{"id":1039,"date":"2010-01-05T15:22:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T19:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.officepolitics.com\/advice\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2010-01-05T15:22:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T19:22:18","slug":"7-tips-make-office-politics-work-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.officepolitics.com\/advice\/7-tips-make-office-politics-work-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Tips Make Office Politics Work For You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xR6clY8WU1c&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xR6clY8WU1c&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Office Politics Getting You Down?<\/strong> Author and leadership coach <a title=\"BusinessSuccessCoach.net\" href=\"http:\/\/www.BusinessSuccessCoach.net\" target=\"_blank\">John McKee<\/a><strong> <\/strong>appeared on <strong>ABC News<\/strong> recently to share seven smart common-sense tips to make office politics work for you&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>#1. Over communicate your plans<br \/>\n#2. Ask open-ended questions<br \/>\n#3. Look for feedback from coworkers<br \/>\n#4. Get buy-in<br \/>\n#5. Give and take credit where it&#8217;s due<br \/>\n#6. Your style counts<br \/>\n#7. Seek agreement on all sides<\/p>\n<p>For more information on John M McKee, author of \u201cCareer Wisdom &#8211; 101 Proven Strategies to Ensure Career Success\u201d and \u201c21 Ways Women in Management Shoot Themselves in the Foot,\u201d please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesssuccesscoach.net\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Business Success Coach.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"320\" height=\"265\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xR6clY8WU1c&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xR6clY8WU1c&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"320\" height=\"265\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>Office Politics Getting You Down?<\/strong> Author and leadership coach <a title=\"BusinessSuccessCoach.net\" href=\"http:\/\/www.BusinessSuccessCoach.net\" target=\"_blank\">John M McKee<\/a><strong> <\/strong>appears on <strong>ABC News<\/strong> recently to discuss how to make them work for you. John has seven smart common-sense tips&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[368],"tags":[539,537,442,536,538,665],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiring-thoughts-office-politics","tag-business-success-coach","tag-career-coach","tag-executive-coach","tag-john-m-mckee","tag-leadership-coach","tag-office-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.officepolitics.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.officepolitics.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.officepolitics.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.officepolitics.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.officepolitics.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.officepolitics.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045,"href":"https:\/\/www.officepolitics.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions\/1045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.officepolitics.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.officepolitics.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.officepolitics.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}