Rules on how to be a better employee

Rules on how to be a
better employee

By: Alex Young
Today I will be showing you how to give

good employability skills and how to
distribute them throughout the workplace

Communication

 Employers expect good eye contact, good
posture

 A challenge is learning certain communication
skills of others

 Communication is how receive certain
information

 Employers constantly rank workers on their
communication

 It is important to develop different
communication skills

 Communication skills involve give and take
 Communication between employer and

employee are important

Effective Relationships

 Able to collaborate as a team
 Communicate effectively
 Maintain a positive attitude
 Try to overachieve the goals of the workplace
 Discipline yourself
 Sense of professionalism
 Willing to learn

Enthusiasm and Attitude

∗ Employers look for employees with good
enthusiasm

∗ Employees they believe that will complete
tasks happy

∗ New employees will smile and work hard
∗ Positive attitude helps employees go

above and beyond
∗ They will respond to constructive criticism

maturely
∗ They want to work hard and get the job

done
∗ Demonstrate a positive attitude

Teamwork

 Teamwork is essential to workplace success
 Contributing to groups for ideas
 Workers who succeed together everyone

benefits
 Workers expect to see teamwork in action
 Like planning ahead and working cooperatively to

assign tasks
 A manager may serve as a teamwork facilitator
 Consensus is wonderful but not always possible

Professionalism

∗ In order to succeed you need to be professional
∗ Like manage your time wisely
∗ Employees will work productively with others
∗ Give young employees advise and teach them
∗ In charge of your own work behavior
∗ Show high quality work standards
∗ Professionalism will look different in various

settings

Networking

∗ “its not who you know its what you know”
∗ Talking to your friends and family about your

goals
∗ Most people learn about jobs through friends and

family
∗ Networking is rarely taught but should be
∗ One out of every 200 resumes results in a job

offer
∗ Each person in their network has their own

network
∗ Networking happens every time you participate

in something

Summary page

∗ What I’ve learned throughout this is
that there are many different things it
takes to be a good employee. And
everything has its own mwaning to
help you be a better employee and a
better person in the workplace and
move up in your job.

Reference slide

 http://www.dol.gov/odep/topics/youth/
softskills

 http://cte.ed.gov/employabilityskills/ind
ex.php/framework/index

 Videos:
http://www.dol.gov/dol/media/webcast
/20121015-softskills/

 https://www.google.com/images

Thank You

∗ Thank you all for your time and
listening to my presentation