*** Wish you all could be happy with your work !!! ***
[Top 10 Ways to Be Happy at Work]
From Susan M. Heathfield; For more information for Susan, click here
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Working at Google sounds very cool. I'd be the first to tout Google as
a motivating employer: free food, engineers who are enabled to spend
20 percent of their time on their own projects, and a work environment
that fosters play and creative thinking. At Google, Genentech and other
Fortune magazine top 100 companies, employers provide best workplaces.
At the same time, perks that enable employees to spend all of their time
at work exploit people and destroy work - life balance. So, even the
best employer may not be best for everyone. These are the factors that
will help you find happiness at work.
1) Choose to Be Happy at Work
Happiness is largely a choice. I can hear many of you arguing with me,
but it's true. You can choose to be happy at work. Sound simple?
Yes. But, simplicity is often profoundly difficult to put into action.
I wish all of you had the best employer in the world, but, face it, you
may not. So, think positively about your work. Dwell on the aspects of
your work you like. Avoid negative people and gossip. Find coworkers
you like and enjoy and spend your time with them. Your choices at work
largely define your experience. You can choose to be happy at work.
2) Do Something You Love Every Single Day
You may or may not love your current job and you may or may not believe that
you can find something in your current job to love, but you can.
Trust me. Take a look at yourself, your skills and interests, and find
something that you can enjoy doing every day. If you do something you
love every single day, your current job won't seem so bad. Of course,
you can always make your current job work or decide that it is time to
quit your job.
3) Take Charge of Your Own Professional and Personal Development
A young employee complained to me recently that she wanted to change jobs
because her boss was not doing enough to help her develop professionally.
I asked her whom she thought was the person most interested in her
development. The answer, of course, was her. You are the person with
the most to gain from continuing to develop professionally.
Take charge of your own growth; ask for specific and meaningful help
from your boss, but march to the music of your personally developed
plan and goals.
You have the most to gain from growing - and the most to lose, if you stand still.
4) Take Responsibility for Knowing What Is Happening at Work
People complain to me daily that they don't receive enough communication and
information about what is happening with their company, their
department's projects, or their coworkers. Passive vessels, they wait
for the boss to fill them up with knowledge. And, the knowledge rarely
comes. Why? Because the boss is busy doing her job and she doesn't know
what you don't know. Seek out the information you need to work
effectively.
Develop an information network and use it.
Assertively request a weekly meeting with your boss and ask questions to learn.
You are in charge of the information you receive.
5) Ask for Feedback Frequently
Have you made statements such as, "My boss never gives me any feedback,
so I never know how I'm doing." Face it, you really know exactly how
you're doing. Especially if you feel positively about your performance,
you just want to hear him acknowledge you. If you're not positive about
your work, think about improving and making a sincere contribution.
Then, ask your boss for feedback.
Tell him you'd really like to hear his assessment of your work. Talk to
your customers, too; if you're serving them well, their feedback is
affirming.
You are responsible for your own development. Everything else you get is gravy.
6) Make Only Commitments You Can Keep
One of the most serious causes of work stress and unhappiness is
failing to keep commitments. Many employees spend more time making
excuses for failing to keep a commitment, and worrying about the
consequences of not keeping a commitment, than they do performing the
tasks promised.
Create a system of organization and planning that enables you to assess
your ability to complete a requested commitment. Don't volunteer if you
don't have time. If your workload is exceeding your available time and
energy, make a comprehensive plan to ask the boss for help and
resources. Don't wallow in the swamp of unkept promises.
7) Avoid Negativity
Choosing to be happy at work means avoiding negative conversations,
gossip, and unhappy people as much as possible. No matter how
positively you feel, negative people have a profound impact on your
psyche.
Don't let the negative Neds and Nellies bring you down. Take a look at: start.
8) Practice Professional Courage
If you are like most people, you don't like conflict. And the reason
why is simple. You've never been trained to participate in meaningful
conflict, so you likely think of conflict as scary, harmful, and
hurtful. Conflict can be all three; done well, conflict can also help
you accomplish your work mission and your . Conflict can help you serve
customers and create successful products.
Happy people accomplish their purpose for working. Why let a little
professional courage keep you from achieving your goals and dreams?
Make conflict your friend.
9) Make Friends
In their landmark book, First, Break All The Rules: What the World¡¯s
Greatest Managers Do Differently (Compare Prices), Marcus Buckingham
and Curt Coffman list twelve important questions. When employees
answered these questions positively, their responses were true
indicators of whether
people were happy and motivated at work. One of these key questions
was, "Do you have a best friend at work?" Liking and enjoying your
coworkers are hallmarks of a positive, happy work experience.
Take time to get to know them. You might actually like and enjoy them.
Your network provides support, resources, sharing, and caring.
10) If All Else Fails, Job Searching Will Make You Smile
If all of these ideas aren't making you happy at work, it's time to
reevaluate your employer, your job, or your entire career. You don't
want to spend your life doing work you hate in an unfriendly work
environment. Most work environments don't change all that much. But
unhappy employees tend to grow
even more disgruntled. You can secretly smile while you spend all of your non-work time job searching.
It will only be a matter of time until you can quit your job - with a big smile.
[My personal comments]
You know what, the happiest person is to make a living by doing what
he/she likes to do best, such as who likes to play game is becoming a
pro-gamer, who likes to travel is becoming a tour guide etc.
However, unfortunately most of people could not make it, it's just not
so much realistic. That's why we have to try our best to be happy at
work like as what descibes above.
Wish it helps you to find out much happier working atmosphere !
Most of people compain their jobs as they repeated again and again, and the job is boring. But have you thinked it one more, there is a lot of people they can not find their jobs. You may be luck dog in the word, because you have job, and you can creat our socialty. Be more happy and i hope ervery one with smail in their face.^^
(♡.78.♡.66) - 2008/05/04 22:46:44
happy virus~ your happiness can make other people feel happy~
공부하는쥐(♡.18.♡.40) - 2008/05/06 11:01:50
Hi, wqz,
Thanx for your kind comments. You are quite right !
Hi, Rena,
Happty virus ~~, I fully agree with you !
Most of people compain their jobs as they repeated again and again, and the job is boring. But have you thinked it one more, there is a lot of people they can not find their jobs. You may be luck dog in the word, because you have job, and you can creat our socialty. Be more happy and i hope ervery one with smail in their face.^^
happy virus~ your happiness can make other people feel happy~
Hi, wqz,
Thanx for your kind comments. You are quite right !
Hi, Rena,
Happty virus ~~, I fully agree with you !
Wish you both have a lovely day !