Career Advice: Real Leaders Know How To Get Votes

Article by ramon Greenwood

Career Advice: Real Leaders Know How To Get "Votes"

If you truly want to be a leader and gain career success you must sell yourself and your ideas to three constituencies. After all, what you accomplish as leaders comes through the persuasion and influence you exert with other people. The truth is most of us spend too much time on the career path with our friends. We worry about our adversaries more than we should. In the meantime, we ignore the substantial majority of our co-workers who are unaware, disinterested and uncommitted to our objectives. We fail to recognize they are the key to gaining the majority support we must have for effective leadership.

You Have Three Constituencies

Job tip: You will never reach your full potential for leadership on your career path until you understand that you operate in a world made up of three distinct groups of people. Each of them is motivated by its own self-interest; each has its own distinct set of attitudes toward you.There are friends who are your unquestioning supporters. This constituency will tend to stick with you through thick and thin. Others will support you because they believe in you and for what they see as the good of the organization. Face it, others will be in your camp because of greed, fear, laziness or other human frailties.

At the other extreme are your adversaries. Recognize you have opponents and critics. Everyone does.

These opponents will be against any and everything you do. They are "aginers," generally. They take opposing positions for some of the same reasons your supporters are with you: fear, greed, self-interest, or maybe they oppose you in the belief they are serving the greater good.

How To Work With Your Constituencies

Recognizing that you have only a limited amount of time and energy, you should very carefully ration how you work with the voters in each of these basic constituencies.Strangely enough, your supporters can be the greatest threat to your progress. They can lull you into a sense of comfort, security and overconfidence that will lead to trouble. They are apt to smother you with "amens" and "Go get 'em, tiger." Always show appreciation for your supporters; communicate with them and keep them motivated, but resist spending much time with friends and supporters while you are at work. Save the camaraderie for other venues.

Your opponents at the other end of the spectrum will rarely, if ever, be won over to your side. With knee-jerk reactions, they will resist you no matter how good your proposals. If you are not careful, they will undermine your confidence and sap your strength. Worst of all, they will skew your view of opportunities. You should watch them like a hawk, but spend as little time as possible with this minority.Clearly, the best strategy for career success is to concentrate on the middle ground, those who start out as unaware, uninterested and uncommitted. They represent the balance of power. Take every opportunity to spend time with them; work to gain their confidence; and communicate your vision of the objectives and your plans to achieve them.

Here's the bottom line of this career counseling: If your ideas are sound and well presented...if your leadership deserves support and if you follow this career advice you will have a good shot at converting a majority of those in the middle. When they join your steady supporters, you will have the followers you need to reach your career goals.

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Career Advice: Rude People Foul The Nest At Work

Article by Ramon Greenwood

Building a successful career is no walk in the park. Competition is fierce. Pressure and stress are always lurking around, ready to make things more difficult. Tempers get frayed.Good manners are often overlooked in this environment. It doesn't take a career coach to know that rude people foul the nest for everyone. By the same token those who are civil and considerate in the work place have a leg up on the competition. Here are some examples of rudeness one often encounters on the job.

Bad Telephone Manners

One of my clients for career advice declared: "One of the rudest, most irritating case of bad manners is when a co-worker stands in the doorway of my office, while I'm on the telephone, and expects me to read his lips or decipher his hand signals. Then when he walks away, I have no idea what he was trying to communicate; and I have lost the train of thought I had with the client on the line.

"For all I know, the client on the phone could have threatened to fire us or my co-worker might have been telling me the building is being evacuated."

Another example: You are a guest in another person's office when your host constantly interrupts your discussion to take telephone calls.The lack of consideration is compounded when your host assures, "This will only take a minute," and then chatters on for ten times that long, including an update on his golf score. You are left sitting, pretending you are not listening to what is being said.What about the times you answer the telephone and your caller's secretary says, "Please hold for Mr. Jones. He will be with you in a moment." Five minutes later, you are still holding the line. This can be particularly annoying when the caller wants to sell you something.

No less irritating is the secretary who demands to know who you are and what you want before she will put you through to her boss

Bad manners on cell-phones are too numerous to even begin to list.

Bad-mannered Bosses

Bosses can be among the rudest and most inconsiderate people in the workplace.

For example, your boss asks you to come to his office at 9 o'clock. He wants a status report on your top-priority project. You arrive at 8:57 sharp because you don't want to keep him waiting. His secretary informs you he is running a few minutes behind schedule.

"Just have a seat," she days. "He will be with you shortly."

At 9:45, she reassures you that Mr. Big is about ready. At 10:15, you are ushered in to see him.

"I only have about 15 minutes until my next meeting," he says. "Just give me an abbreviated version of your report?"

More Rudeness

Another chronic breach of etiquette has to do with late arrivals at meetings. How often do you drop everything else to get to the session on time, only to have to wait for two or three of the other participants to show up? Sometimes they have to be called and reminded that the group is waiting. When they do come in, it is with little more than a flip, "Sorry, guys, I got tied up on the 'phone. You know Pete, you can't get him off the line."Common courtesy is ignored at meetings when there are several side conversations going on at the same time someone is making a presentation.

What about the boss who takes the occasion of a staff meeting to chew out to a subordinate? Bad manners plus.

And, by the way, whatever happened the common courtesies of "Please" and Thank you"

3 Steps To Minimize Damage

Here are three steps you can to minimize the negative impact of rudeness and help build a successful career.

1. Practice good manners. Set an example.

2. Accept the fact that there will always be rude people who would disrupt your career if you let them. Consider the source and then ignore these people.

3. If the rudeness is more than you can tolerate, speak up. Go into your more diplomatic mode and tell the person involved that you find their rude practices to be disruptive to your best effort to do your job.

I can't promises you this career advice will put a stop to rudeness, but you will feel better in made a common sense effort to deal with it.

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Question by HRC Member: Is it inappropriate to ask the president of your company for career advice?
I am working full time, going to school full time, and raising my family.

The president of our company started out as a secretary and worked her wayh to the top by doing the same thing.

I would like to talk to her since..well...she IS a woman and she is the most successful person in the company.

Would it be inappropriate to ask her for some advice? I am the first person in my family to go to college, so I do not have the luxury of guidance from home.

Any opinions on this one?

Thanks!

Best answer:

Answer by ghostscouldnevercatchyou
i think she would be flattered and would encourage you indeveloping your career.

give it a shot. i say.

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Question by whoknew?!?!: I am considering a career in Teaching, any advice?
I am considering getting my bachelor's degree for education. I have no idea what I may be getting myself into with a teaching career. Any advice? Suggested electives?

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Answer by Bill
It is important and descent job

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Question by Gerrardo: Help me with career advice please?
I want to be an Architect, but many people constantly telling me that it is a difficult career choice and the money is very low. I heard that it takes 5 years B.Arch+ 3 masters+1 year doctrine and in 3 years you can get your license. Why they are getting paid so low? Please tell me how much money I can expect as an Architect? If there any Architects or people who know??
I don't want to design people's houses or any buildings and live in apartment whole my life! Thank You.

Best answer:

Answer by Ron Diego
Just forget about what other people are telling you. If you want to be an architect, so be it. Set your goal and stick to it. Not everyone can be an I. M. Pei or Buck Fuller or Frank Gehry but there are plenty of good jobs in architecture and design.

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