Nine work strategies for career success.
- Taking initiative: accepting responsibility above and beyond your stated job, volunteering for additional activities, and promoting new ideas.
- Networking: getting direct and immediate access to coworkers with technical expertise and sharing your own knowledge with those who need it.
- Self-management: regulating your own work commitments, time, performance level, and career growth.
- Teamwork effectiveness: assuming joint responsibility for work activities, coordinating efforts, and accomplishing shared goals with coworkers.
- Leadership: formulating, stating, and building consensus on common goals and working to accomplish them.
- Followership: helping the leader accomplish the organisation’s goals and thinking for yourself rather than relying solely on managerial direction.
- Perspectives: seeing your job in its larger context and taking on other viewpoints like those of the customer, manager, and work team.
- Show-and-tell: presenting your ideas persuasively in written or oral form.
- Organisational savvy: navigating the competing interests in an organisation, be they individual or group, to promote cooperation, address conflicts, and gets things done.
Source: Kelley R and Caplan J (1993) How Bell labs creates star performers. Harvard Business Review, July-August, pp.128ff