Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Hello guys and welcome back to another episode of Clocking Off with Clouds.
I'm so excited to be here this week because I feel like it's been a while since I've filmed an episode even though for you guys it probably doesn't feel like that much but I was on holiday and for a few weeks I didn't even touch anything podcast related so yeah it feels like it's been a while for me since I've sat here in front of the camera and in front of the mic.
If you're clocking off with me today I hope you had a fantastic day or if you're just about to start your day then I hope you have a great one. I'm actually quite curious let me know in the comments below if you guys typically listen to this podcast in the morning or in the evening.
We're obviously called Clocking Off Clouds, but I'm conscious a lot of you guys might actually prefer to clock in with me and listen to the podcast before you go into work. So let me know in the comments. I'm a bit curious to know. This week, I want to go through some of the most important unspoken corporate rules, which unfortunately are not widely known.
As you guys know, I am a first generation corporate girlie and every single time I say that tag phrase, I feel like a broken record.
I know it must be annoying to hear, but it is true and it's a big part of my brand and it's a big reason why I make videos, but also the topics and themes that I touch upon always kind of go back to this point around me trying to democratize information and trying to democratize all the lessons that I've learned throughout my education and career journey.
today is exactly that unfortunately there is no such thing as a corporate rule book right how great would it be if on the first day of your first job you went in and they gave you a pamphlet of all the do's and do nots but unfortunately that is not how it works sure there are certain rule books that you can listen and read about there are some hr rules that come in like pdf files that you can listen to and read through
But there's a ton of unspoken rules that aren't written down that none of us would know unless someone would tell us or unless we had to go through these things ourselves and learn the hard way.
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Chapter 2: What unspoken corporate rules should I know for my first job?
So in a big corporation, your promotion conversations will likely involve your skip level.
and not only your skip level but also your skip levels manager and their manager because corporations have so many levels it's highly unlikely that your manager themselves is going to be responsible for your promotion decisions therefore how well your skip level knows you is going to be imperative to making sure that you can progress because the better the impression that they have of you the more likely they're going to want to put you up for promotion and the more likely they're going to want to approve that promotion
Another example of why having a relationship with your skip level is so important is because if you're having a bit of a conflict with your manager, if you guys are perhaps not in the best terms or if there's some kind of communication mismatch, you can address those issues with your manager's manager directly.
Not all of us are going to be lucky enough to have managers who we love and who also love us back and who we have a great working relationship with.
obviously that's the best case scenario but a lot of us have managers who we potentially don't have a great working relationship with and in those cases having a good relationship with your manager's manager is going to be so useful and i don't mean in a way that you should undermine your manager but at least you can report these communication issues or reports some sort of working mismatch with your skip level and then they're potentially able to either redirect you to another manager or facilitate that relationship so that you guys can work better together
if you do not have a relationship with your manager's manager, it's very hard for you to get out of that situation. And it's very hard for you to try to remediate things just between your manager and themselves, especially if it's already at a point where it's pretty, pretty bad.
Usually if it's like light and if it's like a small, small problems here and there, you guys can definitely sort it out yourselves. But if the problem is quite big and there's a lot of tension between your relationship with your manager, then oftentimes it's really important to have those conversations with your manager's manager. So
That's another situation where I'd say, always remember that your boss's boss is also your audience. Unspoken corporate rule number three, if you're not sure, then over-communicate. When I first joined the workforce, I assumed that the less I bother people, the better.
The less questions I ask, the less I'm like reminding them of stuff, the less I'm paying them for different things, the better because I don't want to be that person that is annoying. And I feel like that is a big part of my personality sometimes. It comes from like a...
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Chapter 3: How can I effectively vouch for myself at work?
and tell people what you want. I think I'm gonna end it there, but I definitely have a ton of other unspoken corporate rules.
I have a very, very, very long list, so we can make many, many more episodes on unspoken corporate rules that I wanna un-gatekeep, and I want you guys to know, and I want you guys to learn from me, or from other people in your lives, or from some guests that we can also get in the podcast. But let me know if you guys have any questions about any of the things that I mentioned today.
from like being vocal to over communicating to talking in outcomes whatever it is let me know in the comments and i will try my best to answer all of your questions it's very important to make sure that you guys are fully equipped to you know enter corporate with your full potential for this week's favorite i actually want to recommend a book and it's a book that i'm currently reading and it's called learn like a lobster
this one's personalized so it says learn like clouds which is very very cute um helen and sarah they actually sent this to me the team has quickly careers so thank you guys very much i've been going through this book and it is a great career book if you guys have been looking for one the inspiration for this book is that lobsters actually grow until the day they die they grow forever they grow their entire lifetimes and we should really take that approach as humans
Growth is not something that we do when we're children or when we're doing the beginning of the careers and then we stop doing it once we figure things out. Growth is continuous and it should be. It's also a very, very easy read if you're looking for something that isn't gonna hurt your brain. And it talks about some other things that I mentioned in today's video.
Like there's a whole section on feedback. There's a whole section on, how to learn when things go wrong, which is another unspoken rule I actually want to talk about in a future episode. So this is going to be my recommendation for the week. Learn like a lobster. Check it out. I will link it in my digital library, which is also in my bio on Instagram and on TikTok.
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So if you're listening and watching to the YouTube videos, then please subscribe. Also, I feel like a lot of you guys who are listening to the episodes on Spotify also aren't following Clocking Off of Clouds. So please do follow if you enjoy these episodes and listen in. It would mean a lot to me. And yes, I hope you guys enjoyed it. And let me know what other topics you guys would like.
Let me know if you guys have any questions and I'll see you guys in the next one. Bye-bye.
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