Listen more than you talk so your input is a “little” scarce. With executives, frame things carefully. We don’t say “that doesn’t work!” we say “this will work great when we address X and Y issues, and we should do it now because Z”

Straight to the point like the other comment said. Do not fold under pressure just remember we all are just trying to do our job.

Stay calm in chaos. Be the most regulated in the room and deliver.

Listen. Be slow to speak in conversations - it will prevent you from oversharing and inserting yourself in the wrong convos

Always look like you are busy

I read somewhere to walk around in the office and BE SEEN on busy days. Being seen is very underrated.

Close your office door. People will always think you’re busy and not want to bother you

Look up the PIE theory. performance. image. exposure.

Disagree completely, it’s practical in a world with limited attention. Example: if I’m trying to get one of my reports a promotion then I have to tell their story to my org’s c-level executive. There are of hundreds of people in the org, exposure is key to showcase that person’s performance alongside all the other things that come across the decision-maker’s desk every day.

Literally it’s all optics

check who to trust and who not to trust, the ones you trust are to decompress, you can say you're full of work and are a bit tired. The ones you can't trust you'll limit the info you share, you're not tired for them, you're effortlessly working through everything for their eyes: "oh just doing some work". When someone asks for opinions on you, you'll get "hardworking" or "always working" responses 🙂‍↕

If you tend to clash with some, don’t interrupt them when they present their ideas, even concede to them on small points, so then when you fight them on the big, important things it doesn’t look like you’re disagreeing in bad faith. Shows you’re principled but not inflexible without giving up ground where it really counts.

Find a more senior person you respect and try to act and react how they do.

Yeah this doesn’t work. I work for a FAANG and being delusional will get you laughed out the door. You have to be GOOD at what you do and make sure it’s visible with leadership

I’ve survived 3 major layoffs and negotiated a salary higher than any of my team members who do the same exact job I do, with less experience. It is entirely based around optics and communication. Say the right things. Seem competent. Don’t fluster. Be confident.

Same here… survived my 4rth round of layoffs last week with same company. Finding a niche that you know well, be nice, don’t show emotion, knowing the right people and communicate

Do not fake effort. The guy whos always looking panicked and overworked got passed up by me because overlords liked that i was a calming and precise presence. Let your work speak for you. Build the relationships because you wont know they matter till they do

It’s unfortunately about relationships before anything else. The only reason I don’t like remote work is because it’s more difficult to build genuine rapport the right people

Be liked by the right people. That gets you further than being a top performer

Attend all the social functions (yes, even you introverts) - you don't even need to say anything, just listen to the conversations. They are telling you what is working and what is not. Base your work on how you can help what is lacking. Work hard - most stories [successful endings] are never achieved from a short cut, it's the journey and how you get there that impacts your audience [leaders].

Do a coffee chat with everyone (yes, everyone) on your team every 6 months or so

I owe every ounce of my success to being competent, friendly, and unafraid to embarass myself

A good attitude and a smile goes a longgggggg way

I know there are tons of tips but I absolutely believe in being authentic and 100% REAL❤

Careful on how you use this. If you have a paranoid or jealous boss, this can lead to negative consequences for you. I’m not saying to not do this, just be careful.

Say nice things about colleagues behind their backs and never gossip. The compliments will get back to your coworkers and people will trust and respect you more

Do well at the bare minimum requirements of the job. I mean really perfect them. Then befriend the important people like your boss or the office wannabe and you're sorted.

Tell people when u appreciate them/like working with them, give praise; I also kept a detailed excel file of all of the projects I completed, how long it took, when I started/ended the project, work events I participated in or volunteered for etc

Dress for the part, be punctual, reliable, emotionally regulated, avoid gossip, work hard, but don’t overwork, be a good speller and writer, learn Excel.

work hard, don't cause more work for your boss, produce and be generally pleasant to be around, know when to pick your battles

Work hard. Literally that’s it. There’s no secret sauce. Just. Work. Hard.

Underpromise overdeliver

Consistently under promise and over deliver

Not a hack: consistently deliver, have a positive attitude and think like an owner (be accountable and proactive)

1. When you have a problem, don’t come with a problem to your manager, think of a solution first - check if those solutions are possible and what is you recommended one, then go to your manager just for them to give you a green light. 2. When you are late with task, don’t wait until deadline passes, tell them before deadline why and how much more time you will need to complete it. 3. When you promised to do something even to a team assistant, even if they have forgot, still complete it in time. 4. Know your battles and be diplomatic when you speak with anyone, you can be a great performer but just one unwanted comment in the wrong place can ruin everything. These will build incredible reputation for you

My tips are to avoid drama, do your job (well) ask good questions and then don’t ask the again, and find solutions to problems

strategic decisiveness and openly admitting and fixing the inevitable mistakes

You don’t have to know how to do every single thing, but you need to be able to find the answers. Often by networking.

Prepare, prepare, prepare. It amazes how little people actually look at their schedules and tasks and put in the preparation to make the task easier…. Plus you’re always on top of your stuff in meetings.

I always do my work as soon as it hits my desk. I saw another tip that I 100% took and that was making a document of every question I have ever asked and the answer. Always put on a confident and professional face. I ask question ALL the time and I know who I am dealing with before I enter the room.

Yes! Set boundaries. I have a set start and end time to my day. I do not work through my lunch break.

A top performer doesn’t answer emails late at night or stay extra hours. They have strict working hours; respect people’s personal time and time manage wisely. That earns respect.

Say no. Higher ups love hearing an individual be able to stand their ground. Oddly saying no and refusing tasks made me confident and well respected.

That work isn’t everything funny enough lol. I stand up for myself and sometimes I’ll do it a different way. Higher management likes it. It creates less work for them. Get what they need. They just want results is what I’ve learnt ✨

don't work so hard. honestly

Do your job. Mind your own business. Smile. Be polite. Go home. Repeat.

Silently building a side gig Plan B will give you the boost in quiet confidence at your main job.

The people who constantly work late nights/weekends aren’t actually viewed as dedicated, they’re viewed as having poor time management skills. Do your work, do it very well, but do not make yourself look frantic

Yes you teach people how to treat you!

Exactly what I came to say. There are boundaries and when you stick to them people respect that.

Strike a balance between being really good at your job and showing leadership/delegation skills. I’ve worked with mannnyy people who become invaluable in their work bc they’re so good that they don’t get promoted because they’re too needed in their role.

Being irreplaceable means you’re not promotable

do the minimum and MAYBE a step beyond occasionally. the whole "work hard, go above and beyond, be reliable" is honestly bullsh*t. I did that and became "indispensable" and they wouldn't promote me because they wouldn't find anyone to replace me and do all the stuff I did.so they promoted someone else and wanted me to train them.

Be your boss’ or the company owner’s clone. The highest performer is the person that can handle business and solve problems in the same manner as the owner. Extra points if you can do it better than the owner.

Manage up. I’ve seen the worst people selected for promotion - over much better internal candidates who were “heads down” focused on getting things done - because they managed up.

this is a fun one, because if done correctly you get to tell your superiors how to act and what to expect. oddly, they like that

go to your boss with solutions, not problems. understand that you’re a filter for your boss - they don’t need to know everything you’re dealing with in your day-today, but the things they do need to know, should be framed as “I have done X because I noticed we were having X problem”. If you have regularly scheduled 1:1s, lead them and do that majority of the talking - that is your time to highlight the value you’re adding. if you have an online platform for personal development/performance reviews where you have to either make goals for yourself or enter activities related to your org’s goals, use it to map a chronological timeline of every project you worked on and the outcome, and quantify the value you added/savings you contributed to as if you’re interviewing for a better job, because you are, constantly.

Come with a few solutions even if they aren’t correct instead of just problems. It’s exhausting when a team member only is problem problem, when it could be, thoughts on doing this? Trust, I’m an exec now bc I was able to do this early in my career. I didn’t just do and pass problems .

Never just bring your boss problems, always bring solutions to that problem as well.

I’m a CEO and here is how I evaluate employees. 1. Be on time always. 2. Listen to what upper management/c level says. If something is important to us, make sure YOU are the one who gets that done, and fast. 3. Respond FAST. If we message you and you respond fast always then we assume you’re working. 4. Find out what makes us more $$ then do that on top of regular work. Then let us know about it. “Hey I saw we needed this done, so I did it what do you think? Don’t worry I still did everything else like normal”. Continue to do this over time and I would view you as a valuable employee who which I don’t want to lose. Likely offering to pay more, promote, etc

Respond to your bosses emails quickly. Participate in meetings, chats or discussions

As a female CEO with 850 team members, the best ones are the ones who get their job done and are pleasant to be around. And yes, do it LOUDLY. Communicate what you’ve accomplished so I don’t have to follow up. I can trust you’ve got it handled and will update me when you need to.

Make your boss look good. That is the only hack

Manage up to your leader and always take work off their plate. Delegate things that are time consuming for you and come easy to others.

Always make your direct supervisor look like everything good is because them. ALWAYS act happy. Never show your real mood.

Write down 3 things that MUST get done for that day.

Schedule private meetings for yourself for 30 minutes everyday. Catch up on emails, organize yourself, prep for upcoming things, declutter desktop, make checklists in priority order, bonus if you can stretch your legs or grab some fresh air

Read tribal leadership by Dave Logan, John King and Halee Fischer-wright

Because most people can’t use it to its full potential and once you can people will be coming to you asking for help like crazy. You’ll become very valuable

Be the SME. Excel expert. Be nice but unshakable.

Nix the paper to do list and use an excel workbook instead. One of the columns has the current status of all your items, another has the due date, and another the completed date. Boom-now use those metrics!

I use the Playbacks app to record meetings and interactions. It summarize’s everything for me so I can reference it later🙌🏻

I use playbacks to record my meetings and it takes notes and transcribes them for me. It gives me more time to get stuff done and I can be more present in meetings!

AUTOMATE👏🏼 I started using the playbacks app and it blows my mind that more people don’t know about it. Every time I show anyone how helpful it is they are picking their jaw up off the floor😭

If you don’t know how to do it, lean on chat gpt while delicately fact checking. People like it if they don’t have to hold your hand.

Train a Gemini Gem with information that would help you day to day. Literally a personal assistant.

learn prompt engineering..... I do more in less time and the boomer brains are blownnnnn

1. Vocabulary should be very rich 2. Outfits should be very in point, keep one pair of heels under your desk !

Dress for the part you want. Offer solutions where you see gaps. Make the proposals and deliverables you give to anyone, the best quality because it’s your brand. Agendas, documents, slide decks- all of them need to be top tier graphics. Canva has tons of templates if you aren’t creative. 😀

Dress for the job you want, not the job you have!

As a woman, wear makeup. There are studies that confirm that women who wear makeup to work are more likely to get promoted and earn more.

yeah I feel like in tech it's looked down upon to wear much makeup bc more feminine = looked down upon but there's other fields in business where it's like this unspoken competition among the ladies for how "put together" you can look with makeup/hair/fake tan game

There are some recent studies that found people listen and believe others when they’re in shape take care of themselves/well groomed

one of my old bosses said that sometimes out of work hours emails could read as "i have bad time management and couldn't do this in my 8 hours" so I suppose consider your own work environment! she suggested instead to schedule emails for the start of your shift so it appears you're immediately on top of things

I would delay emails to 5 o’clock in the morning, so it looks like on the top of the morning person

Schedule send a bunch of emails for a certain chunk of time you don’t want to do anything

Learn to manage up and being insanely responsive…. Even if it’s a simple “received will get to you end of day” type reply!

Also a corporate HR Director and this is the way.

Set key word notifications so you always just so happen to be the first one to reply to messages that matter most

I do the zero inbox method. There’s a folder for everything and only action items stay in my inbox until resolved. Then they get moved to their respective folders. Did this with 5 different inboxes at my last job and my inbox for college stuff

Same! I teach this to anyone I train, as well as keeping a "holding area" in the computer files. Emails that contained a file that must be tended to get the file saved in that hilding area. I can then file the email away in prospective folder. No attachment to tend to? It stays in my inbox until I can get to it, as mentioned by you. At any given time, I am doing two or sonetimes three positions, and it is the only way I've kept my sanity. Barely lol.

email filters have been a huge help for me and are pretty basic to set up

start responding to emails like white middle-aged man. no thank you, no please, no how are you. straight to the point. I saw that advise two years ago and started doing that. the best decision ever

“I hear you, I see you” is our motto at work. An acknowledged email goes a long way even if you don’t have the answers right away. I also never say no, it’s always “I’ll find out”!

I don't put exclamation points in my emails.

i became a director before 30, genuinely the best thing you can do is look for gaps in the business and proactively fill them. solve your manager’s problems or leadership’s problems, especially money related ones. and do it LOUDLY, tell everyone you’re doing it, make sure everyone knows you’re indispensable

Teach yourself everything about your company’s benefit packages and then pass that knowledge down to your coworkers who don’t have the time or patience or whatever to research stuff like that for themselves. I am now considered my departments “wellbeing advocate” lol

Notice the problems everyone on your team is facing and go the extra mile to create systems to fix those problems / make them easier to deal with

throw ideas at the wall until one sticks. CONSTANTLY.

Solve problems before your boss even knows there’s a problem. Then, when you talk to them, you say “I saw that XYZ was happening so I did ABC and now we’re all good.”

This may sound average, but initiative goes a long way. Seeing problems and creating a solution.

Find the metric the business cares about the most and move it. More importantly - show how you are part of the solution, and growth.

Yes. Develop niched skills!

Position yourself as an interpreter. If you can speak the languages of the other depts you work with, you’ll get more done and they’ll like you more.

VISIBILITY. CC upper management on anything you do that’s extra or impressive. Always be looking for ways you can improve processes and when you do it make sure they know. Keep it positive and always be drama free.

Over communicate… make sure it’s in email, slack, say it in meetings, put it on Basecamp. Being transparent and forthcoming is underrated. Celebrate and encourage! And I’m not saying be fake but find something to celebrate, always. These little things change the environment of any space, it makes sure people are seen and appreciated.

Make sure your boss and her boss know what you’re doing to make their jobs easier

This did not work well for me. Management hated that I questioned things

Ask questions. Always ask thoughtful questions. The more curious you are = thought leader = high performer

Talk talk talk talk in meetings. Speaking up will change your life

Be visible. Raise your hand for extra coverage, extra projects, etc. You might not end up having to do anything extra, but the leaders will remember that you stepped up. Being a strong team player adds so much value.

Make your wins known (and documented), don’t wait for someone to notice.

I made a doc called what have I done this year and keep track of all my projects with dates and pics and details and there’s another section for like to dos and praises throughout the year to submit for performance reviews

I think keep a list of stuff you did and accomplishments so you can basically self promote whenever you have meetings w superiors or performance reviews