Most, if not all, of us will one day enter the working adult world of endless toil and thankless bosses. With backstabbing colleagues smiling at you, it becomes necessary to arm yourself with proper weapons. Since poisoning or using direct violence against co-workers are frowned upon in today's society (oh back in the good old days), we can only make use of our most basic weapons: our minds and wits.
To stand strong in the web of interoffice relationships, we need good people skills. Adding to the difficulty is the multi-cultural melting pot that are most companies these days.
Effective communication skills are essential to accomplish that. To understand and be understood, to impress but not intimidate, to take charge but not appear aggressive, to give ideas but not appear ambitious. In short, keep your boss happy, but keep your colleagues unwary.
P.S Picture taken from http://www.cultureresourcecentre.com.au/culturalcolumns.html
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Thank you, Weili, for this excellent post! (You also get congratulations for making the first one this term in all my sections.) I like the way you address the topic with razor-sharp insight, fine humor and creative spark.
This statement acts like an anchor to your passage: "It is more important than ever to have skills to express yourself clearly and not be misunderstood."
Great! I look forward to reading more of your thoughts this term!
Hi Weili! I like your clear and straightforward style of writing. Wish I could write like that too someday.. From your post it seems to me that you are rather cynical about relationships in the workplace. But what you wrote is valid and possible. Hmm.. Why do I feel reluctant to enter the workforce?
Hey Weili, I'm really impressed with the way you bring your messages across. Especially your "keep your boss happy, but keep your colleagues unwary." But certainly your first post has posed intimidation to the rest of your classmates and that includes me. Haha. Isn't that contradicting your "impress, but not intimidate?" Just joking. No doubt, I'm sure most of us will be enlightened by your post and I'm sure that you will continue to quench our thirst for more!! =)
I would say that this is a straight forward and very well delivered post! But personally, I feel that effective communication is more important in fostering good relationship with friends and family members rather than impressing our future bosses or protecting ourselves from interoffice relationships(which is indeed necessary).
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