Everyone will have a process of upgrading from a rookie in the workplace to an old bird. This process is like a process of upgrading and fighting monsters, and there will be countless obstacles and difficulties in the middle. If one level is not good, it may directly affect the whole career. The lazy old cat's "hard work" is no less than a strategy to break through. You may find the answers to the difficulties and puzzles you are facing now in the book.
Speaking of the book "Work hard", I have to introduce the author-lazy old cat. Lazy old cat, formerly known as Cao Yihua, is a senior partner, senior soft skill trainer and senior consultant of Beijing Times Xulong Enterprise Management Consulting Co., Ltd., and was once called "grandma in the workplace" by the media. He is not only a Douban celebrity, a LinkedIn columnist, but also a registered expert on the "in-line" platform. His main topics are "career development" and "team building" and he has been well received. Such a workplace expert tells us how to advance step by step in the workplace through his own personal experience and cases.
First, the basic principles of work
No matter work or life, most things have basic principles to follow. If you can follow the principle, you will hardly deviate from the track. So what is the basic principle of work?
1. You must understand the truth when you first enter the workplace.
Now society has entered an era of information explosion. When countless information explodes in your mind, people will become more and more anxious. Especially now, such as "career development before the age of 30 determines the rest of your life"; "Your classmate earns millions of dollars a year, and you are still looking for a job"; Headlines such as "Pancake Aunt earns 30,000 yuan a month, and you are still grabbing 2 yuan's red envelope" can be seen everywhere. If you immerse yourself in such information every day, you will only get more and more tired and often fall into deep remorse and regret.
Therefore, it must be clear that the first obstacle to people's success is absolute lack of ability, and the second is incorrect value orientation. If you can't develop in your work because of the lack of sufficient work skills, experience and knowledge reserves, this can't be solved by other soft improvements. Just like a car, it is the engine that determines the price of the car, followed by other accessories. If the power of the engine can't reach, other accessories are just embroidered pillows.
2. Find your career ideal.
In fact, many times, the gap between people has widened when looking for a job. Some people are looking for a long-term development job, while others are just looking for a business. Therefore, if you want to do a good job, the criteria before looking for a job must be clear. Standards are never afraid of heights, but they are not clear and there is no way to achieve them. If you don't know where the direction is and where the road to this direction is, it will be very difficult.
Mastering principles is more important than mastering skills.
During the interview, every interviewer will ask a question: How many years of work experience do you have? Three or five years. If you ask further, you will find that these people have actually done the same job for three years, not three years of work experience. Why is this happening? In fact, I just didn't master the basic principle of the work, but I skillfully repeated the same work.
Work is like a process of digestion. Teacher Xu Wenbing once said in Huangdi Neijing: Simply eating is not digestion. The real digestion is the process of turning pork into human flesh, and the work is the same. For on-the-job personnel, the power of true knowledge lies in asking "why" and "how to do it" for the problems that occur in the post. Then combine your own knowledge to form a solution and improvement plan. For managers and professionals, this is a really effective method, even for service work and operation work. It seems very slow. Once several key problems are solved, it will be all-inclusive and lasting.
Second, do a good job in workplace planning.
1. What's the use of career planning?
Workplace planning can confirm your achievements when you reach every node, make clear your next step, and play a driving force to grind your teeth again when you can't persist. In other words, career planning is not only to set a goal for yourself, but also to be aware of your own problems and make progress in adjustment. Therefore, without practical experience and understanding of work, you can never make a career plan. An effective career plan must be made after social experience, and it is phased and needs to be adjusted in practice.
2. The key to career planning
If you want to do a good job in career planning, the most basic requirement is to ask the right questions, that is, you must know what problems you want to solve through career planning. Only by asking the right questions can career planning be meaningful.
To ask the right question, the first step is to determine "what is my value". That is, a clear understanding of their own abilities and what kind of work they can do. Just like many graduates now, when looking for a job, they often ask for a salary of more than 10 thousand yuan, do not work overtime, enjoy legal holidays and so on. If you ask him, "What conditions do you think you have to make such a request?" The answer is often "some students in our class have this condition". This is a typical ambiguity about one's own value.
Secondly, many people want to solve the career bottleneck when planning their careers. But it must be clear that if you want to change, you must pay the price of action. If you want to start a business, you must give up the current stability; If you want to be promoted in your position, you must make more efforts; If you want to strengthen your professional ability, you must increase your study time. It's no use planning your career if you don't want to give up anything.
In fact, in the workplace, truly outstanding people can't be buried. In the era of more and more marketization, things without talent have happened less and less. To a large extent, it is also a sign that a person has shortcomings. Bole appreciates a real swift horse, not a horse that looks like a swift horse.
Third, solve the bottleneck in the workplace
The bottleneck in the workplace is a problem that everyone in the workplace will encounter. Some career planners have done statistics: in the first three months of employment, they will encounter the first bottleneck, because at this time, the freshness of work will gradually decline, and it is easy to give up in the face of work problems; The second bottleneck appears around 1 year. At this time, I can basically master my own work and get tired easily. The third bottleneck period appears in about 3 years. At this time, most people are already the backbone of the company. Besides doing their job well, they also want to develop. Once it is not reached, it is easy to get burnout.
In the book Hard Work, the lazy old cat analyzes the bottleneck in the workplace from several different levels.
1. What if I can't find a job I like?
When many people are looking for a job, besides salary, the most important consideration is whether they like the job. Indeed, we spend more than one-third of our time at work every day. If we don't like our work, it's really a very painful thing. But many people are always in a state of changing jobs frequently, and most of them are because they don't like their current jobs.
As a result, all the good times were spent adapting to the new job.
In fact, sometimes we can't find a job we like because the job we like likes people with better qualifications than us; Sometimes it's because we never really go deep into a job to cultivate our love for it. Like love, it's hard to find a job you like. Fortunately for me, I have to rely on business. For most people, it is more practical to cultivate a skill than to find a job that they like.
2. What should I do if I don't feel value at work?
The value in the work comes from two parts: one is the sense of fullness brought by the time and energy invested in the work, and the other is the feeling of affirmation and praise through the presentation of the work results.
In the workplace, there has never been a simple job. Didn't Dong Wenhong, vice president of Alibaba, rise from a small front desk to a vice president with a net worth of over 100 million?
A word called "artisan spirit" is particularly popular now. In fact, it means improving your work. When faced with work, everyone should ask himself: "Is this the best job I can do?" If we can't undoubtedly answer "this is the best job I have ever done", then our work and people are undoubtedly not strong enough to influence and impress others.
Work is very important to everyone. Through work, we can gain wealth, recognition and a sense of accomplishment. Work is not only a way for us to stand on the society, but also a practice. No matter what work is done well, you can create your own unique value.
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