By Adrienne Erin
Online Career Tips, Contributor
If you feel unappreciated at work, your morale will suffer and productivity often follows suit. Don’t be misled into thinking you can’t have influence over what others think of you. The suggestions below will make it easier to shine at work, causing coworkers to wonder why they didn’t take notice of you before.
Change Your Attitude, Change Your Energy
When you love what you do, that makes a huge difference, because enthusiasm spreads. Even if you’re not aware of it, the attitude you have while you work plays a role in creating energy others can see.
Findings from a study published on Forbes revealed how people who were categorized as high performers around the workplace often didn’t feel motivated to come to work every day, whereas people who did a poor job were more engaged in what was going on at work. Strive to strike a balance where you do a great job and also take time to get to know coworkers, as well as what makes the whole company tick. Doing so could pay off in big ways.
Make Your Results Impossible to Ignore
Showing up at work every day and getting tasks done by their respective deadlines is a way to stay employed, but not necessarily the path to standing out. Whether you’ve been asked to make a travel itinerary for some potential clients or find the best prices for a dust collection machine to be used at the construction sites your company manages, work in a way that’s thorough, methodical and correct. When you prove an ability to excel in the little responsibilities as well as the big ones, it gets noticed.
This doesn’t mean you need to brag. Quite the opposite: by doing an outstanding job, your work should speak for you.
Socialize with Co-workers
When things seem especially bleak, it can feel like you’re plodding through quicksand and no one else in the world is quite as underappreciated as it seems like you are. A study done by the American Psychological Association clarified how feeling underappreciated can cause excess stress, too.
Ease the burden by making an effort to socially interact with coworkers, even by doing something as simple as planning a lunch date away from the office. That can give you a fresh perspective and help you realize perhaps others at work are facing similar challenges. That information may not change the way things are immediately, but can at least give you renewed energy by helping you avoid hopelessness.
Create Community Connections
It’s also worthwhile to broaden your network, and not just via Internet-based methods. Sharpening in-person networking skills around the office is important, but look deeper by reaching out to others in your local area, too. Before long, even if colleagues don’t recognize what you can do, others in the community might.
Feeling underappreciated at work is unfortunately not an isolated phenomenon. Using the tips above, you can make progress in encouraging others to see what you’re made of, and hopefully earn the recognition you deserve.
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