Career Tip: You can’t reach your full career potential if your employer doesn’t provide you with a working environment where it is possible to succeed.
This means you are due seven conditions for career success.
1. You are due a detailed definition of your responsibilities and authorities.
2. Your employer owes you a compensation system where the connection between efforts, results and rewards is transparent for all to see. This compensation system should include regular reviews of your performance with advice as to corrections that need to be made.
3. You should be encouraged to take reasonable risks with the assurance that you will be rewarded if you are right and not punished if after making your best effort you turn out to be wrong.
4. You should expect the resources you need to get your assignments done in a manner that produces benefits.
5. You should expect to be provided you with the training that is required to grow and take on more responsibilities.
6. Your employer should stay competitive in products, production and marketing capabilities. You should be provided with regular assessments of the health of your employer’s business.
8. You have a right to expect that your employer will act as a good corporate citizen.
All of this means you should expect to be encouraged to grow as fast as you can to take on all the responsibilities you can handle, broadening your capabilities and your experience every step of the way.
Over time, the absence of opportunity, the lack of resources and the failure to reward good work will kill the fire in even the most ambitious of us and will destroy the organizations that employ us.
All of this may seem to be obvious common sense. Indeed, it is. But look around and see how frequently it is ignored.
If your employer is not meeting your expectations you should search for other, more rewarding environments in which to build your career.
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How does this career advice square with your experience? I wish you success!
Ramon Greenwood, Head Career Coach
Common Sense At Work
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