Your Attitude Is Showing: A Primer of Human Relations, Tenth Edition

Reducing Plateau Periods

Understanding plateau periods may help an ambitious employee do a better job of coping, but aren’t there ways to shorten them? Should you be faced with a plateau period in the future, ask yourself these questions:

• Am I using my present role to improve my future, whether or not I stay with the organization?

  Some people have the capacity to turn boring jobs into self-improvement periods. A good example is the ambitious supervisor of a shipping operation who wants to know more about data processing. On company time, she (or he) might start investigating the possibilities for her own department, thereby benefiting both her department and herself.

• Am I taking advantage of all the training opportunities available to me now? ...