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Take Ownership
Assignments in school are unlike assignments in the workplace. In school, they come with clear instructions and explicit grading rubrics. In the workplace, your instructions might be your manager rambling in a meeting or forwarding you a long email thread and asking, “Can you follow up?” In school, deadlines are both written and spoken. In the workplace, deadlines are often unwritten and unspoken. If you aren’t careful, it can be easy to get overwhelmed. To ensure that you stay sane and become the most competent professional you can be, it helps to be deliberate.
Understand Your Assignments
Once you receive a task, one of the most important things you can do is ask yourself, Is there anything I’m unclear about? Despite ...
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