如何累積職場信譽

Hello everyone, I'm Terry. If you haven't seen my previous YouTube videos, I'm a software engineer working at a company in the U.S. In the past few years, I've worked for various companies of different sizes. There are companies that haven't even started writing product codes yet, and I've worked for a company that was finally acquired. I've worked for a company that's worth 100 times more than it was in the past two years, and I've also experienced companies starting from private to IPO.

Although the culture of these companies is different, the way of operation is also different, and the products they make are completely different, but these experiences have taught me some patterns, and let me observe some very outstanding people in the workplace, especially those who are often promoted to star or those who are considered to be the great gods in the team. There are some common points and methods that make them great gods, and these methods allow them to establish a lot of reputation in the workplace, and then the accumulated reputation makes them very easy to rise.

Or be assigned to bring some key projects And the benefits of accumulating these fortunes In addition to the growth of your career And no matter what happens Your manager will listen to you Your colleagues will listen to you Your opinions and thoughts will be valued by the team And others will come to you to ask questions and seek advice More importantly, you will grow faster than ordinary people

So today I'm going to share three of them with you. After working with DaShen, I can summarize them and let you accumulate the most effective methods in the workplace. And I believe that these are all impossible to learn at school. Although I am an engineer, I will also use the perspective of engineers and the perspective of technology in today's video. But I think what I said in today's video is not just applicable to engineers. I think any industry is actually applicable.

The first one is the easiest and easiest one. It's doing things outside of your job. When you apply for a new job, you'll see a long job description. What's your job? For a general engineer, your job might be to do projects and write code. Your manager or team lead will give you a ticket. You'll execute after you get the requirements. Then you'll enter the code for production. Change the next ticket and repeat.

Many people think that if they continue to do this, they will eventually gain a lot of credit after they get familiar with the code. But in fact, this is just what you should do. It does not really improve your credit in the workplace. You need to take the initiative to do something that your manager did not ask you to do.

For example, if you find a bug on your client's product, and this bug may not necessarily be related to your project, but you still go to solve this bug. Maybe this bug is the responsibility of other teams or other people, but after your PR is handed over, everyone will see your eyes differently. For your team, this is to tell them that you have the ability to maintain and help other teams do things. Then in the eyes of other teams, you not only actively find problems,

還願意直接幫他們提出解決的方法 做了這件事情之後 你就同時得到兩邊的信譽 那另外一個我覺得是非常容易開始做的 就是你可以看觀察你的團隊做事情的方式 然後看有沒有什麼事情是可以幫助提升團隊效率的 舉一個我自己曾經真的做過的事情 之前我在那家公司我的 team 上面每個禮拜都會有個固定的 meeting

Then we will have an agenda in this meeting. That is, the agenda is to discuss the things to be discussed in today's meeting, whether it is bug, improvement, or knowledge on some technical issues. Later, I found that when I was discussing these things, the final conclusion was that someone had to do some research or someone had to get some more data and then discuss the solution. But these things are often discussed in the meeting. After discussing, it may not be clear. No one continues to follow up.

然后大家都真的很忙,这个事情最后没有一个owner去follow up, 然后大家就慢慢把这个事情给遗忘了。 首先第一个你可以做的事情就是自愿成为那个事情的owner, 你可以去follow up大家需要做的事情, 不管是写ticket还是把工作分配出去, 你不一定要做所有的事情,但是你可以当这个事情的owner,

and all the things that need to be done were done and eventually solved. What I did at that time was that I proposed that we could run these meetings with the Asana tool. That is to say, we will turn every week's discussion into a task. Then every task has an owner and a subtask, which means that other tasks that need to be completed by this task. As long as this task is not solved, we will still see that this task is not solved when we have a meeting next week. This way, we can force our entire team to see why this problem has not been solved or discussed.

and won't cause a problem at the end. Because sometimes the things we discuss are not serious bugs, they might be long-term problems that need to be solved, but they won't be solved because they weren't followed up. This proposal and solution not only improved the efficiency of our team meetings, but also ensured that we followed through with everything we discussed. Doing something like this is a good example of improving your reputation in the team. The second is to share your knowledge and try to help others.

All the successful people I know will not help others. The simplest thing is to share your knowledge. Whether it's helping your colleagues write better code on code review, or spending more time on customers directly helping customers solve problems. Don't say that what you do with your customers is what PM should do. If you help someone today, that person will definitely remember you. This is all slowly accumulated in your career. Another important thing about knowledge sharing is that many people will think that if you own this code base today, or this feature is made by you,

and you know all the details and codes of this feature, that's enough. Because everyone will come to you when they encounter the feature problem. This way, you can become an expert in this area. You can get a lot of credit and credibility. In fact, this is not enough. If you want to accumulate your credit, you must know how to share this knowledge to anyone on your team. You have to think that your time is the cost of the company.

If everyone can only ask you questions, then you will need to spend a lot of time to answer many of the same questions. Even if one day you resign, you will give this team a lot of pressure because no one knows how to do the details of this thing. This is why knowledge sharing is important. Whether it is to write documentation, to share with your team when you are in the meeting, you will encounter difficulties and solutions in doing this feature.

You can even do it if there is a junior engineer asking you a question You can take him to debug together Let him understand your thoughts and learn how to solve your problems This can help him so that he can solve similar problems by himself in the future If you do this often Not only can you help your colleagues You can make them learn a lot of things They will be grateful to you This can also make your manager very grateful to you Because this can make his work easier It also proves that you have the strength to mentor other engineers You care about the overall success of the entire team Not just your own success

更重要的是你懂得為整個團隊去思考,而不是成為那個single point of failure 如果你在離職或是請假的時候,沒有人知道怎麼去解決 那第三個呢就是ownership 我不知道ownership有沒有更好的一個中文翻譯 但是我查了一下Google的字面翻譯,好像叫做所有權 但是它真實的意思就是你需要去own一個problem 不是等到別人來告訴你該做什麼事情 舉個例子,我們經常在做一個project的時候 可能需要其他的team來support我們,或是其他的同事來幫助我們

to complete some things. Generally, everyone is very busy. So, many times, after we finish what we should do, we are waiting for others to complete what they should do. Or for example, if your manager is not involved, you can't continue to do the next step. At this time, most people choose to wait. They will say that I have already completed what I should do.

Or pushing the responsibility to others or other teams Because they are too busy and have not completed what they should do Block you If you want to accumulate luck here You must take ownership You can take the initiative to follow up with your manager Say you need his signature Let him feel that you care about this matter You treat it as your own thing Go through this thing Then take this thing from the beginning to the end It's all in your control

开始养成这个 founder mentality 创始人的这个心态 就是当你遇到每一个问题的时候 你都会把它当成是 你自己的公司的角度 出发去解决面对这些问题 假如你今天是公司的老板 或是创始人 你会说我在等其他的team unblock我 在这之前呢 我已经把我所有该做的事情 都已经做完了 目前不管我的事 不是我在拖累警督 你会说这样的话吗

Of course not. You will definitely make sure that this thing will be done by yourself. Then, you will also ask other people to complete their work. And if they can't do it, you will do your best to help them. This is ownership. I think ownership is the most powerful among the three we talked about today. It is also the most directly reflect your value and improve your reputation. Think about it. If you are the boss of a company today, you will want your employees to be a bunch of people who only listen to you and do things.

還是有一兩個 有這種ownership概念的人 然後剩下來這種 Team-in-team執行的工作就交給AI 另外如果你想要了解 更多關於ownership的話 我會建議你去看 Gordon Ramsay的 Hotel Hell 地獄旅館 裡面基本上每一集都在講 Gordon怎麼去拯救一家快倒閉的旅館

The core problem that you can't get rid of is ownership. These are the three ways that I think are most effective in accumulating your luck in the workplace. Of course, these are all things that you need to keep practicing and keep doing. You can't just do it for a day or two and change everyone's opinion about you. But when you do it for a long time, it will become a habit. I didn't just make up these methods. It's all the ways and attitudes of the people I've seen in the past few years. I hope it helps you. If you think it helps you, please remember to give me a thumbs up.

Speaking of habits, if you have watched my previous videos, the standard outfit I wore in the videos was black t-shirt and underwear. So a Japanese manufacturer called Moonrakers sent me this new functional t-shirt that they recently launched. Let me try it on. I actually wore it for a few days. First, I want to talk about my real thoughts.

I personally like the low-key round neck design. I don't like the V-neck t-shirt. Because round neck t-shirts are suitable for any occasion. It's really comfortable to wear. Because the material is like a ventilation fiber. And it feels light to wear. In addition to exercise, I actually like to wear it when I sleep.

Because I used to buy this kind of cotton t-shirt I have about 20 or 30 pieces in my closet Basically all cotton But the biggest problem with cotton t-shirts is that it is difficult to sweat And the sweat will be absorbed on it Especially when I play basketball, it will be super uncomfortable So if you like to exercise and sweat a lot Then like me, I like this kind of simple material You can go and see Moonrakers, their Moontech Although today is their sponsored video But the experience and effect I have tried these days is really good

They also wrote on the official website that there are anti-smokiness, anti-UV, quick-drying, anti-stain, and these functional characteristics. If you live in a hot weather like Taiwan, this T-shirt should be very suitable for you. It can reduce sweat and smell and hide traces of sweat. They are now on the website of Zhezhe. They provide the opening fire of the bird for the audience in Taiwan.

I will put the link in the description box below. If you are interested, you can go and check it out yourself. Finally, I would like to welcome everyone to leave a comment below to tell me about the great gods you met in the market and how they successfully established their fortune. Or if you are a great god yourself, I would also welcome you to share your experience with your friends. See you next time.