3. Survival Tips For Offices
Appearance:
• A vitally important aspect of office life is how you come across to management
and colleagues. If you want the kudos of being a hard worker, without all the
bothersome hard work, then you need to look the part:
• Always look busy.
• Keep your desk covered in piles of paperwork.
• Have loads of programme windows open on your computer.
• Often have your voicemail box be full. Fill it with messages yourself if
necessary.
• Wherever you go in office, take files with you.
4. Survival Tips For Offices
Appearance:
• Instead of actually working late, just leave your monitor on and leave a cardigan
on the back of your office chair to make it look like you are still at the office
when actually you're already at home. You could even leave a half empty cup of
tea/coffee on occasion (or other crappy biscuit, you wouldn't want to waste a
good one).
• Help out workmates with little jobs. It makes you look helpful, and can make
you popular, while not causing too much stress, and it makes life easier for them.
And of course it makes others more likely to help you out when you're
overloaded or don't know how to do something.
5. Survival Tips For Offices
• Office Etiquettes
Cell phone Etiquette:
If you bring your cell phone to work, here are some rules of etiquette you should follow
to make sure you don't offend your co-workers and your boss.
E-Mail Etiquettes:
Your E-Mail for office must be used to communicate with your boss, colleagues,
clients, or prospective employers.
6. Survival Tips For Offices
• Personal Issues At Work
Personal issue and Work:
Personal issues including family problems, life changing situations, emotional
difficulties and illness can impact your job and ultimately your ability to advance your
career. Try as you might to keep your private life separate from your work life.
Shyness:
Shyness with your colleagues and Boss can have a profoundly negative
effect on your career. Be a Bold.
7. Survival Tips For Offices
Stand Out in Staff Meeting:
To stand out at a staff meeting, defend the employees of another department when they
are being blamed for the failure of a corporate project as part of an effort to shift blame
away from your own department.
Thanks those who Helped you:
Manners do matter, Don’t forget to thanks those colleagues who have made the efforts
to help you in every difficulty.
8. Survival Tips For Offices
Be Patient:
Today’s graduates are used to the fast pace of technology and in a way, this has built up
a low tolerance for being willing to wait.
Tread lightly and carefully:
Don’t need to fear your co-workers, but you should know that the office political
environment will force you to leave this field for the other guys.
9. Survival Tips For Offices
Write Your Way On The Top:
Most job todays require writing. Write better and you will move ahead in
your career quicker.
4 Ingredients Of Good Writing:
i. Focus
ii. Usefulness
iii. Clarity
iv. Authenticity
10. Survival Tips For Offices
Dirty Dishes in Offices:
After eating Don’t leave your dirty dishes in the office sink. Here you are now on your
on. You cannot expect anyone to pick up your slacks.
Small Talk Tips:
Tips on what to say, when you need to be said:
i. Make your first move with your second move already planned.
ii. The ideal thing is to get the other person talking.
iii. Be a little Bold.
11. Survival Tips For Offices
Internet Down:
Nothing is more irritating than sitting at work waiting for technical problem to be
Remedied. If it takes a few minutes to reset then you must walk around the office and say
“Hello” to the Coworkers you normally E-Mail.
Perform to your Best Capacity:
Even if it seems that your effort go unnoticed. You should not lose your heart or degrade
yourself because “Good vibes are never overlooked in the universe”. In other Words:
“If the Reward doesn’t come at work, it will show up somewhere else”
12. Survival Tips For Offices
Stay Alert in Offices:
Be aware of the Bigger picture at work: the how and why of what you are doing.
But also: be aware of changes in the atmosphere. You can only invest so much of
your self in an undertaking, but you’ve tried and tried and tried, and your feelings
of hopelessness increase instead of decrease , it might be time to consider a
change of environment. Change makes you stronger and even more alert.