How to Promote your Accomplishments when Working for Someone Else

By | September 25, 2013

open mouthUnlike dental school, where assignments, expectations and evaluations are clear-cut, working as an employee offers fewer opportunities for you to get clear feedback on your performance. You’ll need to keep your boss informed about what a great job you are doing, but how to accomplish that without coming across as a blowhard?

Over at The Daily Muse blog, Allison Jones tackles that question in her post How to Brag at Work (Without Sounding Like a Jerk). Of course in order to promote your successes, you’ll need to keep track of them. Jones suggests monitoring your goals and achievements on a quarterly basis, maintaining a journal of accomplishments and one suggestion that was new to us:

Take a look at your job description. For each duty, say to yourself, “I know I am doing this well because…” and list a specific example that illustrates your success.

This got us wondering about those of you working as employee dentists — do you have a written job description? And for those of you answering no what method do you and your boss use to make sure you are in alignment with each other? Share your answers in the comments:

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *