Career Progression: How to Stand Up For Yourself in the Work Place

In today’s workplace, many people have a hard time standing up for themselves. They take on projects to help a co-worker that they know they can’t handle, work extra hours after the regular work day to help out a boss. Even though they may have an important engagement elsewhere, they may skip their lunches in order to play catch up, all because they were too busy helping out another co-worker to get their own work done.

While their hearts might be in the right place, helping other people at the expense of your own work is not a good idea. It’s far better to learn how to stand up for yourself and use the all-important word “No.” For many people, saying “No” is harder than saying “Yes,” but what they don’t realize is how much they can cripple their own chances of success by doing so.

A simple rule to live by in life and in the workplace is to be polite, courteous, but never let someone push you around. Being nice is one thing, being a pushover is another. Pushover’s get taken advantage of and used. In order to learn how to stand up for yourself, you should try and make it a routine, something you do automatically without thought.

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