From the course: Getting Ahead: How to Advocate for Your Promotion
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Invisible work
From the course: Getting Ahead: How to Advocate for Your Promotion
Invisible work
- Have you ever been asked to be a team player? Sometimes managers use the words "team player" to ask employees to take temporary tasks. After a few months, they become permanent tasks that you dislike. Invisible work can cost your career development. In this lesson, I'll share with you about invisible work and how that can affect your career. You may feel like you perform invisible work when your operational tasks take most of your time without tangible results. You would like to volunteer for new projects, but spend most of your time performing tasks no one sees. You want to develop your skills, but lack the time and energy to dedicate to projects that could bring significant results. Visible tasks and projects lead to accomplishments, and you can add them to your performance review. For example, you are part of a team of three people implementing a new system. It's not part of your job description, but you want to develop your career and learn that skill. That's a visible task that…
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