6 Unexpected Factors That Can Contribute To Your Future Career Success
Honing your skills, taking on more professional responsibilities, and establishing your value are great, well-known ways to make yourself a shoe-in for promotions and future career success. However, there are a few unexpected factors that can contribute to your future promotions and career success. Here are 6 great examples.
1. How You Treat Strangers: Whether you’re out at lunch with your bosses and interacting with wait staff or you’re sitting in on a series of interviews and meeting several strangers who are hoping to work at your company, you need to treat strangers well. The way you treat strangers is a deep reflection of your character and, if you’re hoping for future promotions or career success, you need to treat strangers well both in front of your coworkers, clients, and bosses as well as on your own because you never know who’s watching or who knows someone who could potentially make or break your career. Plus, it’s not that difficult to be nice and treat people with respect but it goes a long way!
2. Show Up Early: If you’re chronically late to work or functions with your coworkers and bosses you’re subtly saying that you don’t respect their time. For some people showing up early is a struggle but it makes such a positive, respectful impression that it’s worth the extra effort.
3. Don’t Shy Away From Responsibility: Taking on more responsibility before you ever get a promotion is a great way to show your dedication and a great way to grow your career. However, if you shy away from responsibility your employers may not be so keen to give you raises or promotions in the future. The value you provide should increase as your salary or position in your career increases!
4. You Learn From Mistakes: Making mistakes is natural human behavior and should be expected. If you show that you don’t sweat the small stuff and you’re able to learn from the mistakes that you make your resilience will be noted and appreciated by people who have the power to accelerate your career success!
5. Remembering Names, Faces, and Birthdays: Whether you need to take notes, create calendar events, or simply use the power of your own memory you should never underestimate the power of remembering names, faces, and birthdays. This thoughtful behavior shows that you have the potential to be a great leader and make meaningful networking connections.
6. Exceptional Listeners and Communicators: There are two skills that you should be exceptional at: listening and communicating. If you can effectively master both of these things you’ll absolutely be able to rocket your career to future career success!
These 6 unexpected factors can contribute to your future career success and a lot of them are incredibly easy to master! You should still focus on improving your skills and taking on more professional responsibilities but don’t forget about these 6 simple factors that will help propel your career forward on the right path!