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Have you heard how corporate world is all about survival of the fittest? Here are 6 corporate survival skills every woman needs to know!
Have you heard how corporate world is all about survival of the fittest? Didn’t you wish, you had some advice before you entered the corporate world? Here are 6 corporate survival skills every woman needs to know!
More than often, women hear, that corporate life is not for us. It is too competitive, either it is too demanding, or it is too hectic! And we women are ill-equipped to deal with it! As my best friend rightly observed, it is always too much when we women want to become an integral part of the corporate system.
Well, guess what? Women have been part of corporate life for decades now, and we still have to hear these ill advices!
In February, we, the team of Women’s Web, asked our readers and community members to share their most important corporate survival skills on Instagram. And the advises we got had been eye-opening pearls of wisdom! So we decided to collect them in this article for our readers!
Here are 6 pieces of advice that all of us should know.
Amplify other women! As we women have been conditioned to believe that if we work hard with integrity we will get what we deserve! But unfortunately, it is not a level playing field!
Women don’t get as much time as men to speak, we get interrupted more and are not taken as seriously as men! So we must amplify other women and their stories and make allies! Diversity only matters when diversity has a voice!
Paraphrased from the reel.
Make intentional connections beyond your immediate team, and connect with people irrespective of age, seniority and work function. Not only we can have interesting and meaningful conversations, we also learn a lot from these interactions.
As connecting and communicating with people is an imperative skill that one should build to survive in a corporate environment, we should always try to go beyond networking.
Rashmi D Rao shared an important corporate survival kit with us. She further explains that it is extremely important to communicate in the best possible way which includes verbal, non-verbal, oral or return this
Which is followed by good negotiation skills that can be formed by good understanding, good listening and good participation.
Appreciate everything small or big as it creates recognition and value. So appreciate every tiny achievement, failure, person, and success all around you.
Ask for help. Ask for help when you need it, it is not a sign of weakness! When you are stuck in a project or running late or chasing deadlines, ask for help. And do it immediately, as waiting is not doing you any favours!
It is one of the hardest life skills to practice is asking for support and openly receiving it. Yet, this skill can make you a better person and a strong leader.
Build and leverage relationships with peers, superiors and subordinates. This will help make connections beyond work and strengthen your position in the organization.
Piyusha Vir asks everyone to be vocal about your work and learn how to do it right way. Yes, it is a competitive world, and to get credit for the work you rightfully deserve, you must be vocal.
Take advantage of every opportunity to highlight your strengths and expertise. Grab challenging opportunities and grow by talking about previous successes. If you don’t talk about it, who will?
Do you have more such corporate survival skill advices and stories to share? Please let us, so that we can keep building a community of diverse voices!
This article has been written with the help of Social Media Team of Women’s Web. Each of the advice have been paraphrased from the original reel video shared with us.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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