Career consultant Martin Wehrle: Underpaid and unnoticed: This is how people who are too nice are exploited in the job – and they can do that

Mr. Wehrle, how do you know that you are too nice at work? There are various clues. First: I give a lot but get little in return. So I do work for my colleagues, but nobody helps me. Second: I’m not taken seriously, say something in the meeting, but nobody listens to me. Then someone else says almost the same thing and gets praised for it. This shows that I am not being properly perceived.

What can you do about it? Too nice people often make themselves and their ideas small.

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