| Sure, everybody wants to be successful and | | | | body and is an effective way to eliminate |
| start their way up to the corporate ladder. | | | | stress. Be sure to concentrate on exercising |
| Most people spend most of their hours in a | | | | rather than the issues at work. Try to focus |
| day at work even at times to the point of | | | | and leave work in the office. |
| bringing work at home. Weekends are spent | | | | |
| with meeting colleagues for the upcoming | | | | 4. Tap your support network. Always establish |
| events of the next week. There are certain | | | | rapport and friendship among co-workers |
| moments too that work eats up more than the | | | | because you will never know when you need |
| eight or nine-hour requirements. These are | | | | them. It is from them you will get your |
| the workaholic employees. | | | | inspiration, motivation, encouragement, |
| | | | support and feedbacks. |
| On the other side of the fence, employees who | | | | |
| are too lax and find office work so boring | | | | 5. Enjoy what you do and love your work. Bear |
| are very creative in pretending to work. They | | | | in mind that even though this is the case, it |
| find means to make them busy or do other work | | | | is required still that you strike a balance |
| rather than the office tasks delegated to | | | | between your work and personal life. If not, |
| them. These unhappy workers usually try to | | | | the tendency is for you to depend too much on |
| work on other "rackets" in addition to what | | | | work for satisfaction. |
| their earning and use company supplies to | | | | |
| attend to these unrelated works. Most often, | | | | For the easy go lucky type of worker who |
| they absent themselves in staff meetings. | | | | displays a dishonest attitude in terms of the |
| | | | hours paid by the company without working and |
| Both of these workers, whether they notice it | | | | using company supplies for other purposes |
| or not, hamper their success in work due to | | | | outside work, here are surefire actions he |
| different circumstances and at the rate they | | | | may find himself in and would totally kill |
| are going. Take the first example, the | | | | his career if he does not change - |
| "workaholic employee." In time, this person | | | | |
| will eventually feel extreme fatigue, stress | | | | 1. Do not follow through. These are the |
| and exhaustion. He will observe that he | | | | employees who perhaps are hardworking but do |
| cannot get things done or he cannot do them | | | | not produce and deliver results as they |
| properly and correctly. If this happens, | | | | promised. They may execute tasks but without |
| burnout has occurred. | | | | enthusiasm and keenness to details. |
| | | | |
| According to an economic professor in one of | | | | 2. Not admitting mistakes. These are prone to |
| Americas prestigious university, Americans | | | | employees who often justify their inadequate |
| work habit of spending more hours working has | | | | performance and manifest wrong judgment |
| been continuously increasing in the past few | | | | resulting to decision making mistakes. |
| decades. It will not be impossible that | | | | Employees who are able to admit their |
| Americans will return back to their old habit | | | | weaknesses and mistakes are signs of |
| in the 1920s spending too much time in their | | | | confidence and professional maturity. |
| jobs. | | | | |
| | | | 3. Just being complacent. Those employees who |
| Burnout is one of the guaranteed career | | | | are afraid to take risks get lost and at |
| killers in our society today. Here are some | | | | times left behind by much younger and newer |
| recommendations to avoid such condition to | | | | employees. They are not brave to think |
| happen - | | | | outside of the box and live within their |
| | | | shells. |
| 1. Allot time for play. Have time for your | | | | |
| families, relatives and friends. Spend time | | | | 4. Having an empty battery. No energy means |
| with them in out-of-town gigs and trips. | | | | no quality work produced. Be sure to avoid |
| Learn how to delegate and train staff under | | | | being burnout. Take breaks during your days |
| you so that you can be absent from work | | | | work. |
| knowing that you will leave a competent staff | | | | |
| doing your work on your behalf. | | | | 5. Not practicing team spirit. This means |
| | | | negative attitudes are always on the high |
| 2. Walk you talk. Do not let anyone burn you | | | | level instead of the positive ones. This |
| out just because you fell short of other | | | | results to low spirit, less motivation, |
| peoples or the company's expectations of you. | | | | easily discouraged and pessimism. |
| You have a different set of value system and | | | | |
| therefore you have to follow that value | | | | Avoid all these career killers and sure |
| system and make a balancing act of adjusting | | | | enough you will reach your distinctive place |
| to other peoples value system as well. | | | | in the corporate ladder. Peel off your old |
| | | | skin of dishonesty and renew it with the new |
| 3. Workout. Exercise can do wonders to your | | | | skin of determination and enthusiasm. |