Effort, Perseverance and Creating Opportunity

Nothing feels better than positive recognition in the workplace. When you complete a project, or even just have a performance review, there is nothing more satisfying or rewarding than your boss telling you that you are doing a great job.

It may be because as social creatures humans strive for recognition from our peers. It may be because we work so hard at what we do to better ourselves the recognition is a sign that we are making tangible progress. It may even be because no matter how hard we try we know there is always a way to improve or operate better.

Impressing your boss is something that you can do any day of the week. There is such an intimidation factor that is common between employee and employer, but usually the employer wants you to shine. In a video here you can find some advice from the psychologist Sam Owen about how to impress your boss. There are only a few things that are guaranteed to impress, but I will get to that later.

First we need to cover the basics of what every employer wants. They want to impress their boss, they want to achieve their goals, and they want to make the company successful.  Do these sound familiar? Is that what you are striving for as well? This is something that we all have in common at work that so many of us lose sight on. Even your boss is trying to impress their boss, and their boss is doing the same. This is why it is important to first understand that working together is the only way to achieve anything. If you carry on only looking out for yourself in an attempt to make yourself look better than everyone else you are limiting yourself by turning away and intimidating your co workers who could help you.

Cue the climbing the corporate ladder idioms. There is nothing that will take you farther than hard work. That is why work ethic tops my list of ways to impress your boss. Perseverance comes in a close second. Perseverance is important because you have to realize everyone has failures and everyone has hard times in their life. What matters is how you deal with those situations. I find that the harder you work and the more effort you put into something the more likely you are to find or create yourself an opportunity.