Mike Carruthers:
It’s important to remember that there’s a big difference between
being good at your job and being a good employee. Kathy
Hayward:
I so often see that people think that "I do a really great
job and I produce a hundred widgets per day so they’ll never
let me go," and they’re really shocked when they are let
go because they were a problem employee.
Kathy
Hayward, author of the book, Wise
Words for Employees...
Management
will always take a worker who gets along with the other employees
and the customers over someone who produces large volumes.
So, what does it
take to be a good employee?
Employees
who make the manager and the company look good, people who can
get along with their co-workers, their clients and their contractors,
people who accept changes graciously, who can accept the task,
and then do it. Those are kinds of things that management is
really looking for when they’re evaluating employees.
And
Kathy says employees need to know their meeting skills.
Because
there are so many meetings today, and what people seem to forget
is that what you do impacts everyone else in the meeting. So,
you need to show up on time. You need to be prepared to discuss
whatever is going to go on in the meeting. You need to silence
the side conversations that are going on while someone’s doing
a presentation. Those are all things that we seem to be lacking
these days.
At
somethingyoushouldknow.net, I’m Mike Carruthers, and
that’s Something You Should Know. |
