Supervisor's Survival Kit: Your First Step into Management, Ninth Edition

MAKING YOURSELF VISIBLE

Make yourself visible. To make yourself visible, you must be seen and talked about by management people above you. You must be noticed, which you can accomplish in a number of ways.

• Speaking up (sometimes critically) in staff meetings

• Turning in written suggestions through channels

• Making appointments with upper management people to ask questions but always going through channels

• Being seen around the facility

• Leading a cross-functional team

• Participating in organizational events or recreational activities

• Taking advantage of lunch to meet other people

Of course, the best way to be visible is to do a quality job and get recognition from doing it. In fact, it may be more important to be visible silently rather than physically ...