something you need to stop doing or you could be losing your job. Watch closely.
Okay, you got hired, right? You got hired, you have a job. Ah! You might get yourself
in trouble with this new job. Alright, so how do you not get fired? You know, maybe
it's a new position, maybe you're a manager now and before you're a
team member but now you're at an advisor or manager. Or maybe you just got hired
as the executive. You got promoted. Well just know that you're still an employee
of the company. And just know that you are still being evaluated in what you do
and so, I think what's wise is to follow some of these tips about how to not get
fired. Because if you're not following these
things, you could get yourself into trouble and you might not even see it
coming. And you can lose your job. All that work,
everything you've done to get to that place. Why would you want to mess it up?
So, let's talk about this. One of the things that can get you in trouble
in a job is you don't fess up when you mess up. And sometimes you know, when
you're working, you might find like, "Oh, I don't need to tell anybody what happened.
It's okay what just happened." But you'll find that your management or your
executives or your... The president of the company or the leader, whoever it is, they
really like it when somebody is forthcoming. When somebody will come to
them and express to them, "Hey, this happened. I made a mistake and we need to
fix this, can we adjust this?" Because the longer a mess-up goes, the more it's
going to cost the company. And just when you think that, you know, mistakes don't get
found in a company, oh, sure enough, I'm the president of my
company, they surface to the top. And then I got to take time backtracking it to
figure out where it came from. And then when your name gets attached to it,
you're pretty much not important anymore to the company. But you can become very
important to the company and actually become literally more valuable. Because
you point out things that happened. Next one, proactively asked for a performance
review. Ask your manager, ask the advisor, ask the people who are above you to
literally evaluate you. What that will do is they'll show them that your
teachable. it'll show them that you really
care about what it is you're doing and you actually... Scores higher in their
minds that you are that teachable. Next, if you don't have a skill, admit you
don't have the skill. If you're not good on the phones, tell them you're not good
on the phones. You can really get yourself in trouble when you kind of
halfway tell the truth and then you're going to try to figure it out.
Because they can tell if you're good or not. It doesn't take very long before
actual performance really shows up. But if you enter in a place right now where
you kind of like her feeling like you're going to lose your job, you got to start
with number one here. The first bullet point. You start working yourself through
this list. Because it takes a lot of time and energy to go find another place to
work. It does. You know what it took. So, don't mess this up. Okay, next. Ask
questions. An employee, a team member who asked questions and gets clarification,
Ah! They just Excel. Your understandings
there, you're clear and you're focused. But if you don't do this,
you're going to find yourself getting in trouble. Okay, learn the goals of the
company. You know, if you're on a team and you don't know the goals of the company
and where you're going, it shows by your attitude, it shows by
your behavior, it shows by the way you talk. When there's meetings and things
like that going on, they can tell by the way you talk if you understand where the
company's going. So, get to know the company better. Even though you're saying
to yourself, "I'm not going to be here that long."
You don't want it to be cut short. So, get involved with knowing about the company
and where the companies come from and how it got built and the history of it.
Super smart to be able to give yourself a nice solid position in the company. And
that it goes along with the education. You know about the products and services.
If you don't know the products and you don't know the services of where it is
that you work, you're kind of out on the edge. You're putting yourself out on the
edge and you're going to get let go. Because you're not seen as valuable when
you don't see the company as valuable or the the business that you work for. And
it doesn't matter what size the business is. You can do all these things to help
ensure the facts you can have a good solid position on this day on this team.
And also, show up to work early. You know, somebody who shows up late, 5 minutes
late, 2 minutes late. It's noticed. Believe me, it's noticed.
Over the years of having employees, I pay very close attention to who's late. And I
also pay attention to who's early. And I will say this, those who are early are
the ones I look at to promoting. Those are the ones I look to becoming leaders.
And educational background? Yeah, that plays into a little bit but attitude and
behavior plays really really big into how I make my choices. And so, I know
other companies are the same way. Then keep your workspace clean. When your
space is dirty and messy and all, you know, goober it up in some way, it
shows you don't care. It shows you don't appreciate it, shows you don't appreciate
the equipment, the desk, the drawers. You know how in drawers you try to hide
stuff and it's all just piled on there? Clean it up, clean it up. But these are
all ways for you not to lose that job. Because if you don't do these ,you're
working your way towards the line. And of course, the last one to keep yourself
from ever getting fired is work hard but yet efficient. Efficiency matters. It
means that you're finding ways to make things a lot easier and simpler and the
way you do that is make a tracking list or make a checklist. If you can make your
own checklist and your own tracking list about what to do each day, you become
more refined which makes you more valuable for the company. So, you
literally could take this list and you could flip it around and say, "Hey, these
are the ways to get promoted. These are the ways to excel. These are the ways to
show more value towards a company." And here's a big secret of all: How you act
at work, is how you act at home. And so, instead of going to work and doing the
minimum, how about going to work and just really going for it, go beyond. And then
when you come home, you got the same kind of attitude. And now your lifestyle can
move up. I really believe the workplace is a great place to build attitude and
build behavior. So you can come and it benefits your family. Not that you
go to work and hate it and then you could bring hate home. That's not going to
benefit the family. So, take a look at what's you're learning here and realize,
"Wow, here's 9 things I could do to improve my lifestyle because I'm doing
better at work." Because we do spend a lot of time there. We do spend and invest a
lot of time. Why not make it beneficial so that you, when you come home your
family benefits from where you work. Not because of just the job but because of
the behavior and attitude you chose to have. Your children and your spouse watch
your example about how you come home and how you talk about work. And if you
downplay work and you hate work, you're teaching your children hate work. And
that's not going to go over well when you ask him to do their chores and you
want them to go get a job. They're going to remember mom and dad's example coming
home. So, we're literally raising the next generation on how they see, how it is to
go be with people and accomplish goals together and work on a team. And sure we
would rather all be playing. But really, a part of life is we can't really build
what we're building a life without some good old work. So, consider work place a
great place to build the behavior and the attitude. So, use this to keep
yourself from getting fired but also use this to build. Build who you are. Your bet
your family will benefit. Now, for you in the direction you're going, you know
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