How Do You Clean Up Workplace Emotional Viruses?

Negative speech is gossip in the workplace, and they will continue to strengthen the idea that people are entitled to autonomy. When we develop the "results only working environment" (ROWE), we find that negative speech is the most stubborn and most influential obstacle to a highly efficient, creative and satisfying workplace. Negative remarks can be mean gossip or friendly jokes. We will spread negative speech for many reasons (both nouns and verbs), but these words will eventually or directly lead to shame on colleagues who do not work in a regular way.

Negative speech is a powerful force to maintain the status quo, which means that only nine to five hours in the office can be called work. Negative remarks are based on the following formula:

Result = time + entity exists

This formula is actually the product of the industrial economic era. In the era of industrial economy, individuals are treated as factory parts that can be replaced. In the era of creative economy, the new formula should be: result = result. Full stop.

It is unbelievable that this idea is still a revolutionary idea. Leaders may say that they want everyone in the company to be imaginative, energetic and passionate, but they rarely remove these harmful negative remarks. Negative comments are constantly reinforcing the idea that people who do not work in regular ways either fail to fulfill their duties or make use of loopholes in the system. In the working environment that only asks for results, every employee has the same autonomy and responsibility. Do your job as an adult. It's that simple.

Dusty before Workplace May be slowly disappearing, but even for the best intentions, we may also create some harmful trends, which results in the survival of plant thinking. How to eliminate these harmful trends? Here are three suggestions.

　　 1. be careful. Negative remarks

First of all, you will hear some obvious remarks. You will hear someone. Colleague There seems to be no malicious remarks ("it's very nice of you to join us today." You think it's negative. Then, you think you have found the so-called "negative remarks behind you" (that is, making negative remarks behind someone). Such negative remarks about a colleague appeared when he was absent.

Colleague a: "how did Steve get a promotion? He didn't even come to the company."

Colleague B: "I know, even if he comes, he is always late and has a long lunch."

You: "he spends a lot of time on lunch every Tuesday. After that, he has to jog, right? He laughs to death."

The more you listen to negative comments, you will find that subtle versions are not only around you, but you are becoming the source of these remarks.

　　 2. bravely pointed out

When you hear something harmful in the conversation, politely point out the problem to those who say these things. Don't let anyone or you feel guilty or judged by outdated standards. We live in a magical era. Many people (maybe one day) can do their job well. Our lives depend on the results we achieve, not the length of time we spend in the office. Stand up, resist the system, not become an accomplice of the system. An accountant who works late into the night in order to catch up with time should not be humiliated by his colleagues because he was late for work. In order to watch his daughter's ballet performance, the mother who left the office at 3 p.m. should not be questioned by her neighbor's desk about why she left in advance.

When you hear such negative remarks, a simple way to change the direction of conversation is to say, "do you need anything from me?" for example, if someone sees you leave at 2 o'clock p.m. and say, "2 o'clock, where are you going so early?" Or, if a colleague says to you, "did you see it? Alison came to work at 10 o'clock today." You can answer: "do you need her to do anything for you?" to avoid negative remarks behind. The topic shifts to more important matters.

　　 3. don't step on others to elevate yourself.

The traditional "Lai ban" people often use negative remarks to make themselves seem to work hard, are important employees, but do not consider their actual performance at all. Don't let colleagues down the road for 15 minutes or go to work like you do. Focus on the results. If you need to make yourself look better, you should try to finish your work and think more about your customers, companies and how to make progress.

It is free to work in teams without negative opinions. Guilt disappeared. Work efficiency has been greatly improved.

No one is unwilling to work in an environment where negative remarks are eliminated - eradicating such remarks is good for any workplace. People can also extricate themselves from outdated policies and standards so that everyone can have enough space to make their own contributions in their own way.