10 Tips to Maintain your Visibility at Work

Whether you work in education, for a corporation or a non-profit organization, you will need to let people know your work. If you notice there are certain people in your current organization who always seem to get recognized for their visibility at work.

If you want to move up in your career and you want to show that you can influence people in your job, it’s time to look at strategies to create visibility at work. Here are 10 tips to help you maintain visibility at work:

Take a self-inventory - this is basically an assessment of where you are in your current position. What are the skills and attributes you have that are important to the company. If you aren’t sure, ask your boss.

Keep up with professional development - make sure that you take any opportunity to upgrade your skills or your knowledge in your profession. If a new opportunity comes along, you want to be able to take it.

Take credit for the jobs you do well - when someone notices that you have done a good job, gracefully thank them and then suggest that you are pleased with what you did.

Show initiative and motivation - volunteer for committees or new products that come up. Sometimes taking a project that is a bit risky that you know you can make succeed will put you in the forefront of the bosses’ mind.

Write articles - share your information that you discover in a company newsletter or other publication that is appropriate. Also join a professional organization and write for their newsletter. This will insure your visibility at work.

Promote others - when you want visibility, help someone else to become visible. If you are a part of a team and they have finished putting together a project, make sure that they get visibility for their contributions.

Get involved - let people get to know you through company gatherings. Talk to people from all over the company and get to know a wide selection of people in addition to those you already know.

Keep a portfolio - whether you are in a job where a portfolio is necessary or not, it is a good idea to keep a portfolio of all the projects you’ve worked on and seen through to the end. Even the first page of each report is good. This will give you something to talk about to your boss at a later date.

Ask for a promotion when the time is right - some people become visible but forget to ask for a promotion when the timing is right. Use your portfolio to help and outline what you’ve done and why you feel a promotion is a good idea.

Share your knowledge - be sure to share your knowledge at conferences, in special meetings or whenever the opportunity is appropriate. The more you can maintain your visibility at work the better.

Maintaining visibility at work is important, especially if you want to move up the career ladder. These tips should help you out, the important thing is not to loose focus.

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