Easy ways to Get Success in corporate!
Success in
corporate! It’s easier than you imagine. Trust me and please read this till the end to get
hints and clarity on it.
Every
field and sector has lots of competitions. Compared to other sectors, corporate
is very easy to get success. In other sectors 90% people are in race, remaining
10% are just out of race. Here in corporate 90% people are out of race, only
10% are in race.
Let me
explain how: in cricket 90% of all the players try extra mile, extra
innovations, extra effort to get selected or to get success. competition in
cricket is very difficult. Whereas in corporate 90% of the people are doing
only their given job. Only 10% of people do something beyond their job (doing
extra). If you consider this %, only one or two people in your team can give
some competition in the race. Remaining are not in the race. In corporate, you don't
need to run, just a brisk walk itself makes a difference.
Corporate
Success Laws:
1. EGO:
Delete your EGO, you are here to help the organisation to make more profit.
Don't bring your personal interests. (Example: you are skilled at one paid
tool, but using a free tool brings revenue to your organization, just go for
it. Nokia is the best example, it stayed with symbian OS or Microsoft by not moving to
Android)
2. Dress
Code: Follow the office dress code. You may feel casual wear gives you a
better look. But organizations don't care about our personal interests and is
interested about its image across the other organisations and clients.
3. Emails:
Write every email, as if it gets reviewed by your company CEO, no casual or
friendly emails. You never know at what time, which of your emails get referenced
to clients or higher management due to the project needs.
4. Hair
Style: Yes, it matters. Archimedes and Einstein looks are good for
architect or scientists kind, because they pay less or no attention to their
looks. But in corporate except scientists, others are expected to be in
professional haircut and styles.(Ref: Hair style matters)
5. Time
Management: Be on time and punctual, it requires no extra effort, it’s just
a time management skill. This will save organisations money. Assume: Team
meeting gets delayed by 3 minutes because of you,
as you are running late. 10 of your teammates have to wait, you are wasting 30
minutes of the organization time, time is money in corporate.
6. No
Favourites: Have no friends or relationships when you are at work. Because
this kills your personal reputation and organisation's discipline. This creates
an entry point to gossip and internal politics.
7. Be
Transparent: Be totally unbiased when hiring new talents, don't bring:
cast, religion, colour, gender, or anything. Organisation trusted you and
provided a hiring opportunity. Consider all the quality parameters before
recommending anyone.
8. Help
all: If your team or other teams approach you for help, just jump in and
help them in the most respectful way. It's an opportunity for you to create
value to the organisation and you never know when you will need help from them.
9. Respect
all: Respect every individual the way you respect and treat the billionaire
or wise. It indirectly increases your respect and visibility in the
organisation. Never discriminate people by their years of experience, gender,
skills and position. Everyone is a very important asset to the organisation.
10. Self-discipline
and self-control: Self-discipline helps to improve your organizing
and prioritising skills. Self-control is a great asset; it's based on your
emotional intelligence. If you are master in dealing with your emotions, you
are good at dealing with others. Humans are emotional creatures, dealing with
them is nothing but dealing with their emotions.
11. Be
Honest: if you want to build trust with your teams and clients, try being
honest.
12. Learn
to accept mistakes: accepting your mistakes requires courage and
self-confidence. By accepting mistake, you increase your trust level. It also
shows how transparent you are.
13.
Learn to say NO: Never over commit and under deliver, it’s always
good to under commit and over deliver. Learn to say NO and have right reasons
to justify your NO.
14. Appreciate
and Thanks: Today all are busy in getting appreciation, but no one is appreciating
others. Find a reason to appreciate someone for something and never forget to
say thanks.
My Salary Hike:
Don't ask
for a salary hike and promotion, organisation should
recognise and give. Why? Let me give my own example.
When I was
working in my first organisation, after 2.5 years. My manager called me for a one-on-one
meeting. He told me he is going to promote me as lead. I rejected his offer.
And said no Sir lead role requires a lot of
patience and management skills. By giving my manager (Prabhakar Chigateri, he
is my role model) example, I want to be like him to take that role. He did not
agreed! He said; No you are already doing a lead role, by observing that only
I'm offering this to you. He gave me 3 days’ time to come back and tell my
opinion. After 3 days again I denied his offer. He forced me as; how many years
you wanted to do what you are doing right now? It's a time for you to move
forward and take up the responsibilities and don’t worry I'm with you, accept
and move on. I finally agreed.
I don't
know how many people do this self-evaluation, before taking roles and
responsibilities. I witnessed many are getting a lot of
stress and tension to get promotion in their job.
You don't
believe, in my career only once I asked for a salary
hike in our appraisal meeting. My manager (Prabhakar Chigateri) asked me why
are you asking this. I told him, during the weekend meeting with my friends, I
got to know; we need to ask and fight for hike in appraisal meeting. (Yes,
it was a very transparent answer by me) My manager told me, Vishnu don't get
influenced by your friends and others. Be true to yourself. I understood what
he meant, till today I never asked for any hikes in any of the appraisal
meetings.
Even at
the time of recession also, I received a 30% hike
in the same organisation. How? As I said, in corporate you don't need to run,
just a brisk walk brings you a victory. Because there is no race.
I don't
think Sundar Pichai is fighting with his manager to get hike and promotions. Don't
demand hikes and promotions, your deliverables and skills should command them.
My Job
Promotion:
Only once
I suggested myself for promotion with my manager (one of the previous offices)
in a very polite way, as I was doing some management role, that was about to
get delivered from the 2-level senior designated people than me. To
justify my role, I requested that. In a day I got recommended for the promotion
and I got promoted as well. But I felt very bad about it. As I said, one should
not demand for promotion, their work should command it.
Flowers look
beautiful when they bloom on its own. It will look ugly if you forcibly tear
and make it blossom. Fruit is tasty when it ripe naturally. If you put
chemicals you make them ripe early, it will not be that tasteful and healthy.
Story from
Katha Upanishad:
Nachiketa (young boy) answers Yama, as Yama offers some money and Wealth
to Nachiketa as an exchange to compromise. Nachiketa says to Yama: One is
supposed to get, what he is supposed to get in his life. If one earns
undeserved money or wealth, it will not stay with him. If one not earned due to
injustice or politics or any other reasons? No need to worry, he will surely
get them, in one or other way. If you understand Katha Upanishad story, you
don't need to worry about your earnings or losses.
It’s very
important, one must follow office policies and guidelines:
My office policy
guides me to wear collar neck T-shirt. One day I was with round neck T-shirt my
HR head pointed that (just kidding way), I was feeling guilt. Never repeated
that again. My office suggested to use one email signature, but I like
different signature. I just threw out my personal interests and started
following the suggested one. You may question, why we need to follow all the
offices suggestions or policies? I'm doing my work perfectly; I don't follow
other things. This is absolutely against the corporate culture. You never know,
your organization is respected and recognised based on their set standard, by
denying them you are disrespecting your organization and spoiling organization’s
reputation.
How
important is it? Assume, one of your most important festival or ritual you have
not followed dress code as per culture (ex: your marriage you go with half
plants). How the entire community is going to treat you. Same way one should
bow down to the office policies or procedures. No corporate ever introduced
impossible things in policies.
Again,
following all these policies are easy, fact is 90% of them are ignored.
Following these itself you make a difference, no extra effort needed. Here you
don't need even a brisk walk, just a walk itself makes a difference.
How to
treat office work?
Treat your
office work, the way you treat your personal work. Assume you need to get
passport, they ask your ID proof, photo and so on. If you don't have all those,
you go to the places where you get them and act to obtain all required
documents. If the photo studio is closed, you go to another one or another one
till you get photo. Because it's needed for your passport. Similarly, when
office work comes, simply don't throw it into others plate by saying it’s their
job and so on. Sometimes it's your duty to follow up and get things delivered.
You may
say as, I'm following all the rules and instructions very sincerely but success
is to far for me. Remember, following all the examination rules will not get
you pass results. You must create value to the organisation. Again, it's not
based on how many hours you work, it based on how much value you create from
your work.
Again, you
may say, I'm 100% disciplined, punctual, hardworking, value creation person.
Unfortunately, due to office politics and favouritism, people like me will
never get any growth. Here is a solution: Negative thinking and Negative
vibrations will push you down. It's a metaphysical fact, [some call as law of
attraction] our thoughts are very powerful tools. If you use them to destroy
yourself, they will destroy you. Being ambitious and thinking positively will
create different frequencies and vibration's in you, they will take you to the
success path. Stop complaining and learn to improve your required skills.
If you are
blaming or in the company of blaming people, you have
no possibility of getting any success or growth. How management supports the
people who are throwing negative comments and a lot of disrespect to their own
organization. Stop gossiping and keep distance from gossiping people.
By
following all the above, still if you are not achieving success in the corporate.
Just chill! Real success in life is, one should live a peaceful and joyful
life. Examine the life of teachers, doctors, and daily labourer's; most of them
are serving only one job and one designation till they get retirement. They are
doing wonderful service in their given job. That itself is a success, have no desperation
towards success in job, that will lead you to depression and chronic health
issues. Being ambitious is not wrong. Make sure you are just celebrating every
moment in life.
Author: GCV (Vishnuvardhana GC)
Kereya neeranu Kerege chelli
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