Here are the next two of the ten Rules of Work by Richard Templar. We already serialised the first six.

RULE SEVEN – ACT ONE STEP AHEAD

• Dress One Step Ahead

  You may choose what job you want, you must also choose to dress like that job demands. Then you will get or retain that job.

• Talk One Step Ahead

  Be focused and dynamic, keep personal details to yourself. Bosses and bosses-in-waiting don’t chatter or gossip about their social lives.

• Act One Step Ahead

  Carrying out the rules requires strength of character, willpower, determination, honesty, courage, experience, great talent, dedication,      drive, nerve and charisma.

• Think One Step Ahead

               You will start to think like a boss and less like a worker.

• Address Corporate Issues and Problems

  If the company suggests a new procedure, immediately think how it affects your customers and not you first.

• Talk of ‘We’ Rather than ‘I’

  If you go to meetings it is so much more grown up (and ‘cool’) to talk of We instead of I.

• Walk the Talk

               You’ve got to become whoever and whatever it is you aspire to be.

• Spend More Time with Senior Staff.

• Get People to Assume You Have Already Made the Step

  Make people aware that you know the job; are experienced; are serious; are reliable and responsible; are trustworthy.

• Prepare for the Step After Next.

RULE EIGHT - CULTIVATE DIPLOMACY

• Ask Questions More in Times of Conflict.

• Don’t Take Sides

  Stay on the fence whatever you do, because if you don’t, then one side will blame you as well as the person they were originally arguing    with.

• Know When to Keep Your Opinion to Yourself

                The real reason for expressing an opinion is because you have been asked to.

• Be Conciliatory.

• Be Adept at Holding Your Temper.

• Never Get Personal

  Getting personal can ultimately get you sacked at worst and lose you respect and friends at best.

• Know How to Handle Other People’s Anger

  Just leave. That’s it. Say nothing, just walk out. Do this often enough and they get the message.

• Stand Your Ground

  Adopt the broken record technique: “I don’t appreciate being treated like this.” Say this time without end, but don’t lose your temper or they   may feel they have ‘won’.

• Be Objective

                However, before you react, think of the long-term plan.

• Put Things in Perspective

  You have to learn to switch off, relax, not take it so seriously, enjoy it more, put things into perspective.

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