Great Employee Qualities

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GREAT EMPLOYEE QUALITIES: Do You Have Them? Are great employee qualities fast disappearing in the workforce? If it is then you should quickly see if you can adapt some of these and make yourself competitive. Some great employee qualities that bosses appreciate include: 3. Managerial Attitude Even if you are in the lower rung, make sure you have a managerial attitude. This is one of the important great employee qualities. Behave like a manager and see to it that things are done the way they are supposed to 6. Strive For Excellence In everything you do, strive to be the best you can be. Take the initiative to ensure that things are going right and make sure that the details are tied down. Spend time doing what everyone else takes for granted. 1. Managing Yourself be done. Manage expectations of everyone in 7. Contribute Positively

Manage yourself by knowing your roles and the team from the boss to colleagues and peers A great employee takes personal responsiresponsibilities in your company. In addition, within the department. Stick to time lines; bility for everything they do. To be a great learn to know what it takes to go a step beyond follow up with next steps after every meeting, employee you must contribute positively to the what your current role entails. Know what have progress reports ready even if they are organization. Take initiatives, give suggestions, makes you a competitive advantage to your informal ones like an email. or even be the silent hero who solves challenges boss. How do you improve yourself? Do you 4. Managing Your Time quietly, that is how a great employee works. know your key strengths you can play up? Prioritize your work and manage your time They work to help achieve greater goals for the Weaknesses you should seek to lessen via well. Know when to do what. Do not procrasti- organization. training or even self learning? nate on work especially when they involve cross 8. Work Relationships 2. Managing Your Boss department participation. Your delay will affect Being nice to people and have great working

Perhaps one of the more important great other people's work. Great employees know relationships across departments and ranks is employee qualities is being able to manage your how to manage their time well and even manage one of the important great employee qualities. boss. That does not mean to suck up to him. their boss's time well. It means you can get a lot more cooperation and It means knowing his likes and dislikes, and 5. Outdo Yourself strong network to help you get your work done. how he works. For example, does he like to be Great employees have the stamina and set the Do you have these great employee qualities? updated via email which means he is perhaps a pace for others to follow. If you want to be great Perhaps you already have them and what you very visual based person versus being updated at what you do and be appreciated by the boss, need is a plan to bring them to be noticed. If verbally which means he is perhaps more audi- look for ways to outdo yourself. Be the best that you don’t, start to see which of these qualities tory?. Learn how to break bad news to him, you can be. Even if perfection is elusive, go out you can adopt and start on first. It will help you prepare him for meetings and the unexpected. and get it. Even if you fall short of perfection, move up the corporate ladder a little easier. You will soon become a key competitive advan tage in his team. - your near perfect would have pushed you fur ther than you would have thought possible. Article provided by Long Yun Siang www.career-success-for-newbies.com

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