(September 2010)
A fast-paced working environment is not always a friendly situation especially for young career starters if I base with my personal encounter. At early 20´s as the career kicks off overseas – joining a workplace of various nationalities; bosses coming from a different background and orientation, and swaggering colleagues – it is a whole staggering shake up. The situation itself does not offer chaos though… But these people involve in the operation whose out of rhythm can make it rough in a snap. Morale is triggered when you get yelled at in front of other people. That is the reason why I campaign big for this drive: “Reprimand in private, praise in public”. It is sweet as gourmet jelly belly in efficiency when motivating people.
Having to work with different immediate superiors for a while now, I see no difference – they all represent the typical human being. Most of them commend good work output, but make a mistake… They´ll blow you away like your father picks on your clumsiness issue when you were young. Perfection in all corporate aspects is where all efforts are directed, there´s no room for human error as the working procedures and processes become sophisticated in every approach – making the corporate owners´ expectation go high flying. This is the pressure that haunts the corporate heads which eventually transpire into their action towards the rank in file – something that is not easy to absorb at the low employee level´s perspective. Given their reality do not authorize them to incautiously act every way they wanted to anyway. There is a social norm that sets everyone´s path in the right manner. I personally dissent in the strongest sense being yelled at in front of other people – something that is inevitable by nature in a fast paced working environment but could absolutely be avoided. My approach is to put my sensitivity mode into the lowest scale when that happens, and switch it back to the maximum when I talk to him alone in private. A discussion becomes one way when one person´s voice is lower than the other… So be loud to shout for your right. They will not realize their bossy mistake if you don´t act bossy (when it´s just the two of you in the room) to your bossy boss. I however always stay in the safe side of the road –maintaining politeness and respect in a dominant body language with a clear confident message. Staying at the safe side requires productivity with a fact; make sure your defense supports personal work output and dramatic result. I insist to argue roughness because it is not necessary to be grumpy when one´s under pressure and share it to others – making the whole situation shaky. My result is something that should be looked at… Not his personal fashion way while I deliver my own task. Everyone has their own strategies that work for them. At bottom line – you still meet with the result anyway.
If I were the on the boss´ shoes I would apply “Different strokes for different folks” even if it suggests someone´s getting fired out for being repeatedly incompetent. I will be all for result and work output. Having it said, I am and you are the boss in our own rights with respect to some things within or outside the office anyway. We can totally do the opposite at the section under our cluster in the office, or at home where we become the head of the household. We can be nice, smooth and cool to design proper delegation of task if whether the right project goes to the right person who is skilled and interested at it; if he is gets constant communication to make sure everybody holds on to the same line where the corporate direction is heading. While doing their individual task, I would also impose: “Clean as you go” to free one post – the janitor´s job. I´ll be consistent with it until it becomes a mentality. Simply keeping things organized and giving a little effort to clean as we go or clean as we work is not a pain compared to having one person do all the job to clean up everyone´s mess, or end up wasting your weekend tidying your mess up from the whole past week.
After graduating from college, there´s nothing can be rewarding and prestigious than getting a promotion and become the next boss of your company. It´s not difficult to achieve though, we all equally face the same opportunity if we desire for it. Not when you have the choice to remain low with big bucks behind the compensation more than your former boss makes. I´d also rather adhere with one boss that occasionally gives me headache than becoming the boss myself and absorb multiple headaches from inefficient subordinates (as long as pay is good, it will perpetually work for me).
In all fairness to the bosses around the world, they still are human beings like anyone else´s – susceptible to commit mistakes – for no one is perfect… But! Perfect situations are so much achievable, only smart wiser boss can create.
A fast-paced working environment is not always a friendly situation especially for young career starters if I base with my personal encounter. At early 20´s as the career kicks off overseas – joining a workplace of various nationalities; bosses coming from a different background and orientation, and swaggering colleagues – it is a whole staggering shake up. The situation itself does not offer chaos though… But these people involve in the operation whose out of rhythm can make it rough in a snap. Morale is triggered when you get yelled at in front of other people. That is the reason why I campaign big for this drive: “Reprimand in private, praise in public”. It is sweet as gourmet jelly belly in efficiency when motivating people.
Having to work with different immediate superiors for a while now, I see no difference – they all represent the typical human being. Most of them commend good work output, but make a mistake… They´ll blow you away like your father picks on your clumsiness issue when you were young. Perfection in all corporate aspects is where all efforts are directed, there´s no room for human error as the working procedures and processes become sophisticated in every approach – making the corporate owners´ expectation go high flying. This is the pressure that haunts the corporate heads which eventually transpire into their action towards the rank in file – something that is not easy to absorb at the low employee level´s perspective. Given their reality do not authorize them to incautiously act every way they wanted to anyway. There is a social norm that sets everyone´s path in the right manner. I personally dissent in the strongest sense being yelled at in front of other people – something that is inevitable by nature in a fast paced working environment but could absolutely be avoided. My approach is to put my sensitivity mode into the lowest scale when that happens, and switch it back to the maximum when I talk to him alone in private. A discussion becomes one way when one person´s voice is lower than the other… So be loud to shout for your right. They will not realize their bossy mistake if you don´t act bossy (when it´s just the two of you in the room) to your bossy boss. I however always stay in the safe side of the road –maintaining politeness and respect in a dominant body language with a clear confident message. Staying at the safe side requires productivity with a fact; make sure your defense supports personal work output and dramatic result. I insist to argue roughness because it is not necessary to be grumpy when one´s under pressure and share it to others – making the whole situation shaky. My result is something that should be looked at… Not his personal fashion way while I deliver my own task. Everyone has their own strategies that work for them. At bottom line – you still meet with the result anyway.
If I were the on the boss´ shoes I would apply “Different strokes for different folks” even if it suggests someone´s getting fired out for being repeatedly incompetent. I will be all for result and work output. Having it said, I am and you are the boss in our own rights with respect to some things within or outside the office anyway. We can totally do the opposite at the section under our cluster in the office, or at home where we become the head of the household. We can be nice, smooth and cool to design proper delegation of task if whether the right project goes to the right person who is skilled and interested at it; if he is gets constant communication to make sure everybody holds on to the same line where the corporate direction is heading. While doing their individual task, I would also impose: “Clean as you go” to free one post – the janitor´s job. I´ll be consistent with it until it becomes a mentality. Simply keeping things organized and giving a little effort to clean as we go or clean as we work is not a pain compared to having one person do all the job to clean up everyone´s mess, or end up wasting your weekend tidying your mess up from the whole past week.
After graduating from college, there´s nothing can be rewarding and prestigious than getting a promotion and become the next boss of your company. It´s not difficult to achieve though, we all equally face the same opportunity if we desire for it. Not when you have the choice to remain low with big bucks behind the compensation more than your former boss makes. I´d also rather adhere with one boss that occasionally gives me headache than becoming the boss myself and absorb multiple headaches from inefficient subordinates (as long as pay is good, it will perpetually work for me).
In all fairness to the bosses around the world, they still are human beings like anyone else´s – susceptible to commit mistakes – for no one is perfect… But! Perfect situations are so much achievable, only smart wiser boss can create.
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