How a Medical Technologist Can Benefit from Office Politics – Part One
Office politics are usually considered to be a negative thing that most medical technologists try to avoid. However, when the office politics are played correctly by a medical technologist, they can really be helpful. Politics can help to advance a medical technologist’s team goals. Politics can also help advance a medical technologist’s career, without a medical technologist having to put integrity on the back burner.
Often, medical technologists associate politics with being manipulative in order to get ahead. Because of this belief, medical technologists sometimes want to stay as far away from politics as possible. But, this can lead to medical technologists being overlooked for advancement opportunities. It is best to have the best of both worlds as a medical technologist, which means being involved with politics while holding onto integrity.
One easy way to be involved in politics as a medical technologist is to help those in the lab with influence to accomplish their goals and the laboratories goals, so long as the goals are moral. This way, you will be recognized as valuable and will get more opportunities to advance because a person with influence in office politics sees you as valuable.
Office politics are all about learning how to influence people effectively and make advantageous relationships with those who can influence people to your benefit. There are ways that medical technologists can do this without being selfish.
Check back soon for part two of this blog.
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Source:
Glenn, Dave (October 6, 2008) Why Playing Office Politics is Essential. Advance for Medical Laboratory Professionals. Page 7.
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