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It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in—from information technology to fashion to publishing, making sure you get your priorities taken care of by your reports and coworkers is hardly ever an easy task.  How can IT recruiters, IT contractors, and IT managers all make sure they get the help they need on their most valued projects?  It starts by setting a standard of teamwork—in subtle and not-so-subtle ways.

When IT headhunters and IT consultants readily offer to help out, or respond to requests for help, from their coworkers, they set the stage for getting help in the future.  These favors don’t have to be huge.  Sometimes a small, unexpected favor will go pretty far just because it’s unexpected.

There’s a second, very important step to this process, though: Saying out loud after completing these favors, ‘No problem, I’m sure you’d do the same for me.’  The sentence will really drive home the message of teamwork.  Coupled with the action of doing that favor for somebody, this step will set the stage to make it easy to ask for future favors from coworkers and reports.