7 Key Steps to Making You a Better Person at Work

7 Key Steps to Making You a Better Person at Work.

Author: Da-Silva . O. Johnson

Lead Director/Consultant, HEI, Nigeria.

Some of the reasons you might not be happy in the work or place you work today might be traceable to you aside any external reasons. You might not show competence, share no idea, not improving, display ill character with no care for anyone etc. You need to be lovely before you can be loved.

The work place is a sensitive place and a second home.  Depending on your nature of job but your job is directly connected to your life. Your work has a lot to do with your Fulfilment, happiness, sustenance, and contributions to the society. Your home gives you comfort and sense of security. Your job holds your societal values and financial security. You stay longer at work than home even when you work from home or closes on time.  Work is more mental responsive than physical.

It is therefore very crucial to take our work life seriously and ensure its steady progress as one work can lead to another if taken seriously and built progressively.  This article would help you improve your work life and make you better at work if considered:

1.  Value your work.  See your work as an oxygen.  Without breath, you become lifeless. See your work as such important. Sometimes, it is better to be engaged in what you don’t really love until you get what you really love than been jobless because you learn, get connected and mentally busy than jobless life that would kill your self worth. So, any legitimate work you do deserve your full attention and should be viewed as your breath as life is meaningless when you are jobless.

2.  Love your work. Your work might not be your love but you must love your work for your self worth. Love what you do if it is not against the law.  Your pride is not in your rise but the origin of your ride. You might not be in a sector that is most celebrated but you would be celebrated in your sector and ultimately later beyond your sector if you love your work.

3.  Think your work. When you are mentally connected to your work, your worth increases at work community. You can hardly sink.  You are inspired and ideas flows your way when you think your work per day. Even difficult work situations bows to those who would take time out to think about their work. You can improve if you can brood.

4.  Do your work. Your daily approach to work matters and determine your success at work. You are not a failure just because you are not competent in your work but even when your work is not in your hands. Do your work by rising early to prepare for work, get to work and resume your work timely, do your work with the best energy and creativity, do your work even when your partner is not, do your work ethically and passionately, do your work even when you are owed salaries, do your work even when none see or appreciate you.  Just do your work since its your work and leave others to their works.

5. Look your work. Your appearance is a measure to your work and worth. If you do not dress well to work, it can affect your productivity and it tells on the value you placed on your work place or your duty. Your dressing can make you happy, confident and these can be contagious. Look good and it would reflect on your service delivery and make stakeholders find you attractive to relate with.

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6.  Be and stay motivated.  Work om your emotion as you go to work or at work. Let nothing affect your mood. Mood swing is actually bad character when you fail to manage yourself. Stay motivated and learn to encourage yourself when down. Marital issues can affect your work and can hardly be set aside so you have to handle your relationship affairs and marriage well such as you avoiding crisis. Live by your means to avoid financial crisis that can affect your personal work force.

7. Keep Learning. Yes, keep learning on your job and how to be better.  A researcher would always be better if applied knowledge acquired. Remain a student of knowledge.  Do not toy with any opportunity to learn be it through a mentor or in seminars, workshops, journals, articles, newsletters or even in learning institutions. Just remain a learner and a student of knowledge.

If you are not making yourself better at work and in your work, you are likely not going to be happy at work and if you are not happy in what you do, you would likely be unhappy in life because, work and life are highly connected. You also get more result from what you are happy doing than what you just do.

There are more than 15 steps but shared these few. You can join our institution through our school of Enhancement for your betterment. Call 07013276772. Or www. hei. com. ng