The art of self preservation of people in the workplace

Mondo Workplace Updated on 2024-02-25

The workplace is the rivers and lakes, although there is no sword and sword here, but it is also full of blood and rain. We may not be able to master peerless martial arts, but learning how to protect ourselves in the workplace is a skill that every migrant worker must master.

Li Hua is a senior project manager, and the newly recruited Xiao Wang often asks him for advice. Li Hua only taught him to see the tricks and dismantle the tricks, solve the underlying logic of solving the problem and the complex background of the company's personnel, and he never mentioned a word. Therefore, Xiao Wang can only be an honest big soldier, and he can't pose any threat.

In many cases, it is still necessary to keep a hand everywhere in the workplace and ensure that you are irreplaceable as much as possible. Unless you already have a higher goal.

Zhang Min is the company's financial director, once chatted happily with her companion little sister, the other party praised her ability, and asked her how much the year-end bonus was, she blurted out, and the people around looked at each other. She realized it the next second, but it was too late, she had already committed a taboo in the workplace, especially since she was still a financial officer.

In the office, the brain always goes before the mouth. The moment you step into the office, you should always remind yourself that this is a place of right and wrong, and don't get carried away.

Zhao Gang is a software development engineer whose team was asked to adopt some kind of unconventional data exchange method in a project to shorten the development cycle. While this looked like it might lead to better business performance, Zhao Gang firmly refused. He explained to his superiors the unethicality and potential risks of this approach, which ultimately led the team to choose a more compliant option. At the end of the year, his project was selected for review, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

In the workplace, you must firmly guard your boundaries, shortcuts and ** are often accompanied by risks, if you are not the kind of talent who is exquisite, it is recommended not to dance on the cliff.

When Chen Lu first entered the workplace, she found that the colleagues around her were very good, and she seemed quite ordinary, so her performance was mediocre. In order to achieve performance, the little partner who joined her added a lot of challenging indicators to the performance goals, and was in a hurry, and even did not understand the position of the boss, and of course fell badly. And she studied silently, slowly familiarized herself with the company's processes and personnel preferences, and was usually not conspicuous, and was the least outstanding one in the eyes of the boss. Until a project meeting, she put forward a series of insightful plans, which hit the boss's cool points, and played an important role in the project, but got the opportunity to be promoted.

Whether it is dormant or obscure, it is a kind of preparedness to take action, and when you first enter the workplace, it is wise to observe more and then act.

Wang Lei achieved great success in an important project that brought huge profits to the company. But there are many people in the company who are jealous and disdainful of this. Wang Lei did not go-for-tat, but on occasions big and small, he attributed the credit to his superiors and focused on the next project. This has won him a lot of positive word-of-mouth, and the leaders are also supporting him behind the scenes.

In fact, this is a very wise approach, on the one hand, to keep attention on their main business projects, on the other hand, not to be arrogant, to win the favor of leaders. In this way, confession is more effective than confrontation.

As a part-time worker, it is not easy to protect yourself in a complex workplace environment. But as long as we master the right methods and strategies and put them into practice, we can move forward steadily and achieve our career goals.

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