Work + Life
Maintaining engagement with those around you at work and in your field can foster opportunities for innovation and career advancement. Building positive work relationships can serve as a morale booster, too. Learning how and when to effectively communicate with those around you is crucial to making those relationships beneficial! Remember to keep it healthy - show your ability to be committed, creative, and flexible. Taking the time to follow up for a little quality assurance goes a long way also - you might just get some helpful feedback, gain new ideas for building skills, and it could lead to a job opportunity. Here are some basic rules for staying engaged with colleagues: Be effective with your communication - not sure what this means or how to do it? Watch one of our tutorials (coming soon!) on how to garner a positive response from those around you. Keep it healthy- show your ability to be positive, committed, creative, and flexible. Venting in situations of frustration, can be necessary for your mental well-being, but overdoing it can wear others out. What's worse than you being unhappy at work? EVERYONE being unhappy at work, remember negativity spreads like a virus. Be open to opportunities that develop your skills - even those opportunities not directly related to your current job. This is a great way of changing it up for professional enrichment. Make it a point of doing something new once a week - this can mean doing something new for yourself or contributing something in a new way at work. The beauty of doing something new is so you feel enriched in your own life, for yourself. If in the process, you inspire someone else to do the same, that's awesome! Just like negativity, positivity spreads like a virus too! Follow up - keeping up a good rapport with your colleagues not only shows you care and are invested, but serves as a way to make others thing about you when they look for dependability. Now, if you've read this list and thought "I've done everything here and it hasn't helped", but still remained engaged somehow? I'd LOVE to hear what worked for you! If you've read this and thought "I've done everything here and more, but still not feeling it." Then consider this - maybe it's time to take your career in a new direction. Staying engaged with those around you shouldn't be hard work when you truly want to gain something out of your experience in a relationship. If you are feeling burned out, take time to re-assess where you really want to be and decide if putting in the effort and staying resilient is worth it for your long-term goals. If staying engaged with people is a chore, try building new relationships that bring a positive influence in your life.
Maintaining engagement with those around you at work and in your field can foster opportunities for innovation and career advancement. Building positive work relationships can serve as a morale booster, too. Learning how and when to effectively communicate with those around you is crucial to making those relationships beneficial! Remember to keep it healthy - show your ability to be committed, creative, and flexible. Taking the time to follow up for a little quality assurance goes a long way also - you might just get some helpful feedback, gain new ideas for building skills, and it could lead to a job opportunity. Here are some basic rules for staying engaged with colleagues: Be effective with your communication - not sure what this means or how to do it? Watch one of our tutorials (coming soon!) on how to garner a positive response from those around you. Keep it healthy- show your ability to be positive, committed, creative, and flexible. Venting in situations of frustration, can be necessary for your mental well-being, but overdoing it can wear others out. What's worse than you being unhappy at work? EVERYONE being unhappy at work, remember negativity spreads like a virus. Be open to opportunities that develop your skills - even those opportunities not directly related to your current job. This is a great way of changing it up for professional enrichment. Make it a point of doing something new once a week - this can mean doing something new for yourself or contributing something in a new way at work. The beauty of doing something new is so you feel enriched in your own life, for yourself. If in the process, you inspire someone else to do the same, that's awesome! Just like negativity, positivity spreads like a virus too! Follow up - keeping up a good rapport with your colleagues not only shows you care and are invested, but serves as a way to make others thing about you when they look for dependability. Now, if you've read this list and thought "I've done everything here and it hasn't helped", but still remained engaged somehow? I'd LOVE to hear what worked for you! If you've read this and thought "I've done everything here and more, but still not feeling it." Then consider this - maybe it's time to take your career in a new direction. Staying engaged with those around you shouldn't be hard work when you truly want to gain something out of your experience in a relationship. If you are feeling burned out, take time to re-assess where you really want to be and decide if putting in the effort and staying resilient is worth it for your long-term goals. If staying engaged with people is a chore, try building new relationships that bring a positive influence in your life.
