My manager had this to say during our team meeting:
It's no good if you're excellent at your job but nobody knows.Refreshing thought indeed!
Excellent employees jump up the value chain simply because they are able to prove to the superiors that they are valuable and capable of handling greater responsibilities.
Mediocre employees are content to do the job right and be happy with that.
While, sneaky employees rather not do any work but claim all the credit.
The point is... it's not enough to only be working in your own team and be very good at what you do. We have to constantly build the inter-departmental relationships with the managers of the other teams, to be well known and recognized, to be sought after should we decide to focus on a different job scope!
3 comments:
there is a line that separates being savvy from playing office politics.
what's the point of churning out hundreds of reports if nobody knows the sheer amount of hard work you put into it?
what's the point of spearheading cost-saving ideas that push the company's operating costs lower if you are not recognized as the brains behind the ideas?
the point is to make yourself known in a larger circle than your own. being confined to your own team may make you more efficient in your job. but if nobody else knows you apart from your boss, then the appropriate recognition may not come to you as easily as to someone who may not be as good as you, but is more visible within the organization.
maybe the title of this entry should be "BE VISIBLE"...
in other word...
Work SMART not just work HARD
but do make sure you don't step on other ppl just to climb the ladder
should I make myself appear more busy? i honestly think i don't need to announce the amount of work i'm doing... partly because i'm finding shortcuts to save myself some manual work... but yet... would people know how much redundancies i've cut down to come up with that final piece, to help them put some things in place? i don't complain also.. and one of my colleague is saying "your work is so much simpler than mine"... that's because i don't complain, i just do my work... and my colleague's work is not that much difficult.. but, because my colleague complains, it feels like, yeah, as if doing a great amount of work which is difficult to do... i can't stand people like that...
still new in my job and i dun know how my evaluation would be in such situation, both me and my colleague are new... and for me, first time working in quite a big organization...
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