Know if you are doing well at work or not

When you are at work and working hard, you may still have doubts if you are indeed doing well. You may ponder if whatever you are doing is creating the desired impact. Such concerns may be superfluous because ostensibly they could be generated by disturbances in work currents caused by excessively busy schedules or even differences with your co-workers. It may also be possible that your co-workers and others are reluctant to acclaim your efforts for reasons best known to them. Therefore, it is your responsibility to watch out for indirect telling indications to suggest that your work is being appreciated.  

You will not be able to excel in your assigned responsibilities if you do not take delight in it. A lack of enthusiasm towards your work will probably preclude you from coming to it all together. On the other hand, you can always be happy at work if your efforts are acknowledged. But it is likely that you fail to notice appreciative feelings. It is possible for you to evaluate your overall performance at work by some introspection. You should gauge your work and performance in the backdrop of three yardsticks:

· Meeting various job expectations set out for you: Every job has a set of fundamental expectations that would be defined as a charter of responsibilities and made known to you at the time of hiring. It is necessary that you are fully aware of them. And more importantly, you should know for yourself if you have discharged them satisfactorily or not. You could be fulfilling the minimum that is expected of you, but your boss and others could expect additional contributions. And unless you do that, things may not prove to be really rosy. You need to exert more and deliver more if you really seek to excel and rise up. Hard work will entail pain, but then you have to experience it to inherit the gain.

· Willingness to walk the extra mile: When we talk of additional tasks, they imply those that others do not do. You will have an assigned charter, but you still need to shoulder responsibilities that are beyond it so that you are able have the spotlight on you. And when you indulge in such volunteering, your contributions will be seen as worth-augmentation initiatives because of new ideas that you will put forth. Just in case if you are not clear about how to go about doing this, remember that all organisations seek to boost productivity levels and make maximum profits. You can make significant contributions in this regard by suggesting interior economy measures. At the end of the day, it is what you contribute beyond your primary responsibilities that will matter and make you stand out. Remember that you were not born to just trudge along like others; you were born to make a difference. And you can make a difference if you are willing to walk the extra mile.

· Estimations of others about you & your work: You should have a clear discernment of how others feel about you and the work that you ought to be doing. This discernment is significant because in any business environment, it is the discernment that constitutes actuality. You simply cannot work in quarantine and be oblivious of what your seniors and others who matter expect of you. If you are unaware and unmindful of their acuities, you doing well will be of no consequence. Therefore, you should make serious efforts to obtain responses and reactions to the way you work and results you achieve. It is essential that you stay line up with their outlooks and anticipations.

It is your responsibility to watch out for all pointers of appreciation, howsoever small they may be. The indicators will be apparent when:

· People talk to you and about you reverently: The timbre and style in which people engage in conversation with you will manifest their respect for you. It is an established fact that if a person is liked and valued, people to him or her more deferentially. All upbeat remarks attributed to you will manifest a positive impression that you have created in the minds of others.

· Others come to you for assistance & support: If you find that people look up to you for guidance and direction, it should be indicative of how valuable your views are and how conscientious you are perceived to be.

· Additional work is assigned to you: You can be convinced that your efforts are not going waste if you are assigned additional tasks because they manifest trust in you and also your capacity to shoulder added accountabilities. And if it happens that you are required to be the head of a project, it will go to prove that your headship attributes are acknowledged by the environment.

You stand the best chance of success at work if you can discern responses and reactions from people; they will serve to signpost to you whether you are on the correct course or not. The main thing however, is to persist with whatever you are supposed to do. And the bottom line of course is to take pleasure in your work.