Strive for a Better Bonus This Year!

If you are hit into sit­u­a­tions that your com­pany is not mak­ing money, and if you are stay­ing on with the com­pany, there is pretty noth­ing much you can do.  Every­one should be in the same shoes when the marker con­di­tions are bad.  How­ever, if you are not get­ting what you should be get­ting or believed to be get­ting even when times are good, it may be time to do some­thing about it.  But if you choose to stay with the com­pany and tar­get­ing for a good next year bonus, it maybe time you do things to keep you in the rec­om­men­da­tion list, which result in a higher chance for a bet­ter bonus!

1. Inter­act (and socialise) with your man­ager often – Take time to com­mu­ni­cate with your man­ager more often than you are doing now.  Socialise with him and inter­act at any chance you have.  The pur­pose is to move you into his “radar”.  With you in his radar most of the time, the higher chance that he will place you in the rec­om­men­da­tion list.
2. Find out what tasks that are impor­tant to him and help him achieve it – Take time to observe your boss.  Find out what are the main tasks that he feels it is impor­tant to help me go fur­ther.  By help­ing him achieve his impor­tant per­sonal inter­est and goals, you are sell­ing favour.  This good­will will be ben­e­fi­cial to you as he will con­sider you in the rec­om­men­da­tion list when the time comes!
3. Avoid direct con­fronta­tion with your man­agers – Although many advi­sors say that it is wise to dis­agree with your man­agers to prove your right.  But that is not the case all the time.  Your man­ager is always right!  If you do want to offend your man­ager, or want to have a direct con­fronta­tion with him, it is best to think twice of the con­se­quences of doing so.  If you really want to do it, do it grace­fully and in a gen­tle man­ner.  Do not dis­grace your man­agers.  Give them some room to breath too.  Con­front in a pos­i­tive and con­struc­tive man­ner so that both of you can ben­e­fit.  By offend­ing him neg­a­tively, he will imme­di­ately strike you off the rec­om­men­da­tion list and you can pray hard for the fol­low­ing year’s bonus.
4. Tar­get your effort to valu­able tasks – If you can, shift your­self into tasks that are valu­able.  80–20 rule applies here.  Do 20% of the work to yield 80% pro­duc­tiv­ity.  Valu­able in the eyes of your man­agers.  Remem­ber, man­agers do not see non-valuable or man­date work that most of the time nec­es­sary to do.  Valu­able tasks focus on valu­able deliv­er­ables.   Your man­agers can base on these valu­able deliv­er­ables for the rec­om­men­da­tion list.  There­fore, do not ignore this and focus on valu­able tasks!  If you are not

Remem­ber, you want to stay in your manager’s radar.  In order to achieve that, you will need to do valu­able tasks and impor­tant tasks that are impor­tant to your man­ager.  Be on the right radar, not on the wrong radar.  Do not offend or get into direct con­fronta­tion with your man­ager that will only end you up in the radar.  If all these are done, they should be suf­fi­cient for the man­ager to place you in the rec­om­men­da­tion list and of course a bet­ter chance for a boun­ti­ful bonus!

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