How to Be Great at Your Job
Get things done. Get the credit. Get ahead.
Published on 28. August 2018
104 pages
978-1-4521-6979-8 (ISBN)
Description
In this easily accessible manual, discover a few simple rules to finding success in your career.
From an author who climbed to the top of the corporate ladder before reaching age forty, this book takes the guesswork out of career success and breaks down what it takes to excel at your job. It covers the basics, like the universal requirements of every workplace-working with other people, making stellar presentations, communicating effectively over email. And it also goes into how to get promoted sooner, impress the people high up on the corporate ladder, and do it all while maintaining your personal life and without working crazy hours. With helpful tips and simple advice, this professional guidebook is just right for someone new to the workplace or for a mid-life career changer.
From an author who climbed to the top of the corporate ladder before reaching age forty, this book takes the guesswork out of career success and breaks down what it takes to excel at your job. It covers the basics, like the universal requirements of every workplace-working with other people, making stellar presentations, communicating effectively over email. And it also goes into how to get promoted sooner, impress the people high up on the corporate ladder, and do it all while maintaining your personal life and without working crazy hours. With helpful tips and simple advice, this professional guidebook is just right for someone new to the workplace or for a mid-life career changer.
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Justin Kerr is the president of Imprint Projects and formerly an executive at Gap, Old Navy, Levi's, and UNIQLO. He lives in New York City.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Dedication
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- The basics
- Be accurate
- Take a deep breath
- Ask clarifying questions
- Be early
- Get to work early
- Turn in your work early
- Leave work early
- BONUS: MEET WEEKLY
- How to work with other human beings
- Overcommunicate
- The problem
- How to fix the problem
- Make it easy to say yes
- If someone at work hates you
- Step 1: Figure out why they hate you
- Step 2: Talk to the person (who hates you)
- How to give a presentation
- The perfect structure
- Step 1: The one-sentence overview
- Step 2: Explain the structure
- Step 3: Give them the headlines
- Step 4: Present each topic
- Step 5: Tell them what's next
- Step 6: The one-sentence conclusion
- The perfect content
- Hero facts
- Action steps
- BONUS: PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT
- How to write an email
- Six requirements of an awesome email
- Subject
- Deadlines
- Bullet points
- Jump to conclusions
- White space
- The attachment trap
- How to win an email fight
- BONUS: WHAT'S BLACK AND WHITE AND READ ALL OVER?
- How to get promoted
- Setting your goals
- Be specific
- Write one-month goals
- Accomplish two big things
- Pick a day, any day
- Understanding the playing field
- Your boss
- Your boss's boss
- Peers
- HR
- Making your case
- Step 1: Summarize your accomplishments
- Step 2: Schedule a meeting
- Step 3: Meet
- BONUS: KEEP GOING
- How to balance life and work
- How to create "me" time (during the workweek)
- Get to work early
- Eat lunch outside
- Take a class
- How to leave work at work
- Put your phone away
- Don't bring your work home
- Don't worry
- How to take time off
- Volunteer
- Take vacations
- About the Author
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