When you’re nervous because you’re the youngest person entering a room you need to know how to handle yourself. The same is true if you are a perfectionist that needs to get on with the work or a manager that has to give feedback to employees that are underperforming. These are all challenges that can seriously let you know how far you have come in your career so that you can enjoy the experience and know you handled them the right way. Take a look at the articles below and see how you can step up to the challenge and get things done the right way when you are faced with these career growing situations.
The Only 4 Speaking Tips You Need When You’re the Youngest One in the Room
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Just because you’re the youngest person in the room doesn’t mean you don’t have a valuable opinion or way to add to the collaboration. It’s important that you make sure you don’t get intimidated and act like a suit that is flat and without personality, but you also need to be curious and ask questions. You wouldn’t be allowed or invited into the room if you didn’t have something to add and contribute to the conversation. Make sure you ask questions because most of the people in the room will have something you can learn and offer you information and experience that you can feed off and make use of. You’re going to be able to enjoy learning and understanding what you want and need from those that are older and more experienced than you, while you offer these leaders of your industry the knowledge you have to offer and share.
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How to Manage Your Perfectionist Inclinations at Work
US New Careers Article:
If you have perfectionist tendencies you might have a hard time getting things done on time, but when you do get them done they are right and done perfectly. If you know you are guilty of this you have to do a few things to manage your tendencies and be able to understand what you need to about yourself. First you need to know when you should and shouldn’t use your skills set, next you have to prioritize your projects. If you have a deadline coming up quickly you need to avoid double checking yourself because you’ll end up in an endless cycle that doesn’t allow you to complete the project. Finally, if you need to get things done fast and want to make sure your perfectionist side doesn't get in the way; make sure you delegate the work whenever you can.
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Here’s How Good Managers Give Bad Employees Feedback
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When you have a problem or troubled employee you have to be able to manage them and give them feedback the right way. Before you give any feedback you need to make sure you have all of the information that you can gather and then analyze it. If you can definitively show that your employee didn’t understand what was expected in the past, you need to coach them regarding this aspect of the failure. On the other hand, if expectations were understood but not met and your employee has performed poorly, this is the aspect of coaching you need to focus on. Make sure you have a good idea of what to expect from your employee before giving feedback and do what you can to help them save face in the process.
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