Efficiency First: Improve Your Performance Today.

The economic recovery is still weak and the employment situation is not warm. Many workplaces are still stagnant. Their morale is low and they are unwilling to pay any extra effort. But if you can improve your performance at work, you will put yourself in a favorable position. When the opportunity is ripe, you will be able to make a fortune, or when you hear other companies recruit people, you can get a new job.

What is the best way to improve performance? We have written many articles, including suggestions for improving work performance. After reading these articles and brainstorming meetings with Forbes leadership columnist Allen (Fred Allen), I concluded 10 suggestions that will help you achieve outstanding performance in your current job.

1., be organized. E-mail, text messages, twitter and other kinds of information are pouring in, and controlling your workload may be challenging. We talked about how to conquer your e-mail inbox. This article suggests a way to prioritize urgent matters, quickly deal with things that don't take long, delete junk mail and list less urgent issues on to-do lists. An important suggestion: in order to deal with e-mail interference, we should set some rules for ourselves. Check your inbox every half an hour or hour so that you can allow yourself time to complete tasks that you need to concentrate on.

2. stop processing multiple tasks simultaneously. In 2009, a group of Standford researchers released a research report showing that people who work with multiple purposes, respond to several emails and text messages, jump from one website to another, and try to work at the same time, can not concentrate like those who are more streamlined.

3. adapt to your boss's way of thinking. We talked about several stories about how to deal with difficult boss. The most effective strategy is to understand your boss's psychology and understand his style, so that you can imagine what qualities he or she values employees. We have an article about how to deal with younger bosses, and a series of questions you can ask your boss. These questions can help you to understand her (what her previous job is and what her career ambition is). This article is about how to deal with a difficult Manager (making an agenda, not talking about a collision), and this article is about getting your superiors to treat you as a troublesome client. The general lesson is to get a clear idea of your boss's style and inclination and try to take the lead.

4. build strong relationships with colleagues outside your immediate field of responsibility. At the Walton Business School professor Stuart Diamond (Stuart Diamond)'s bestseller, "get more: how to achieve goals in the real world through negotiation" (Getting More:How To Negotiate to Achieve Your Goalsin the Goalsin), and translate Walton business school's most popular negotiation lesson, he pointed out: "all companies, even those small companies, may be very political." Diamond suggests making friends with people who can help you, including employees who have worked in the company for a long time and may work under other people's hands. staff Colleagues in the human resources department, information technology departments, even security guards and cleaners may know more about your company than you realize. Diamond called it "building your own alliance".

5. pay attention to Listen for 。 Of course, listen to what your boss says, but pay attention to your colleagues and subordinates. In our work, we often feel that it is a skill to speak well, but listening attentively to what others say can be more useful and can win more goodwill of the people you work with.

6. try to arrive early. Even 15 minutes will make things different. If you can arrive in advance Office You are one step ahead of the day's task. You can even reward yourself for a longer lunch break later, or go home earlier than usual.

7. make sure you give yourself a vacation. We wrote an article about the importance of vacations. This means that when you leave work, you do not check your work email or think about the next project. This can give you a sense of control and purpose, it can shake your understanding of time, give you space to expand cultural horizons, and let you get all people need rest, relax, charge for you.

8. once you are full of electricity, make sure that everything you do at work can be clear and accurate. If you decide to leave a colleague, but the message can not convey a subtle tone, please pick up the phone or talk with it.

9. before you start any task, you have to do a lot of research and prepare for it. Don't take up your boss's time before you do a lot of information gathering. Rehearse your strategy and goals before the meeting.

10. try to be modest. Most career proposals seem to encourage people to spare no effort in self promotion, but Howell Pearson, the author of The Unwritten Rules of the Highly Effective Job Search, says that it is best to avoid a series of exaggerated adjectives, but to simply explain what you have achieved and not to exaggerate.