If you want to be successful in your career and truly Excel, you need to have good work
habits that drive success in this video, I'm going to share with you my seven tips for
building good work habits that drive success.
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My name is Cindy Makita Dodd.
I'm a career strategist and coach.
And in this video, I want to share with you good work habits that drive success, whether
you are an entry-level candidate or an experienced professional, these habits are going to help
you drive success, but also accelerate to that next level in your career.
They can be implemented at any stage.
So take special note because they're going to help you boost your results.
Number one is to be efficient with your time.
This means scheduling out time on your calendar, where you can get focused work done.
That's going to help you move the needle towards your goals and your team's goals.
Hyper Focus is essential.
If you want to build a successful career for yourself in this age where everybody is hyper
distracted, where we get moved around by dings and bells and people wanting our attention.
If you can build a habit of getting focused work done, that means removing all distractions
and really sitting down to move the needle towards your goals.
You set yourself up for success, be efficient with your time in a given day, because the
more efficient you are, the more you can get results for your team.
The more you add value to your organization and the more you can boost your results toward
career success.
Number two is to get feedback regularly, meet with your manager or supervisor on a regular
basis in order to get feedback from them on your performance and areas for improvement.
If you can build this ongoing and open communication between you and your leaders, it puts you
in a position to not only Excel in your career, but you are able to see blind spots that you
may not be aware of, that you can improve your performance.
If you have this open communication between you and your managers, it sets you up for
career success.
Having this open communication between you and your leaders ensures that there's no hidden
or blind spots within your career, you are very clear on areas for improvement and that
you can work on to boost your performance.
And ultimately you set yourself up on a trajectory to hitting your goals.
Number three, be proactive and not reactive.
If you are proactive, it means that you are always one step ahead.
You're not sitting back and waiting for people to tell you what to do or to do instructions.
You are going out and getting it done.
Whatever it takes.
Employers love people that are proactive and that are always one step ahead.
So position yourself as a person who is always proactive and not reactive that you anticipate
potential pitfalls or challenges that may come about and that you already find solutions
prior to them, and you will be a huge asset to your team.
And this leads me to tip number four, which is to look at problems as opportunities.
I have been in an organization where a challenge comes about and all of a sudden everybody's
morale drops.
People are feeling negative.
They don't know what to do, but on the other hand, do you see some people that step up
and they look at problems as opportunities.
This habit that you can build will ensure that people look to you for solutions.
That is a great place to be employers.
Don't hire people to tell them what problems exist.
They hire people to tell them the solutions to the problem.
And so in order to build a good work habits, that's going to lead you to success is by
looking at problems as opportunities.
Number five is to keep a work journal.
A work journal is simply a book or a notebook where you take note of all your competitions
throughout your career.
If you have a win for the week, write it down.
If you hit your quarterly or your yearly goal with your team, write it down.
If you have an accomplishment, or you achieve a result, right?
It's done your work journal will be a key part in your career.
Success.
Getting into the habit of writing your successes done.
It's going to be beneficial for you for two reasons.
Number one, when you have a performance review with your manager or your leader, you can
pull out your work journal, demonstrate and elaborate on all your wins, your successes
and your accomplishments in your role.
And it puts you in a position to negotiate a salary, increase, or even position yourself
for a promotion.
On the other hand, if you want to look for new opportunities, having a work journal is
a great starting point for your resume, because you would have listed out all the great things
that you accomplished in your previous role.
I also love keeping the work journal, because if I'm feeling down that day or I faced a
challenge at work, I can go back and revisit my successes and the wins that I got, especially
the wins that I was able to help my clients achieve.
And it automatically lifts my mood and gives me the motivation that I need to keep moving
forward.
Number six is to get out of your comfort zone.
The good work habits is to find ways to challenge yourself, whether it's taking on a new project,
collaborating with a different team, or even implementing a new initiative or bringing
the idea to the table, getting out of your comfort zone is essential.
If you want to achieve career success, because those that remain comfortable, they stay where
they're at.
They're not looking for new opportunities or challenges will remain stent.
And you are watching this video because you want to achieve career success.
So make sure that you find opportunities within your team and within your organization to
be challenged every week.
Think about the new way that you can challenge yourself because when you're challenged, that
is how you grow.
And that takes me to my final tip, which is to have a growth plan.
You cannot know what to do today.
If you don't know where you are going, a growth plan is a clear picture of the skills you
want to acquire the projects that you want to work on.
And ultimately the career professional that you want to become.
If you have a clear picture on what that growth plan is, where you are now versus where you
want to be, it will position you to find opportunities at work, to help you acquire those skills
so that you can get to that end result without a plan of action, you are simply going through
the motions.
So communicate with the leaders in your organization and those around you, what your growth plan
is not only will you start spotting opportunities to make that dream a reality.
Those around you will also start to notice you for opportunities because you have the
growth plan in place.
And so to recap, good work habits that drive success.
Number one is to be efficient with your time by scheduling hyper-focus time so that you
can be productive every day.
Number two is to get regular feedback from your coworkers and from your managers so that
you can boost your performance.
Number three is to be proactive and not reactive.
Number four is to look at problems as opportunities.
Number five is to keep a work journal where you write out your accomplishments, your wins
and your results on a regular basis.
Number six is to get out of your comfort zone and start to challenge yourself.
And last but not least is to have a growth plan in place.
I hope that you found these tips useful on good work habits that drive success for your
career.
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