This is How to Demonstrate Your Value at Work. Tip #1: Embrace Your Haters
You’ve underpromised, overdelivered, and volunteered to help your boss with every single project that’s come your way. You speak up in meetings, make an effort to know your colleagues, and you’ve never missed a single deadline. So why does it feel like you’re not making that much progress in your career?
There are a number of possible reasons for this (some of which you might not have much control over)–but if the usual tactics to stand out aren’t working for you, it might be time to turn to counterintuitive measures. Try one of these methods you might not have thought of to demonstrate your value at work.
EMBRACE YOUR HATERS
You might be the most polite and professional person in your workplace, but sometimes, you just don’t click with someone. For some reason, it seems like they’ve really got it in for you, and the thought of having to interact with them fills you with dread.
Amy Newmark, editor-in-chief and publisher, previously told that harboring negative feelings toward an employee hurts you more than it hurts them. After all, holding a grudge against someone takes a lot of energy that you can use otherwise for something positive. Not only that, but if you learn to view your interactions with this person in an analytical way, you can learn not to take things personally. Not only is this a valuable leadership skill to have, but it can help you immensely in negotiations as well as during sensitive conversations.
