Daily Habits for the Office that will Improve your Career

• Always respond to co-workers immediately
• send your co-workers a birthday e-mail if you know its their birthday
• give your boss and the co-workers you directly work with a little something for their birthday (like a fancy cupcake or their favorite Starbucks,who doesn’t like cupcakes?!?)
• respond to e-mails and phone calls ASAP
• keep your desk and office neat and clean
• keep a to-do list
• keep a planner with appointments, meetings, and due dates
• always be punctual (or even better early) for work and appointments
• always look clean, up kept and professional
• do not gossip or spend too much time chit chatting
• do not be seen not working or being on your phone
• show a friendly and positive attitude to others
• do not talk too much about your personal life and problems- keep work at work and your personal life at home
• go above and beyond
• always take the opportunity to improve, and learn
• listen to NPR while working (you’ll appear up to date on current affairs and educated as hell)
• always look interested- take notes all the time (in meetings, how to do things so you don’t have to ask twice, and whatever you can’t remember)