Have you ever found yourself downplaying your own professional accomplishments? Feeling as though you’re tooting your own horn in moments when you’re really just sharing the experiences and big wins you’ve had throughout your career. It happens to so many women, especially in professional environments. You’ve had major wins, projects that have won serious acclaim and even climbed the corporate ladder at a rate that should be recognized by your peers – so how do you share all of that information? How can you make sure your boss and others are also seeing your impeccable track record without sounding as though you’re arrogant?Let’s take a look at how to recognize and celebrate your own accomplishments with style and grace.
How to Recognize & Celebrate Your Own Accomplishments
Keep track of everything you’re working on. You’re establishing a career here, right? And part of that means making sure even you understand everything you’ve accomplished. When you sit down at the end of the year to review your performance, rather than being stuck trying to remember the details, use your detailed record to show your boss exactly what you did and how you did it. Add some of these significant accomplishments to your resume and your LinkedIn profile to show potential clients and career opportunities just what you’re made of.
Establish a routine within your team for tracking and sharing noteworthy accomplishments and best practices. An accomplishment for your team is also an accomplishment for you – and being sure you’re all in the habit of tracking and recognition means you’re setting the tone and creating a culture where giving props is the name of the game. It’s also a great time to frame accomplishments as best practices and learning experiences for anyone else embarking on similar projects.
Establish your LinkedIn profile as a place where you really do have carte blanche when it comes to sharing your professional wins. You’re there to connect, right? And ultimately the networking that takes place on LinkedIn should lead you to more clients and more professional opportunities. So, here’s the place to really strut your stuff and let exactly what you’re made of shine through. List things like big projects, internal awards, big hires, wins and even the smaller stuff that shows off your ability to lead or be part of a bigger team and big picture goals.
Once you have that LinkedIn profile looking just the way you like it, with all of your accomplishments listed and explained – as a few folks – your boss, team members and colleagues to write you a recommendation to be displayed on your profile. Recommendations are the best way to reinforce and endorse the success of those achievements and the way you got there.
Have you tried brushing up your profile or tracking your career accomplishments throughout the year? Has it changed the way you look at your own successes?
