4 ways to impress your boss (and the increase of his career) in 2016

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From Ben Peterson

Each boss has favorites. And usually with good reason. Excellent staff make life a lot easier, and I found that kind of employees have a lot in common, which can emulate impress you're your boss and improve his career in 2016. The owners love employees consciously planned and executed, automate things you too smart to think strategically through their activities, and to ensure that every minute that they are in the labor market ready for productivity.

Create a master plan and execute.

The cliché rings true: If you do not plan to fail, you are planning. These are important elements of each plan:

• Registration: Make your plan and save it somewhere. No need chips and graphics included. Just decide what you want to do, give you a time, and write the plan down want. Review the plan, to ensure that they share the objectives and strategy of the company (which will surely get the support that you need) met, and check what you have stored frequently to ensure that you stay in the race.
• Format: his task consciously to move until it is complete and well made. For large projects to bring better his colleagues together to reflect and give feedback. Your experience will help you run more efficiently. Stop in a room so that you can reflect and refract all the details in a way that the prognosis is exactly what to do. And for large and small projects, add carefully to every detail - even if all you do is to clean your e-mail, ensuring the proper way, you will find everything. Execute your plan with exact precision, and pride in the finished product.
• Responsibility: Responsibility is a blessing and not a curse! It gives focus and direction. High performance, people are looking for and have excellent adhesion. Accountability means the responsibility of doing things for the right reasons, and do it the right way to achieve the right results. It also means going beyond to make everything (even if you have no desire to do what you have done, or stick to hard deadlines). Your plan might involve other, and responsible for the means to keep their commitments, even. Remember, the plan offers, so whatever the result depends on what you're into.

The planning and implementation of the plans will allow you to achieve more. And your boss will take note. Few things are more impressive autonomous and motivated can create schedules and maintain. And a plan you can consider is to automate some of their tasks.

Automate anything.

Great employees are hired because they are intelligent and have unique abilities - when to do things time can do a computer can waste. Your time is too valuable to spend businesses followed, manually scan the coordination and organization of projects in the e-mail, or and receipts. Here are some easy ways to automate:

• Electronic signatures: You may think you do not collect these signatures, it, much time or money, but the result of electronic signatures in divert is 80 percent, the fastest response time and save your company $ 20 per document. Instead of pursuing new employees or managers of companies, automate workflows and spend a lot of time (and money) saved to do more important things.
• Project Management: Project Management in the email dirty. It's hard to remember who is responsible for what, to share documents and collaborate. Instead of a mass of confusion to automate project to project management software - you are in good company gives 87 percent of companies use powerful project management software.
• Expenses Reports: Recipes should not scattered to the portfolios of the staff burst or through the offices of the Ministry of Finance. It is not effective and safe not occur. Employees will appreciate the ease of catches of mobile reception, and all your work processes - clarification of reporting - to improve.

Parts of automating your work shows that the chef has carefully examined projects that deserve your attention. And save time and money of the company is a great way to create more value, not to mention the strategic projects that will take you in a position, your newly cleaned time.

Be Strategic.

Do not think about your role as a job; Instead, think like a business with the customers. If you are a developer, you can your customers be the product team is looking forward to do on your code, what they demand. Each function has a client who expects a certain value. And the more value you provide to your customers, their role is more appreciated. This is where strategic thinking begins, and here are some ways to use it:

• Determine who your customers: Consider the people or departments are directly from the work they do, are affected. If your job is to bring new talent into the company, then your clients hiring managers. Once you have determined that you serve, you think (or ask), what are the expectations of its customers and unmet needs are.
• Understand what is your value and how supply: could your role storing boxes of Kleenex to lunch and configuration of equipment for new employees. But there is a higher value than what you can do: the satisfaction and employee engagement. There is a reason his company has Kleenex hand, because the staff is looking forward and concentrate better when they are given what they need throughout the day. Find out what the real value of their role and how they can offer more of the same.
• Judging whether or not their activities on the map of value to you: Now is the time to do a test, what you do do. If the activities that take most of your time, not the value of their customer needs it, what you do is not strategic. (- See above, perhaps through automation) and replace them with activities aimed at the value that you provide, you must contribute a way to reduce these non-strategic activities. This strategic.

If you treat your role as a business, you will find opportunities for strategic customers that you are used to serve for the value. Your customers will be happier, and his boss also go to more than what they need. But to take on these strategic initiatives to add value, you need to make this a priority and block time for them.

Manage your time.

How many times have you confused in a jumble of emails? Or lost in a warren of media for half an hour, without realizing how long you're gone? Even if only several times a day it is expensive distractions derailed. One study found that it takes almost 25 minutes on average to return up to the task after distraction. Instead, each request or concentration task, manage your time to focus more. Here are some ideas to help:

• Pomodoro Technique: You can avoid distractions, but do not bother to avoid breakage. In fact, 86 percent of employees agree that breaks makes them more productive. But you need to make your conscious breaks. Pomodoro technique suggests setting a timer for 25 minutes of hard work, concentrated in between with a few minutes for a break.
• Time blocking: Spending every hour of the day on a task - even if their programming is check e-mail (so you can check easy for 15 minutes several times a day and it will be a constant distraction). Lock. Their time and stick to it Applications such as Google Calendar may be suitable for this purpose; but also allow easy sharing calendars with others (ie your boss), so that they know what works.
• Kanban: This method can help you to prioritize tasks. Select the six main tasks, and begin other projects only if you look at each other (the basic idea, but no meeting more details). Kanban is also a great way to communicate your priorities to another, and also works best when all on the computer the process.

It is better to move some projects forward one foot ten projects delighted moved an inch. With emphasis and priority of your time, avoid distractions and find intense concentration, so you projects that can make a real important. And your boss will notice that you are about how you spend your time control.

So what can you do to impress your boss in 2016? Working in a targeted and better than ever. Plan and perform automate tedious tasks, be strategic and to manage your time.

And one last tip: If you really want to impress your boss, you stop your energy worrying about being his favorite. Impress your boss when employees, allowing them to spend a great job their energy into it. His boss noticed and he or she will be happy.