THE WORKPLACE AND YOU (17) - By @VicEmmaConsults
The worst part of the week for most employees is Monday morning.
Why? For a myriad of reasons which usually include; attending that senseless weekly meeting with that horrible boss at the head of the table reeling out statistics that confirm your non performance, relating with those pretentious colleagues who more than everything else wish you would drop dead so they can take your desk, waiting in trepidation for those obnoxious customers who never seem to be satisfied with your service delivery, reviewing your actions last week to ensure you are still in the good books of management in order to keep your job....
Monday morning will always be a scary day for any paid staff who approaches his occupation as an appendage of his/her life. For God's sakes, you spend close 12 hours of your life in the office and you still think you can compartmentalize your emotions between happy time and sad time? Come on, you need to adapt! How?
Train your mind to become a detached observer-participant; imagine your boss as a clown entertaining you when he fumes and pants and drools as he tries to belittle your contirbutions, tag along with your colleagues in the chess game of office politicking and look out for when you will expose their treachery, build an alliance with a few persons in senior management who will show empathy and solidarity if and when you breach company policy, and keep in mind that even Monday has only 12 hours of work time which will surely end.
Do everything in your power to make Monday an interesting part of your work week because how you feel on Monday usually determines how the rest of the work week goes.
Victor Idem (ACIA) (c) 2016
The worst part of the week for most employees is Monday morning.
Why? For a myriad of reasons which usually include; attending that senseless weekly meeting with that horrible boss at the head of the table reeling out statistics that confirm your non performance, relating with those pretentious colleagues who more than everything else wish you would drop dead so they can take your desk, waiting in trepidation for those obnoxious customers who never seem to be satisfied with your service delivery, reviewing your actions last week to ensure you are still in the good books of management in order to keep your job....
Monday morning will always be a scary day for any paid staff who approaches his occupation as an appendage of his/her life. For God's sakes, you spend close 12 hours of your life in the office and you still think you can compartmentalize your emotions between happy time and sad time? Come on, you need to adapt! How?
Train your mind to become a detached observer-participant; imagine your boss as a clown entertaining you when he fumes and pants and drools as he tries to belittle your contirbutions, tag along with your colleagues in the chess game of office politicking and look out for when you will expose their treachery, build an alliance with a few persons in senior management who will show empathy and solidarity if and when you breach company policy, and keep in mind that even Monday has only 12 hours of work time which will surely end.
Do everything in your power to make Monday an interesting part of your work week because how you feel on Monday usually determines how the rest of the work week goes.
Victor Idem (ACIA) (c) 2016
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