Essential Skills: Attendance & Punctuality

The article offers tips on how to address tardiness problem in which recommendations include managing the time when readying oneself for work and meeting, setting the alarm across the room in order to get out of bed to turn it off, and planning to arrive early.

The article identifies bad habits of employees, their consequences, and ways to change them. Annoyances that draw the biggest complaints include cliques among co-workers, coming late to work, bad hygiene, loud eating, and talking to co-workers over cubicle walls. The author notes that bad habits hurt relationships and damage productivity. The author suggests to devise alternatives to the bad habits one wants to replace.

The article offers tips from writer Sam Becker of CheatSheet on how to earn respect in the workplace. Among the suggestions include showing up early, maintaining an eye contact and posture, and speaking with authority. Also discusses the use of silence during presentation as an advantage and lifting others up.

The article discusses some of the things that generally run through the minds of supervisors as they evaluate a new employee's success in the first 90 days. Some of the tips include the attitude and job expectations required from the employee, the need to clarify the expected results, the most important parts of one's assignments and expected performance standards, and the ability to adapt to the team and co-workers.

The article offers tips to overcome the tardiness at work including timing the routine, wearing a watch, aim to arrive early and think of impact of tardiness on reputation and relationship with boss and co-workers, and on the job.

The article discusses the lack of punctuality and the keys to making a change. Many people make themselves late, whether once or repeatedly, when heading to a job or to meet friends, because they feel apprehensive or stressed. The author suggests devoting two extra hours to a work the day or evening before. People who use lateness to signify they are special or more powerful than those they keep waiting may not plan to show up late. One way people may gauge the affection of others is to test whether they will sacrifice their time.