Office politics and the promotion techniques

As an office sur­vivor you have to act now in order to sur­vive tomorrow

This strong sen­tence imple­ment the need to use tac­tics in the office in order to sur­vive, as after all only the strong sur­vive and the weak find them­selves look­ing for another place.

This arti­cle deals with a sit­u­a­tion you want to secure your job by mak­ing your boss “thinks” there isn’t enough man power. This tac­tics works in a small office envi­ron­ment which isn’t con­trolled tight by the supervisor.

An office sur­vivor always knows how to deal with sit­u­a­tions, as in a small office with­out a lot of work, you can find your­self doing your work and spend­ing most of the day brows­ing the inter­net or upgrad­ing your social net­work­ing skills.

This is the time you need to do some­thing, but what?

As it always nice not to work so much dur­ing the day you ask your­self what can be bet­ter; the answer is very sim­ple – be a boss, as there are 2 ways to do it:

1. your super­vi­sor will notice that there is a lot of work and as much as you try there are always left­overs – this arti­cle isn’t about this as stated ear­lier , there isn’t a lot of work.
2.  You will cre­ate the oppor­tu­nity and take a pro­mo­tion – yes take, as you cre­ate the needed sit­u­a­tion. Why to cre­ate a sit­u­a­tion? Well as an office sur­vivor mas­ter of the office pol­i­tics you know that the dream job you were think­ing you’ll have is only a dream, and as much as the office is nice your entire resume is all doll.

You need to spice it up and what is bet­ter than hav­ing a nice lead­ing posi­tion. The sit­u­a­tion in the office is very sim­ple, it’s a small office, there isn’t tight super­vi­sion on processes and there isn’t a lot of work; a thing you know but never show it to your super­vi­sor as he might deter­mine this position.

Sim­ple start to make tasks stand aside while mak­ing your­self work­ing on them, after 3–4 days, start to work and free some of the tasks that were in the queue from the 1st day and con­tinue with small tasks here and there.

A week pass your tasks queues starts to get long – but it’s doesn’t imi­tate you as you know that in a day or two you can do it all by your­self, now it’s a good time to go to your boss and start telling him about all the pres­sure at work. If you get lucky your boss will agree that an addi­tional man power is needed , at this point try to push him the idea you need some­one your with­out expe­ri­ence in order to shape him to what the com­pany needs, so he could con­tribute fast.

If you aren’t lucky and your boss dis­agree, con­tinue with process you started and get back to him after 4–5 days and start this story again… after 2–3 times of com­plain cycle, your boss will even­tu­ally agree to hire a per­son as you need; this step actu­ally inserts you into the recruit process as you define the needs and expe­ri­ence and finally at the end you’ll get some­one who’ll be under you.

The prob­lem as it might seems might start when the new employee comes, how can you work less now , if you have some­one to super­vise all the time? Very sim­ple, tutor him very slow, don’t tell him every­thing as he should make some mis­takes and needs your help– there is no need to accuse him as he new and he is defined as you want, pass all the assign­ment to him and make your­self work­ing, by this you can pre­serve your posi­tion and even take your­self a pro­mo­tion with­out wait­ing for it.

a very impor­tant rule is to find bet­ter in good, which means if your young employee comes with a solu­tion to a prob­lem look at it, exam­ine it, so it will be seen you are work­ing , and once a while tell him there are bet­ter solu­tion and give a lit­tle tip so he could start think about it.

So you take a pro­mo­tion on your­self, it wasn’t that hard, but once again it only works in spe­cific places and sit­u­a­tion, the only ben­e­fits for an office sur­vivor like your­self from this sit­u­a­tion is upgrade in your position.

As you still do hands on job from time to time (just to show every­one else) with advise and con­sult­ing to the young employee in case of lay­offs who is bet­ter to lay , some­one who knows it all from top to bot­tom or some­one who has just comes and still get advise from oth­ers. Remem­ber it’s all about sur­viv­ing and office pol­i­tics, after all if you won’t do it, there will be some­one else who will.

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