Jennifer Brick: You know that you're awesome. And
now you need to know how to excel at work? Well, I
am breaking down my best tips to be a workplace
standout. And to accelerate your career. If that
sounds good to you, let's just tap the like button
and get right into the tips today. And I am going
to start off with my best tip. And that is to be
authentic. And I feel like I could probably dig
into this one with like a whole video series. But
I don't know, maybe you guys would get bored. But
I think so much of the kind of corporate Excel
training and advice is really generic, it is very,
very canned. And really when we truly look at it,
it's antiquated. And it's only designed for a very
specific subset of the population, you know who
I'm talking about. And I'm going to daily basis, I
talk to way too many ambitious professionals who
are trying to fit into a box that just won't
contain their incredible illness, and they're
trying to be someone that they're not, and that my
friend could have a lot of bad byproducts like
anxiety, depression, stress and imposter syndrome.
Because let's face it, if you succeed at work for
being someone that you're not, you are not going
to feel like you're successful as you are. And
trust me on this, you do not want to get one or
two steps up the corporate ladder only to find
that they promoted someone else they didn't
promote you. And more important than all of that
you are authentically awesome. And the more that
you know, and you understand your unique
awesomeness quotient, your ua Q, the more that you
are going to shine on excel at work. The second
tip I have is one that I actually shared in my
video about self evaluations. And it's one of the
most crucial tips that I can give you. And it's
actually completely contrary to the standard
advice, grow from greatness. Instead of focusing
on getting better at the things that you're not
good at focus on doubling down at the things that
you're already exceptional at at work. In fact,
you do just this one thing you ignore everything
else that I tell you in this video, and that
secret to success is going to bring you far
there's a couple of reasons why the advice to grow
from your weaknesses is heavily flawed. First of
all, it's not where your potentials at, but when
we peel back the layers, what you're really going
to find is if you improve on your weaknesses, you
actually might end up hurting your strengths.
Because when we look at the interplay between the
things that we're best at, and quite frankly, the
things that we're worst at, it's the things that
we're worst at that allow us to be really great
and other things. And I actually I want you to
take a minute and think about it right now and
drop in the comments what your greatest strength
is, and how your weakness and how one of your
weaknesses actually allows you to be so good and
excel at that one thing. I'll share mine in the
comments as well. All right, so moving right
along, we're being authentic, we're focusing on
our greatness and growing from there, what's the
next step that we're going to take to excel at
work, when you are ready to excel at work, and
you're really ready to start up leveling your
career, you need guidance to get there. And of
course, there's a million different resources and
places that you can actually go in order to get
support. There's books, there's blogs, there's
YouTube videos like this one, there's online
communities there is you know, in non pandemic
times real world communities as well. You can take
courses, you can get certifications, you can get
coaching, there's so many different resources
available to help you excel at work, that really
the opportunities are endless. So from a technical
perspective, or from a knowledge perspective,
really, what you should be looking at is what
level of support you actually need. If you're
trying to acquire a new skill that is kind of
general, you know, that's the kind of thing that
you can go to for a buck. But if you're really
trying to get into the fast lane to skyrocket your
career, then you're going to want to get some
deeper level of support. And for that, you need to
figure out what it is Do you need a career coach
Do you need to invest in the course. But there's a
second deeper level to getting support that I want
to talk about. And that is when you excel at work,
you really start to stand out, and people are
going to start to discover how exceptional you
are. And this creates a lot of tension. In some
cases, this is where like coworker jealousy is
going to come into play. And you might see that
your coworkers are getting really jealous of you,
the whole company gossip thing might become a
thing. And playing with the office politics is
going to become more complicated as you ascend to
the corporate ladder. And for this, you need to be
prepared to have support from someone who is going
to hold you to your potential. I want to be really
clear here. When you excel. When you're up
leveling in your career, it is really
uncomfortable. You start to feel like a fish out
of water, especially when you get to that stage
where you're getting more responsibility. Or
you've gotten a promotion and you know what you
were great at and now all of a sudden you're like
okay, but now I have to do all these different
things. And you might even start to doubt
yourself. And your friends and your family are
going to be your cheerleaders that they might not
be the best cheerleaders that you have because
your friends and family care about you and They
want you to be safe, and they want you to be
happy. But that doesn't always align with holding
you to what you're actually capable of. And for
that, you need to make sure that you have the next
tip in place. And that my friend is to build a
success squad, your success squad is going to
include a whole bunch of different people. Now,
obviously, mentors and sponsors are really going
to come into play that your success squad is
really the group of people or even just the person
that you know, that you can lean on to help keep
you motivated, to help keep you inspired. And to
help prepare you to navigate the challenges that
you encounter in your career. This might not be a
person that you know, I might be one of your
success squad members, I hope I am I hope you're
subscribed, I hope her career besties because I
really want to help push you to the next level in
whatever way I can really the way that you can
think about this, like more colloquially is as an
accountability partner, who is someone that is
going to hold you accountable to your goals to
your dreams. And as I said to your potential, I
feel like I've said that like a million times now.
So if this is super repetitive, maybe I'll just
edit it out. Now, I would love to invite you if
you want to grow your success squad and just hang
with some people that are ambitious like you are
and dedicated to being exceptional at work, drop a
comment down below and just introduce yourself and
let us know what you're working on or what that
next step in your career is going to look like.
And this actually leads me to my next tip to excel
at work. And this one is a little bit more
tactical, you need to make sure that you were
focusing on impact. If you've been hanging around
here for a while, you know that i harp on about
the fact that one of the biggest mistakes that
professionals make is focusing on working hard,
but not working on the right things. You can be
busy as you can be doing all of the things going
to all of the meetings, sending all of the emails,
but you can be like spinning your wheels not going
anywhere. And I know that this is a really hard
truth to face. And it's something that makes
people really, really uncomfortable. And if you're
feeling really defensive right now, it actually
might be because you need to evaluate the things
that you are currently focusing on work because
there might be an opportunity for optimization.
And guess what if you haven't only been focusing
on the biggest impacts that you can make, that are
going to skyrocket your visibility at work and
make your entire leadership team know that you
excel at your job, you're totally normal. There's
so much focus on effort and just general hard work
and doing all of these hours that are completely
unproductive. And there's not enough conversation
surrounding making sure that you're working on the
right things. And when you are working on the
right things, you're going to find that you don't
need to do the 60 Hour Workweek, you don't need to
be chained to your email. And you can actually
have some semblance of work life boundaries, at
the end of the day excelling at work really comes
down to that strategic impact. And all of those
other steps are really going to lead you to the
place where you're able to identify and to
actually do that hard but really noticeable work
since you're ready to accelerate work. What you're
actually really ready to do though is to stand on
at work. And I actually have a few more tips for
you on how you can stand on work in this video. I
would love for you to go and check it out so that
you can really uplevel your career right now. If
this video was helpful in preparing you to excel
at work, make sure and tap that like button share
it with a friend that you think is exceptional and
I will see you in the next video my friends bye
for now.