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Workplace Etiquette: Leaving Your Job the Right Way
People leave their jobs, that’s a fact. Often, when an employee leaves the workplace, co-workers find themselves overloaded with work, taking some of the goner’s tasks until a replacement is found.
In other occasions, the person leaving is a manager or executive who has been in the company for a fairly long period of time. While they were working, things ran smoothly and everything was organized. But the moment they walk out the door, things go awry. People start talking about how good this person was and how things were easy when he was around but now that he or she has left, every day is a nightmare. You can miss the person and the steadiness associated with his presence when actually, when this happens, it means that this person got it all wrong.
Posted in Career Wisdom, Workplace Etiquette
Tagged ethics, etiquette, good impression, leaving job, making an impression, memory, planning, priming, right way, workplace
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Think Those Trainings at Work are Cheesy and Childish? Think Again.
When you are working for a big organization training is something quite unavoidable, whether you like it or not. There are some of those trainings where activities consist in ice breakers and team building exercises. Now honestly, tell me how many times have … Continue reading
How to Viralize Your Company’s Culture One Team at a Time
The British scientist Richard Dawkins coined the word “meme” in The Selfish Gene (1976) as a concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena. Examples of memes given in the book included melodies, catch-phrases, beliefs, clothing fashion, and the technology of building arches. If Dawkins lived today, I’m sure he would have included Lolcats on his list.
Creating and spreading memes
Some types of viruses become successful organisms because they are simple and adaptable enough to be able to survive in a hostile environment long enough until they shelter in a host that lets them to replicate. For your memes to go viral you need to do the same thing: your meme has to be catchy or tempting to survive long enough and spread. It also has to be simple to adopt -so use the KISS method: Keep It Simple Stupid-.
Posted in Career Wisdom
Tagged change, cultural change, ideas, meme, memes, organizational culture, Richard Dawkins, selfish gene, spread, start change, teams, viral, virus
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You Are Not Your Title
You can argue whether people change or don’t. But I’m pretty sure of something though. People’s essence, barring exceptional circumstances, remains the same throughout life, but there are manifest behaviors and characteristics that do change over time due to what we experience … Continue reading
Young Employee – Old Company: How to Stay Motivated and Drive Change in an Outdated Environment
Being a Gen-Y employee working for a company that still lives in the 20th century and where senior managers mistake Blackberries with Star Trek Tricorders can be a towering challenge.
Old company doesn’t mean that they’ve been in business for hundreds of years. Longevity here is not a factor, what I refer to is the way that business is done. There are companies that have been around for ages but their culture has been forged with cutting edge knowledge and tech. On the contrary, some start-ups’ organizational cultures seem to be founded on some medieval scriptures. Somehow, old companies tend to be a retention magnet for “old people” (leave age aside!).
Old companies often move at a pace that to you, may seem like bullet time. It’s not infrequent to see people complaining about how certain tasks consume their entire weeks. Strikingly, you can get those things done in 2 hours, which leaves you wondering if you are either Flash or there’s a time dilation field surrounding your desk.
When Getting Promoted Can Make You Your Worst Enemy
Getting close to be promoted, if not appropriately handled, can become a threat to your current employment status.
