How can you be a dark horse in the workplace?

If you want to become a dark horse in the workplace, don't be a "lazy horse" in the workplace

Recently, the most news on the Internet is the Olympic Games, and the most impressive thing in the Olympics is Quan Hongchan.

Quan Hongchan, many people say that she is a dark horse of the diving team, 14-year-old her, she participated in an international competition for the first time, and won the 10-meter platform diving championship at the Tokyo Olympics with a beautiful score of 5 jumps and 3 perfect scores, and even the coach of the team next door was envious.

The result is the best answer, and I think there must be a lot of hard work hidden in this that we don't know.

Anders. Alexon and Robert. Poole's book "Deliberate Practice" tells us that deliberate practice is a purposeful practice, and we need to know which direction to go and how to get there.

Quan Hongchan said in an interview that she just wants to dance better, make more money, and treat her mother. She had a clear goal and achieved an Olympic title through constant focus. Her mentor said she was a diving genius, but she proved her diving ability with her actions.

In the past, some people tried to do somersaults and enter the water for two weeks, but they were even injured, saying that it was a dangerous action, don't do it, but you look at the current Chinese diving, such brilliant results have been achieved at a young age, which is inseparable from deliberate practice.

There is a definite difference between deliberate practice and general practice, deliberate practice has a clear purpose and is measurable

I remember that there is a program that tests how many digits a person can remember pi, some people remember a few, some remember a dozen, but some people can remember dozens of digits behind, everyone says that the one who remembers dozens of digits is a genius, talent should be there, but not everyone is a genius.

As long as you focus on the practice, get feedback, and correct the practice in time, you can also become a master in a certain field.

Quan Hongchan's coach said that she was not very good at dancing 207 movements, and she had been practicing 207 movements when she took her to Beijing.

Six, seven, or even ten, keep practicing. It's good not to compare with others, only to compare with yourself, and dance better than before.

She was already a better dancer than many people, but she stepped out of that comfort zone in order to jump better, and through repeated purposeful practice, she succeeded.

Through studying "Deliberate Practice", I have learned that as long as we have a clear purpose and a high degree of focus, get timely feedback, and get out of the original comfort zone, we will definitely be able to become experts in the industry.

Whether it's at school or in the workplace, we always encounter a lot of similar situations: we work hard, but we are always inferior to others. We may have spent a lot of time and energy on the same thing, and others have done it so lightly!

What's more, some seemingly inconspicuous people rushed out like unbridled dark horses, and then led all the way! We are puzzled, and the final self-consolation may be that others are talented, others have superior guidance, and others are lucky. But even if we change to a new environment, something like this will continue to happen.

Are we inherently inferior to others? That seemingly ordinary little shrimp suddenly became a dark horse, could it be that he secretly practiced some cheats?

However, any skill can be learned with the right approach!

As for the inferior skills, one is the attitude, and the other is the method.

Whether a person's ability can be improved depends on his attitude when facing problems. We can choose to face it positively, or we can choose to escape or take a detour. Whether a person's ability is strong or not depends on the number and difficulty of the problems he faces.

When a problem arises, what we need to do is to change our mindset and replace complaining with "how". Instead of looking for a bunch of reasons, look for all possible solutions. Sometimes it's not that we can't solve problems, but that we think inertly.

Too lazy to think! If we think about a question long enough and deep enough to be able to think about it day and dream at night, the answer will naturally come to mind.

Most of the time we can't solve the current problem with the current experience, so the next step is to get involved.

First of all, how many books have been read, how much has been digested, and how much has been practiced. Regarding professional books, we can refer to the Douban score, choose a high score, and read ten to dozens of books. These books are the author's years of experience and experience, and the problems we encounter may have been encountered by them a long time ago, with the help of the experience and wisdom of our predecessors, we can have more breakthroughs to solve.

Read more books, but not dead books. See more, but use more. Have the courage to try, allow yourself to make mistakes in the early stage, and accept your initial clumsiness.

If neither the Internet nor books can find the answer for us, then should we give up? And one more way - ask ! Ask a colleague or senior.

Although it is easy to ask, don't do a stretch party. Without your own efforts and thinking, being a take-it-it-it is useless for your own ability to improve!

Therefore, it is not that we are not capable, but that the attitude and method of solving problems are not good! If you want to be a dark horse, you must first practice your internal skills.

You need to catch the dark horse, you need to have enough strength and courage to do it, and you need to have the same vision as Bole!

There is a saying in chicken soup that says: those who work hard will always have opportunities. Half of this sentence is right, hard work is a must, and the other half says that there will always be opportunities, but the truth is not so, especially in China, where there is fierce competition among many people, it is not that there will always be opportunities, but that the opportunities for the top position are very, very limited.

So how to stand out in the workplace and become a dark horse? We have summarized a few suggestions.

The tasks assigned by the leader should be comprehensive, which is your most important plus

For example, if the leader asks you to book a conference room to talk about the project plan, ordinary employees will book it and wait for the meeting to start that day. Excellent employees will write down plan A and plan B.

Plan A is the best solution, it is the plan that the important leaders have time to have, and the meeting room is not temporarily occupied due to company-level reasons. Option b is a response to the occurrence of similar uncontrollable factors. After you explain these solutions to the leader, you may not use them immediately, but the leader will feel that you are a stable person who can be reused.

What if you use Plan B? Then the weight in leadership is one point heavier.

Timely feedback on their own tasks].

After the leader hands over the task, if there are more task processes, you should give feedback on your work in time.

Based on two reasons: 1. You may not be thoughtful as a newcomer, so timely feedback and guidance from the leader will increase the fighting friendship. 2. Timely feedback shows that you attach importance to the leader and the project.

Feedback timing: 1. Feedback only requires feedback from important nodes, don't say everything in detail, and occupy the leader's time. 2. Feedback in private message conversations with leaders, such as on the way to dinner, when you meet together when you come home from work, when you are building a team, etc.

Keep breaking through your comfort zone and expand your blind spots

After working for a year, some people in the workplace start to live in their comfort zone because they are familiar with the business, and will not expand into areas (blind spots) that they do not understand. This kind of person will never be the mainstay of the company, will never be an excellent employee of the company, and will never be the first consideration for promotion. Therefore, you must break through your comfort zone, constantly expand your horizons towards the blind spot of the business, add points to yourself, and make yourself a competitive person.

Don't be lazy at work].

The first and second years of work are the time to improve skills and accumulate energy, and it is the foundation for salary increases, promotions, and job changes after three years. So be sure not to waste time, don't be lazy at work, ask more, watch more, and do more. Constantly improve your personal skills.

In this era, only if you have the ability can you gain the respect of others, get an ideal income and social recognition.

Make good use of the time after work, don't herd sheep after work, make a plan for yourself to improve yourself every day, it can be your own skills, it can be a hobby, believe me, these will be an important force to determine your competitiveness at a certain point in time after a few months or years.

Attitude is necessary to put the first place, because no matter what we do, if we lose the positive attitude, then even the best process management will become empty talk. The importance of attitude in work is like a person's spirit, the more bright the person's eyes, the more motivated he is to work.

A good work attitude can bring many unexpected benefits, such as bringing people closer together. We have reason to believe that an employee who greets all his colleagues in the office every day must be full of fire enthusiasm in his heart. If such a colleague encounters difficulties, others in the office will be eager to contribute.

Another advantage of a positive attitude is that you decide how you want to think about things. To give a well-known example: an old woman has two daughters, the eldest daughter sells umbrellas and the younger daughter sells shoes.

When the weather is fine, the old woman sighs that the eldest daughter's umbrella must be selling poorly, and when it rains, the old woman is worried that the younger daughter's shoes will not be sold.

Changing to a positive way of thinking, it becomes that when the weather is fine, the old woman is happy that her younger daughter's shoes are easy to sell, and when it rains, the old woman is happy that the eldest daughter's umbrella is sold. You see, the way we think about a problem depends on our attitude towards it. A positive attitude allows us to find the root cause of the problem, face the difficulties, and eliminate them in one go. A negative attitude will only make people feel sorry for themselves, either holding negative emotions in their hearts, or transferring them to others, which is really hurtful to others and hurt themselves.

Scientific working methods.

With attitude, there needs to be a way to match it. There are a thousand Hamlets for every thousand readers, and the scientific method of working varies from person to person. For example, I like to run at night and read and write at night, because I think it is more efficient to have peace at night.

And quite a lot of author friends like to run in the early morning and read in the early morning, because they feel that the early morning is more pure.

Both are scientific methods, there is no right or wrong, what suits you is the best. The same is true for the method of working. Due to the different growth environments and educational backgrounds of each of us, as well as the differences in industry and corporate culture, it is impossible to have a one-size-fits-all approach.

The most scientific working method is to find out the laws in the work through each of us in the work of continuous practice, practice, and then abstract it, repeatedly refine, and finally achieve high speed and efficiency, which becomes our own scientific work method.

The right pace of work.

The right pace of work means that we need to have strong self-discipline and a sense of time management. On the basis of scientific working methods, be able to implement the plan on time and on point, review and summarize, and grasp the rhythm of work.

For mechanical business, it is possible to grasp the pace of work by reducing the time unit. Spread the business of the year to the month, the plan of the month to the week, and finally quantify it to the day, keep up with the progress in real time, and keep up with the rhythm of your own preset.

1. Be cautious and finish the work assigned to you by your boss as soon as possible.

2. Dare to innovate and accept new challenges.

3. Actively participate in company activities.

4. Keep up with colleagues who perform well.

5. Strive for perfection and improve the business level.

6. Plan your career.

7. Let your boss see your efforts.