Start Out Strong Presented by Mich

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Start Out StrongPresentedbyMichéle
DawsonCoordinator, Cooperative Work Experience
Education
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Demonstrate Your Value

• Be ready to run with your skills
• Display the skills that got you hired
• Be dependable
• Work hard, efficiently, and smart
• Complete your assignments ON time
• Show commitment to company goals

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Take the Initiative

• Look For What Needs To Be Done
• Contribute where needed
• Keep an Ill be happy to attitude
• Dont sit aroundget involved
• Listen to concerns or complaints
• Evaluate routine tasks
• Can They be improved? How?
• Can less steps be taken with same results?
• Can steps be taken to improve productivity?
• Can work environment be improved?

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New Kid On The Block

• Observe Your Surroundings
• What are the employees like?
• What are the written/unwritten rules?
• Whats the best way to fit in?
• Listen
• Is what youre hearing positive or negative?
• Is the communication friendly?
• Is interaction positive between staff clients?
• Is there a smile in the voice?
• Ask Questions
• About your job, responsibilities, accountability,
  order of priorities
• Chain of command, policies procedures

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Be Professional

• Wardrobe determines how you are perceived and
  will help in advancement opportunities
• Define wardrobe according to your job
• Maintain a clean and professional appearance
• Be dependable
• Keep your word treat everyone with respect
• Be a good listener do not interrupt
• Articulate your ideas using good grammar
• Think before you speak make sound decisions
• Be positive, energetic and enthusiastic
• Volunteer for unpopular assignments displaying a
  positive attitude

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Company CultureWhat To Look For

• Interaction
• Formal/Informal between employees, will determine
  how you will work
• Supervisor/employee atmosphere will depend on how
  you will respond
• Chain of Command
• Administrators, Supervisors, Employees
• Determines your loyalty on WHO NOT to overstep
  WHO to avoid
• Determines WHO to ask when, WHO the power
  players are, shows YOU how to develop your own
  power

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Summary

• Starting At The Bottom Builds Character.
• It Makes You Hungry And Determined
• Its Also The Very Best Way To Learn
• -Maria Shriver
• First Lady of California