The Office Jungle. Judi James
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Название: The Office Jungle
Автор: Judi James
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: О бизнесе популярно
isbn: 9780007460137
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There are several useful steps you can take to avoid being taken for granted:
ACTION PLAN:
1 Do something mildly eccentric or unusual:
Take up a new sport or hobby that is different.
Read something daring. If you read lightweight try heavyweight and vice versa. Buy something new. Wear a new colour. Change your hairstyle, or the colour of your hair. See every new film the first week it comes out, and go to fringe theatre. If you like classics buy Oasis and vice versa. Do anything different – but – when you mention these things or walk in wearing new clothes it’s important your colleagues think it was just a ‘so what?’ sort of thing you felt like doing, and not that it’s a life-changing exercise you’re doing in a desperate attempt to be interesting.
2 Ask questions:
For some reason people seem to like this. If not, at least it confuses them momentarily and makes them think. Ask colleagues, ‘Why do you do that?’ ‘Why do you do it like that?’ ‘What makes you think that?’ or ‘Why did you say that?’ These phrases are great because they sound controversial without being so. They make you sound like the deep thinker and philosopher who has options in mind, even if you won’t discuss them. Or they make the person talking over-explain themselves and sound like a prat.
3 Change a detail:
There’s no need to change your overall appearance, just work on a few of the finer details, such as colour, texture, cut or pattern. Parting your hair differently can be just as dramatic as a new cut. If you have long flowing hair wear it up for a while. If you have short back and sides try lengthening the sideburns. Shave off a beard or moustache. If you wear dull-looking suits try red socks or tights. Instead of the clichéd flashy tie try a pocket hankie or cufflinks or a buttonhole instead. If your desk is a barren wasteground tidy it up and buy some flowers.
Change is good for the soul, as well as beneficial to your impact at work. Your brain needs constant stimulation. For your own well-being never get caught in a rut. The worst type of stereotyping is the sort you do to yourself.
Planning objectives isn’t an inflexible pastime. You don’t have to carve your goals in great tablets of stone – but you can write them down in pencil and make improvements and alterations as you go along.
One of the great truths of life is that if you don’t know where you’re going, you sure as hell won’t get there.
Blueprints
Make a list of three types of objectives:
• Short-Term Career
• Long-Term Career
• Life
Short-Term Career
This objective is self-explanatory. What direction do you see your job going in? What are your goals within your company? How do you want to be perceived and how ambitious are you?
Long-Term Career
This is harder to visualize. Do you see yourself running the company you work for one day? Or are you happy enough in the position you hold? Do you want to start your own business? Do your long-term plans include a complete change of path? Do you have something more scintillating in mind? Find out what you consider to be dreams and what you plan to turn into reality. Then set time-scales and action plans.
Life
This list should include ideas on marriage, family, housing and well-being. Do you intend staying in this country or moving abroad? Do you want to be rich – if so, how rich? Did you plan on running off to a commune one day and living off the land? Are there any hobbies you always wanted to take up? Do you aim to get fit? Give up smoking? Learn to speak Cantonese?
How to Be Happy
People see happiness as a basic right. Parents are fond of telling their kids: ‘All I want is for you to be happy.’ We tell ourselves: ‘I just want to be happy.’ Yet true happiness is a difficult thing to achieve, and words like ‘just’ and ‘all’ don’t make it any easier.
What makes you happy? The trouble is we don’t know. We think we have a good idea: ‘I would be happy if I could win money … change jobs … sell my house … get married … get divorced … get drunk …’ The list is endless. Yet a change in circumstance doesn’t always guarantee a change in mood. Take the Office Whinger, for instance. Can you think that anything anyone could do would make them happy on a long-term basis? If they won the pools they’d be complaining that one holiday seems very much like another after a while.
Most of us stumble through our working lives without ever understanding our own pecking order of requirements to be happy. Again, we have been too busy listening to other people tell us what we want. Money, status, being your own boss – these will all make some people happy but there’s many others they won’t suit.
The Buzz
You need to understand what gives you the biggest buzz during the working day. Often the results are surprising. We are all individuals when it comes to The Buzz.
Printed below is a list of some of the things that will give job satisfaction. Tick the ten that would give you the biggest buzz and then try and list them in order. Be honest with yourself and visualize each event happening to study your true feelings.
1 Clearing your desk of work.
2 Enjoying the company of colleagues.
3 The social life of work – drinks at the pub, outings, team sports, etc.
4 Making a product.
5 Selling a product.
6 Outdoing your colleagues.
7 Hearing the office gossip.
8 Getting paid.
9 Completing a task as a team.
10 Making a customer happy.
11 Being thanked by a customer in person.
12 Receiving a written note, a tip or a small gift from a customer.
13 Winning praise from your boss.
14 Hearing the company as a whole is doing СКАЧАТЬ