3. When Nothing Is Changing: Start Your Hunt
You’ve done everything you can think of. You’ve spoken up and advocated for your ideas in team meetings. You’ve sat down with your boss (a couple of times, actually) to explain to her/him that you feel like your contributions aren’t being given equal weight.
And yet, absolutely nothing is improving. You still feel just as ignored and unheard.
Now what? Well, my friend, here’s the brutal truth: It’s probably time for you to start looking for a workplace where both you and your ideas are valued. You deserve that much.
Does that mean you’re entitled to a team in which every single one of your suggestions is met with applause and then implemented immediately? Absolutely not—every idea you have won’t be a good one. However, you are justified in expecting a certain amount of respect and acknowledgement.
So, if you truly do feel like you’ll continue to go unnoticed in the office—despite your best efforts to change that—it could be a sign of a larger problem within the organization, as opposed to something to do with you specifically.
I know firsthand how discouraging it can be to feel like absolutely nobody listens to what you have to say in the office. And, it’s a tricky situation to navigate.
Fortunately, there are a few things you can do to make it a little less easy to ignore you. Give these suggestions a go, and you’ll hopefully feel supported—rather than steamrolled.
