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10 Tips for valuable contribution to a meeting
As a member of a working place, or as a participant in a one off meeting, you will have to use your office survivor talent to influence on decision making and to make your talent known and available to the organization. You can attend a meeting or you can be a participant. Whether solving problems […]
Using office politics to upgrade your salary – part 2
Hello there office survivor, it’s time for chapter number #2. when you want to upgrade your salary you might come across difficulties as companies sometimes tend not to give what you want. In this article we are going to deal with the 2nd approach, the “get it” approach. Get it Approach this step can be done […]
How to become a better decision maker
Most mangers find decision making an inescapable task. Decision making is something that is made every moment in our lives, and most of the time we take responsibility on our actions. But when if comes to the office politics environment, this changes. staff members see the manager who takes the decision as the major person […]
Using office politics to upgrade your salary – part 1
As an opposite to the compensation’s articles which you can read all about it in previous articles , right here: http://www.theofficesurvivor.com/2009/11/i-need-the-compansation-tactic-1/ http://www.theofficesurvivor.com/2009/12/office-politics-i-need-the-compensation-tactic-2/ http://www.theofficesurvivor.com/2009/12/i-need-the-compensation-%E2%80%93-tactic-3/ This article deals with the usage of the office politics in order to upgrade your salary. It’s not a secret that the real job in the office (and it doesn’t matter which office) […]
How to become a manager
Let’s assume that you work hard for years but no one really appreciates it. And let’s just assume that you’re responsible of a category that no one else can fill. Well, maybe it’s time to become a manager. In order to do so, there are a few things that you will have to do first: Become […]
Social networking pitfalls –3 rules of precaution
This article is a sequel a previous article I have wrote: http://www.theofficesurvivor.com/2009/11/using-social-networking-for-your-office-survival/ One of the buzz word today is networking, as you can find different type of social networking sites such as linkedin (www.linkedin.com), twitter (www.twitter.com) , facebook (www.facebook.com) or any other social networking that answer your needs. It’s a known fact (almost) that everyone […]
Office Politics-Wars Guide to the new Employee
Searching a new office to work at , is a hard job. You always know from where you are coming, but you never know where you are going to be just like a blind date. As a new comer-the new employee in the office playground, you aren’t aware of the different office-politics that exists and […]
Office Politics –Getting Back on Errant Friend
This article is about vengeance. Two different backgrounds for this article are: You and your best buddy are friends over 15 years now. You two came a long way:you shared some hard time, fights, fun, trips, and women. You name it. At one point in life we all made some changes. One of them can be relocation to […]
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