How Positive Actions can Enhance your Workplace Reputation
Your reputation at work is precious, positive actions enhance it. Negative actions destroy your reputation. You get a reputation, good or bad, by people who know about you talking to others, which is why your actions contribute to your reputation, for good or ill. Some people think that if they talk enough, about how wonderful they are and how hard they work, this will give them a good reputation. It will give them a reputation but as a bighead and someone who talks instead of working.
The most obvious way to enhance your reputation is of course to work hard at your job, know everything about it and complete your tasks on time and error free whenever possible. Your colleagues will know you for a hard and diligent worker and tell others. Excellent job performance and knowledge is not enough by itself to give you the reputation that will contribute to career success.
Treating other people with consideration, respect, and good manners is another way you can enhance your workplace reputation. Remembering always that each person is important and being polite and pleasant to everyone, no matter what his or her job title, means that people will remember you as a thoroughly nice person. This will enhance your reputation because when your name comes up anyone who has encountered you will say what a pleasant person you are.
Having a positive attitude and a positive and pleasant outlook makes you a nice person to work with. Let others play the politics game and do one another down, instead encourage and praise your colleagues when they have good ideas or do a good piece of work. When working with others, help the team to hear shyer colleagues above the clamour of the more outgoing team members. Be the colleague that everyone wants on the team because you are the team member everyone can rely on to contribute his or her best efforts and bring out the best in each team member. All these things will enhance your reputation throughout your company.
Keeping your word and doing things when you say you will, enhances your reputation, not only with your colleagues and your superiors but also with customers and suppliers. Behaving in a professional manner at all times, behaving ethically and properly are other ways you can enhance your reputation.
Your actions and other people’s words will enhance your reputation. By treating other people well and considering their feelings, we get a good reputation. People who talk about their hard work and good deeds do not time to do very much. A person builds a good reputation by actions not words. Positive actions can enhance your reputation in the workplace. Most industries are close knit and your reputation can spread further than your own workplace. A good reputation is precious. A good reputation opens doors for you. If you guard your reputation well and take the actions necessary to keep it shining, it will be the key to your career success.
