If you don't know how to play office politics,
it's going to cost you promotions.
Top Dollar pay increases
your reputation
and any influence you have.
And don't think that you can
escape company politics by not playing,
not playing means you lose by default.
The good news is that winning at
corporate politics isn't complicated.
In fact, everything that you need to know
about how to win office politics really
comes down to just living by these five rules.
If you're ready to hear what they are,
tap the like button. And let's jump into it.
The first rule is a golden rule. And this is one
that is universally true. And I think the toughest
one to swallow, the first rule of politics is you
will not be your boss, if it's you versus them,
they're going to win 99.9% of the time, because
they have more power and authority, your boss is
the one doing your performance review, deciding
what pay increase you got an even has say in
whether or not you get a promotion. So even if you
create a situation in which you win and they lose,
you're still going to end up losing when you make
your boss feel inferior or unimportant, or trigger
their insecurity that is going to trigger their
fear. And what happens when people get scared,
they become irrational. And what happens when your
boss is irrational and channeling it towards you
not gonna work out for you, when you make your
boss, your adversary, there is no path to you
winning in the long run, you might win the battle,
you will not win the war. This is why we need to
shift to create Win Win situations, find ways to
make your boss look good. It'll make them like
you, it's going to give you favor with them. And
maybe they'll even get promoted out of your way or
you'll get promoted away from them. Because they
start bragging about you know, I already can feel
the comment being typed that my boss is horrible,
I don't want them to look good. Okay, so make them
look bad, and then they're gonna hate you, and
then you're gonna lose. Look, I see this in the
comments way too often. And we need to change our
mindset around here. The only way to sustainably
win is to help other people win along the same way
doesn't matter if you like the person that you are
helping win. No, because it's benefiting you. And
when it helps other people along the way, you are
creating a lot of positive career karma, and
improving relationships. Even if you don't like
the person, even if they're a bad boss, this is
going to pay off for you in the long run. And
ultimately, if you have to choose between losing
and winning, while someone else also wins, I would
choose winning every single time because when
you're winning, you're building a better
professional reputation, getting more
opportunities, and you're going to get paid more
straight up. And that actually brings me to the
second rule in office politics. And that is your
reputation matters way more than anything else.
The drama, The Bs, and even the coworker trying to
sabotage and undermine you doesn't matter when
your reputation precedes you. Now this is
somewhere that we can actually look to Chad to
learn a lesson. And if you don't know who Chad is,
you need to watch my five villains that work after
this because the thing is Chad follows this
fundamental role as though his life depended on
it, what people think about you and your work is
significantly more important than the actual work
that you do. Building a professional brand is an
absolute non negotiable for anyone who wants to
avoid the BS at work, maximize our opportunities
and income and be successful at work. Now I am
going to have a series coming out soon that was
really going to focus on building this strong
professional brand. So if you're interested in
that, if you're ready for that step, make sure
you're subscribed and tap the notification bell so
you get to watch those videos as soon as they come
out. But carrying off of that, that brings us to
the third rule of office politics, which is really
going to amplify your opportunity and cut a lot of
the competitive coworker drama. And that really is
you need to make an effortless impact or at least
it needs to look effortless. We've already talked
about the fact that working hard does not get you
ahead. And in fact when you have to work harder,
and by harder I mean more than anyone else in
order to achieve the same or even slightly better
results. What that's really demonstrating is that
you're not very productive or effective at your
job. This is why lazy people get ahead so I guess
we had something else to learn from chat after
all. Now, the way that you do this is by making an
on ignorable impact and you align it with your
unique awesomeness quotient, your UAQ so that it's
something that no one else can do. It'll have your
name written all over it. You're on ignorable
impact should do one of two things but ideally
both it either needs to increase revenue or
decrease costs
If you find a way to make an impact on both of
those things to maximize productivity, you are
golden, my friend. Now the best part about
honorable impact is because it is something that
is so unique to you. And especially when you
couple it with the last two rules is that no one's
going to be able to come along and take credit for
your work or undermine your impact. Because the
receipts are going to speak for themselves. The
first step in identifying what unendurable impact
you can make is by knowing your UI cue, so if you
haven't already, download your free UI cue starter
kit, I'll leave the link in the description bar,
uncover that, and that is going to guide you to
the impact that you can really uniquely make at
your organization. Now, when you're doing this,
it's also very important to abide by the fourth
rule of office politics. And that is, success is
not solitary. If you've been hanging around here
for a while, you know, that's a term that I coined
that I use all the time. Now, if you've been
someone or you've watched someone who's really
been on your own, just like you against the world,
trying to make it, you know how much struggle is
involved, it's so difficult, it's this really
steep upward climb, and chances are, you're not
going to get to the peak alone, it's possible, but
you are going to significantly increase your
chances and the ease of getting there. When you
have powerful alliances, if you are not
prioritizing building strategic relationships at
work. This needs to be at the top of your list of
career strategy, because it is so crucial in
navigating office politics. Now, we've talked
about this a few times on my channel, decision
makers need to not only know you, they need to
like you. And even more importantly, they need to
know how associating with you benefits them. Now,
really, this extends to your entire network of
advocates, including the people that influence
your decision makers, and anyone who can really
support you along the way. And this brings me to
the fifth rule of office politics, which is really
going to make the last role so much easier. But
also this is the role that has the ability to
completely change your energy at work and make a
lot of the office drama, just not matter. The
fifth rule of office politics is to remember, it's
not about you now when it comes to working with
other people approaching situations, and
especially when it comes to developing
relationships with people that you would love to
have advocate for you, I need you to be able to
answer the question, what is in it for them. Now
you don't need to broadcast this. This is a
internal monologue that you can run through.
Here's the thing we need to remember about humans,
when we're working with other humans, they're
really self motivated. Now, especially when we
think about situations where the office politics
are showing up pretty maliciously and viciously.
The thing is, is that that person isn't really
saying anything about you. They're projecting it
towards you. But it's not about you. It's actually
about them. Now, no matter what office politics or
dealing with the crazy high end, like I just
mentioned, or maybe you're just trying to get
things done or build better relationships, the
most important thing you need to put the other
individual at the center and you need to
understand them no matter the situation, whether
it's complex and negative office politics, like I
just mentioned, or general run of the mill office
politics where people are positioning to get more
power and get ahead, you need to know the players
and especially your adversaries, you need to know
who they are, what motivates them and what they're
trying to do. And that's exactly why I made this
video so that you can identify your villains at
work so you know exactly how to approach them. So
go watch that video right now. But before you go,
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