How To Become The Person People Want To Work With

Have a service heart and a servant heart.

Have a giving heart, not a “gimme” heart.

Be supportive, not competitive.

Leave your prejudices and discrimination at the door.  Better still, get rid of your prejudices and discrimination altogether.  They have no place in your career, and no place in your life.

Be low maintenance.

Respect people’s time.

Deliver “value” surprises.

Don’t throw your weight because of your status, competence, or experience.

Willingly give up the front seat, if it is important to someone, and they want it. 

Avoid back-seat driving when you do.

Try not to hog the plum work, and the fun work.

Take one for the team, by taking on the grunt work.

Be willing to do the work no one wants to do.

Be willing to do the work that gets the least limelight.

Go with the flow.

Never fly off the handle, or give in to venting.

Be watchful of your mannerisms, ones that may disturb, offend, or annoy other people

Help the team you are on to win.  If your team had a choice to pick you, or someone else, they would pick the person who could help them win.

Give advice and guidance, only when it will be helpful and constructive.

Do not give advice and guidance when it will worsen a situation.

Learn to know when to hold your tongue.

Don’t back-bite.

Don’t play double games.

Recognize the vulnerabilities of those you work with, and step aside to accommodate them.

Make other people look good, not bad.

Be willing to take the shame and the blame.

Don’t be defensive about your mistakes.

Fess up and move on.

If you follow these simple steps, you will become the kind of person people want to work with.

Maybe it's time!

Wishing you a super career.  If you’ve blown it till now, don’t worry.  We’ve all done that, at one time or another.  Just make a pact with yourself, you will do things differently going forward.  Print the list above.  Whenever you are about to blow it…..take it out and read it.  Do each of the things I’ve recommended, until they have become second nature to you. In no time, your gig will become a blast.

As always, thanks for sharing my Journey to Wisdom, Meaning and a Better Life,  and have a great day and week….M ……a Pearl Seeker like you. 

P.S. Just like you, I am trying to find my way out of this complicated maze we call life, and I am honored to have you share my journey.

Thanks  to Ajay for his compliments on my last post, and thanks to the rest of you for your likes, pins, shares, tweets and votes…..much appreciated.

Also before I end this post, Happy Birthday to all those with April b’days.  Hope you use your birthday month to birth something new and wonderful in your life.