Are you too visible?

In order to achieve success in a career, an important step is to make you visible to your boss or managers. Any expert would advise that ensuring your manager’s awareness of your contribution on the job is important, but be careful, you might be too visible to make good impressions.

Some people like do everything possible to impress managers. They talk with managers in impressive way, imitating managers’ habits, sharing hobbies with managers and they are always seen wearing the same Saints jerseys with their managers to show that they are in the same world with the managers. When talking about contributions, such people like to devaluate coworkers’ work while emphasizing a lot on their own contributions. Such people might succeed in impressing managers, but the resentments they build among coworkers will eventually send him out of the office, because managers are no fools and they would not ignore all other employees’ feeling to put an offensive guy in important position.

To increase your visibility, it’s also important to build up good relationship with people around you. Acknowledge others’ contributions will not affect your own value. On contrary, your humbleness will make people feel you a great guy not only doing good job but also good at improving the whole team.