Linked – Why Celebrating Your Own Achievements Matters To Your Career Journey
I may have mentioned that my favorite career advice is taking responsibility for your upskilling. It’s excellent if your manager and the organization you work for support training and development, but even if they don’t, you do it independently.
It’s your career, not theirs.
The link below makes a similar point about celebrating your achievements.
Your boss might not recognize them, but that’s no reason not to celebrate them yourself.
I’d add that your boss not recognizing them isn’t a reason not to celebrate your teammate’s achievements either. Much like professional development, we don’t need to wait for an official response from management to be kind to ourselves. (I’m also not saying you shouldn’t find a boss who does celebrate your accomplishments!)
It’s interesting. I’m writing this from Vegas while attending the M365 Community Conference, and one of the things the Microsoft employees often talk about is how happy the “ding” of marking a Planner task complete makes them feel. It seems overboard and silly, but it’s a small celebration of an accomplishment that doesn’t require waiting for someone else to recognize it.
They celebrate it themselves.
Maybe they are on to something?
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