Joining the workforce is a real challenge let alone if your experience is a humble one. Not only you have to adapt to new rules, deadlines and tasks. You have to learn that just like clothes people come in different colors and styles when dealing with others or with the circumstances around you.
One of the most important things you'll come across is politeness; in other words, what are your manners like with your colleagues, and how do they behave with you. Because truth to be said lately employees seem to have a very poor idea of what it's like to be considerate, polite or understanding of others. In today's article, we'll discuss those behaviors.
1. Greetings
Greeting others says a lot about your personality than you could possibly imagine. To begin with, it's a nice way to break the ice with others in the friendliest way out there, and it's not about saying hi and bye only. The greeting does include other forms of questions like " how's your day going?" or "want to grab some coffee?"…etc.
There are endless ways to communicate with those around you, and endless ways to show your hate or frustration towards them too, just from a simple greeting. Things like being ignored or not greeted in the first place or simply being overlooked by a certain employee when trying to initiate a conversation.
As silly as it sounds research show that such trivial stuff is enough to affect not only the relationship at the work-place but also cause a bad outcome followed by fewer results and productivity than what's in mind. However, working out a better communication plan could elevate results and bring more profit to the company all thanks to a simple "good morning how's your day?"
2. Being Considerate
To keep things in line some sharp measures must be taken, but you shouldn't do that while overlooking your colleague's struggles or special circumstances. We all have our bad days and difficult situations and sometimes it's actually nice if you show consideration either by kind words like "hey you look tired, what's on your mind?" or even take actions that could help them feel better and ease their burden even for a tiny bit.
Just note that being considerate does not mean being naïve and let others use you for their own good. Helping out is good but too much of it is not. Being stern is needed but overdoing it creates barriers that affect work progress among employees, especially if the person with the problem is someone working in a sensitive position that influences many others, not just a few.
3. Different Opinions
Having a different opinion is not actually a behavior, but what comes with it from the moment you express it to how you welcome it is the key. Disagreeing with workers over business plans or certain details is fine but taking things personally, crossing the line and showing some rude comments and manners over that is far from what grown-up adults do.
This could truly become a problem as it affects how teamwork could go and cause more damage than good for simple misunderstandings. Situations like the way you criticize your fellow team members when you could simply have said it in a nicer manner to avoid the whole situation right from the get-go.
Words, as simple as they are as easy as it is to mess them up. One word could blow up a minor conflict and another could end a fight. We might forever be grateful for someone's kind words, and spend the rest of our life hating on someone for something awful they have said to us.
Human nature forces us not to forget the things that bother us easily, and so imagine how hard it would be for an employee to erase being belittled or humiliated in any sort of way in front of others. Surely not easy, but you know what's easy? Learning about the basics and etiquette of dealing with your co-workers just the way you put your all to learn about your job.
Written By - Dana Asnan
Edited By – Kashish Chadha
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