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Mike
Carruthers:
Advancing
in your career takes more than skill and brains. Perhaps even
more important is people have to like you.
Karen Otazo:
If you are absolutely great at your job but you're not easy to
work with it's hard to promote you. Because promoting is about
getting you into a position where people want to be with you.
Karen Otazo,
author of the book, The Truth About Managing Your Career says
a big part of being liked is what she calls the feel good factor.
My Mom met JFK
and never forgot that moment. Because he paid close attention
to her even though she was just somebody in a room. And he made
her feel good about being with him. Your job is to make other
people feel good about being with you so that they want to be
with you. Talk with them and make them feel that they matter.
Above all Karen
says you're responsible to make sure your career goes the way
you want it to.
It means you're
responsible for thinking about your career and planning your
career and getting to know yourself. There's an old family expression
in my family- If three people say you're drunk lie down. And
if people say to you, "Oh you're really great at these
things." Or, " You're really not good at that."
And after a while you say, " I've heard that enough times,
I get it. I really am not good at the details but I do great
on laying out the big picture." You learn about yourself,
that's number one.
At somethingyoushouldknow.net
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