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  1. Know Your Manager

    Today’s challenge is actually about knowing who and what matters to your success on the role. There are lots of things that determine how successful you can be at your role and how fast that success can happen.

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  2. Know Your Team Members

    Except you are a one-man squad or solopreneur, you are likely to be working in a team. It does not matter if your team is very big or small. What matters most, and will probably affect how well you are successful, is getting to know every member of the team.

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  3. Know Your Tools

    A good craftsman is as good as his tools. Depending on where you are coming from, you may need to use some new tools in your new role. Today is time to get familiar with most of the tools you will be using as you do your work. If there are new tools on the deck, then you will probably need to spend time learning about them.

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  4. Know Your Products and Services

    Nothing is worse than having zero knowledge about the company’s product and services. And the earlier you make intentional effort to learn about the company’s product and services, the better.

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  5. Meet With More People

    “No man is an island”. I am sure you must have heard that, and we discussed why your team members are important to you during our Day 2 of the 30 Day Work Challenge.

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  6. Set Smart Goals

    Today’s challenge is about setting smart goals for you. A smart goal as you know is specific, measurable, actionable, achievable and realistic. The way to get realistic and achievable goals is to make them actionable.

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  7. Plan Activities for Next Week

    Yesterday, you took out time to set some goals for yourself. But, do you know there is a better way to set goals and achieve better results? This method has been used by big companies such as Google, Facebook, Amazon and tons of others.

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  8. Boost Productivity By Drinking More Water

    Yesterday, you took out time to set some goals for yourself. But, do you know there is a better way to set goals and achieve better results? This method has been used by big companies such as Google, Facebook, Amazon and tons of others.

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  9. Accept Responsibility

    So ready for today’s challenge? How do you feel when you get praised for doing something well? How do you feel when it is the other way round?

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  10. Be A Problem Solver

    Well, you could do a lot of things but you could actually do one thing. Today, we are suggesting you take time to identify and find out what problems the company is grabbing with. What problems or challenges are you seeing in your department, in your team?

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  11. Be Focused

    Staying focused is difficult. There are tons of things you can work on and if you are like everyone, we are always trying to optimize for 10 or more metrics at the same time. But trying to work on 20 things at a time won’t cut it.

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  12. Take Scheduled Breaks

    Do you know the secret to getting more done at work? If you say working your butt all day long, 8 hours straight, then you might be right. However, that will not get you far. What it will do is get you burnt out so quickly sometimes you wish you had not taken up the work.

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  13. Use the Pomodoro technique to achieve more

    We have been talking about how to be more productive and achieve more. We have shared some simple tricks you can use such as drinking more water, taking scheduled breaks and walking around or doing some simple form of exercise while at work.

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  14. Exercise

    Feeding the mind is great but without a healthy body, you will quickly burn out. There are three components to a balanced life. The spiritual component, the mental component and the physical component.

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  15. Eat an apple a day

    Yesterday, we spoke on how important it is to start exercising as a way to live a healthy life. There are tons of diseases you can avoid by simply exercising. Health issues like high BP and a lot more can be avoided if you simply choose to live a healthy life.

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  16. Reassess your goals

    But what I want you to do today is something quite different. With all the knowledge you have gathered within the last 15 days, it is time to start to reassess your goals. Nothing can be worse than finding out at the end of this 30 Day that you are working towards the wrong set of goals.

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  17. Be Proactive

    There are two sets of people; those who allow stuff happen to them and react to issues and event and those who can see ahead and are proactive. Which one do you think you are?

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  18. Help out people in the team

    We both have strongly agreed that one of the most indispensable assets you have at work are your colleagues. After all, we spend the majority of our time in the office and with them either working on the same project or different projects while still striving to achieve the same business objective.

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  19. Learn to say No

    Lending a helping hand is good. It goes a long way to show that you understand teamwork and you are a reliable and dependable partner. But this can go quickly south if you are someone who is always saying yes to a lot of things.

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  20. Take a colleague for a lunch break

    Do you know that you can learn more about someone in 5 mins in an unofficial setting than you can learn in 5 weeks in a formal setting?

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  21. Productivity Apps

    On our day 13, we spoke about the Pomodoro technique. The Pomodoro technique is a framework that helps you work better and faster. And the principle is very simple.

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  22. Ship Fast, Fix Later

    Do you know how the best companies have grown in such a short time? I am talking about companies such as Google, Facebook, Instagram, USA military and a host of others?

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  23. Ignore Social Media

    How many times do you check your social media feeds by day? If you are like most people, they check their social media accounts like almost every minute. Some even check first thing in the morning.

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  24. Assess Your Goals

    You have learnt how to set smart goals and what they are. We encourage you to also look at your goals during our lesson 16 but again it is important to stress that setting goals is not the main aim.

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  25. Speak Positively

    Do you know what you say have an effect on you and on the team generally? The use of words and their context is important and plays a huge role in how much you can motivate your team or colleagues.

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  26. Find A Mentor

    There are two ways to get ahead in life. You can either learn from your own experience or rather learn from the experiences of others and avoid making the mistakes they made.

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  27. Familiarize yourself with the company culture

    Company culture is defined as the personality of a company. It defines the environment in which employees work and it includes a lot of variety of elements, including work environment, company mission, values, ethics, expectations, and goals.

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  28. Organize your workspace

    Your workspace or office desk is crucial to how productive you can be. If you want to have a good time at work, you need to start paying attention to how your desk is arranged and even experiment with the layout.

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  29. Prepare your report

    We are very close to the end of our 30 Day Work Challenge and I must say the journey has been interesting. I am sure you have learnt a lot and I have also learned a lot sharing my tips with you.

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  30. Plan for Growth

    I am sure we have impacted you in one way or the other, and there are tons of key takeaways that you have learned during the past 30 days. So I want to hear from you. Is there any way you think we can improve this 30 Day Work Challenge or is there anything you want us to talk about, I will love to hear from you.

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