Handling workplace threats
Hello Friends,
Today I am sharing with you an interesting blog posted on TalentEquity.in/blog
Threats are part of everyday work life. They come to us every year, quarter or day in many forms. They posses the potential to disturb our worklife, approach, perspective etc. They could be anything from the following list:
• pink slips
• downsizing (or rightsizing in management terms!)
• take overs
• revengeful colleagues
• hotheaded bosses
• new technology
• new process at office
• your under performance and your colleague’s over performance could also be threats since its time of appraisal!
We really have to be proactive, on our toes, positive, change master to take on threats. But we can’t do that all the time. Sometimes threats may overtake us and crush us. It happens to all of us.
However a threat is only a threat not reality. Once it becomes a reality we can deal with it. Till then it is only a threat. It can only frighten us but can’t do any harm. But making out which threat will become reality and which not is something related to skill, talent and experience. There are many threats and we can not react to all of them. Similarly there are fewer reality and we need to address them all.
Threat should be seen as an opportunity. Each threat that becomes reality is actually an opportunity to grow, change, adapt and make over your approach/style of work/management. Our positive attitude helps us in taking threat as challenge. And challenge is an advisable way to establish yourself that you are the best.
Its a fact that if we never get challenged we never will improve!
The other day my friend who is now a senior management in an IT company was sharing his experience. What happened was that he used to work on a java in an IT company. But somehow his project got scrapped and he was asked to move on to Mainframe. So he was left with only two options either quitting or learn this new technology. He accepted the challenge because the company was an established well to do company and his career graph would
have been good, if he worked there. So he took this as an opportunity to learn a new technology, and not sulk at being removed from a particular project.
So if threats/situations let you down then don’t feel depressed. Instead just get back up and move upwards and onwards.
Looking forward to hear your stories as how you conquer different threats in your worklife.
Keep your feedback coming.
To read more workplace realted blog - TalentEquity.in/blog
Regards,
Sanjay
Today I am sharing with you an interesting blog posted on TalentEquity.in/blog
Threats are part of everyday work life. They come to us every year, quarter or day in many forms. They posses the potential to disturb our worklife, approach, perspective etc. They could be anything from the following list:
• pink slips
• downsizing (or rightsizing in management terms!)
• take overs
• revengeful colleagues
• hotheaded bosses
• new technology
• new process at office
• your under performance and your colleague’s over performance could also be threats since its time of appraisal!
We really have to be proactive, on our toes, positive, change master to take on threats. But we can’t do that all the time. Sometimes threats may overtake us and crush us. It happens to all of us.
However a threat is only a threat not reality. Once it becomes a reality we can deal with it. Till then it is only a threat. It can only frighten us but can’t do any harm. But making out which threat will become reality and which not is something related to skill, talent and experience. There are many threats and we can not react to all of them. Similarly there are fewer reality and we need to address them all.
Threat should be seen as an opportunity. Each threat that becomes reality is actually an opportunity to grow, change, adapt and make over your approach/style of work/management. Our positive attitude helps us in taking threat as challenge. And challenge is an advisable way to establish yourself that you are the best.
Its a fact that if we never get challenged we never will improve!
The other day my friend who is now a senior management in an IT company was sharing his experience. What happened was that he used to work on a java in an IT company. But somehow his project got scrapped and he was asked to move on to Mainframe. So he was left with only two options either quitting or learn this new technology. He accepted the challenge because the company was an established well to do company and his career graph would
have been good, if he worked there. So he took this as an opportunity to learn a new technology, and not sulk at being removed from a particular project.
So if threats/situations let you down then don’t feel depressed. Instead just get back up and move upwards and onwards.
Looking forward to hear your stories as how you conquer different threats in your worklife.
Keep your feedback coming.
To read more workplace realted blog - TalentEquity.in/blog
Regards,
Sanjay
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