Career tips

Are you afraid of advancing in your career, not sure if you can hack being a manager, not ready for more responsibilities? Marjorie Brody, author of “Career Magic: A Women’s Guide to Reward & Recognition,” offers these thoughts for those who have fear of career heights:

1. What’s the worst that can happen?

2. What is the likelihood of that happening?

3. If that happens, then what? It might not be as bad as you think.

4. Look back to the times you’ve been successful. What made you successful, and how often did you really fail?

5. Make sure you’ll have mentors, colleagues who can help you when you take on a new position.

6. Keep in mind that if your managers are thinking of promoting you they must think you have something to offer.

7. And remember what Thomas A. Edison said: “If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.”
—Eve Tahmincioglu