Are You Likeable Enough to Succeed?

Success is putting your mind to an ambition and achieving that aim, whether it is to be Prime minister, a good parent, or to score a goal in your Sunday league game.

For most people to be happy they need to work in a pleasant friendly environment get on well with colleagues, to be intellectually stimulated, challenged and rewarded. You should not accept a job with a company if you think that it cannot offer you these things. For your part, you have to have the right stuff, in terms of both skills and personality, these will help you find a job in the first place and will set you in good stead throughout your career regardless of the industry sector.



Making allies in the workplace

It pays to have friends at your place of work, not only can they make tea for you, but if you get on well with your colleagues then the office will have a more pleasant atmosphere and you will not dread coming into work every morning.

We spend a lot of time with our work colleagues, if you work 9-5, 5 days of the week then in the course of a lifetime you probably spend a lot more time with them than you do your loved one. So take the time to be friendly, it helps if you are a positive, outgoing, cheerful, and a likeable person. Having a reputation as the office social outcast will get you nowhere. Arguing everyday will only make you and everyone else unhappy.

To, make it to the top you have to be good with people. Your fellow colleagues will also have promotional aspirations, they could be useful contacts in years to come.


Look out for number one while being a team player

Do not be single-mindedly ambitious, the best personnel are team players. However it does no harm to have a goal and to go out of your way to achieve it. Ambition is a healthy quality and one that is picked up upon from the interview onwards, you have to be proactive in making your wants come true.

We all need self-belief, without it we wouldn't get out of bed in the morning. You need to believe that you are capable of being successful, and achieving your ambitions. When you believe it you can set about convincing other people of what you are capable of.

Everyone has the potential to succeed you just need a target to aim for. Making a rough career plan will help you achieve this, ask yourself where you want to be in the five or ten years time. Define your ambition and then to go out and make it happen.