"Eat, drink and be merry" is the soft power of the workplace
As the saying goes? Is the skill not overwhelming? The same is true in the workplace. Whether you are a fashionista who can dress up, a gourmet who is proficient in ordering food and familiar with the characteristics of various restaurants, or a good player and singer, these are your soft power in the workplace. As long as you use them properly, they will definitely add points to your workplace image. Nowadays, more and more people in the workplace understand this truth. Therefore, even though their full-time jobs are already very busy, more and more people are still taking time off to learn? A skill? .
If you shine at the right time, you can get extra points
The workplace is like rivers and lakes, and competition is everywhere. If you only want to do your job well, then it is likely that you can only do this for a lifetime? Job? Well, promotion, salary increase, leadership promotion and studying abroad will never benefit you. Why? Because everyone has done a good job, in the eyes of leaders, this is what you should do. Compared with your colleagues, you have no sparkle. So, besides doing your job well, you should also have a little sparkle for the leader? Shine at the moment? . Before entering the workplace, learning a skill well has become the knowledge of many people. Therefore, at various job fairs held a few days ago, having expertise has become the requirement of many employers. Like singing, dancing, playing ball and drinking? These specialties, which have nothing to do with the positions recruited, are becoming the conditions for employers to select talents.
Talking about this topic, Mr. A, a young man who works as a draftsman in a construction company, talked about his own experience. Three years ago, he was still a newcomer in the workplace, and he only wanted to do his job well. He was very dissatisfied with another colleague in the company, Mr. B.? All you do is drink, brag and kiss ass? As a result, something happened soon after that greatly shocked him. At that time, the company finally received a municipal project with an offer of 1.48 million yuan, and the other party responded with an offer of 1 million yuan. After several rounds of talks in the office, it was impossible to talk about it. Finally, the company's executives set up a dinner to entertain the other party's leaders. During the dinner, Mr. B said that he was good at learning and singing, and he drank a lot, so he enjoyed the other party very much. Finally, the other party's leaders made a stroke of a pen and the contract was sold at 1.38 million yuan! A meal actually helped the company earn hundreds of thousands more! From then on, A Jun never looked down upon B Jun again, and began to practice drinking hard in private. A jun figured out a truth, in today's workplace, it is not enough to do a good job at home. Specialty? It is also a bonus item.
? Atmosphere regulator? Multi-purpose
Sometimes, a skill is not only for getting extra points at work, but also for the public relations needs of the whole company. There is a company that wants to receive a big customer. This big customer doesn't like drinking, doesn't like singing, and just likes playing table tennis. How to do this reception is the key. Fortunately, one of the company's employees can play table tennis well, so the company moved the reception place from the office to the arena, played a hearty game with customers first, and then went to the hotel for dinner. The atmosphere was relaxed and warm, and the relationship with customers was naturally much closer.
If you pay attention, you will always find such a person in the company or unit, whose business ability is not particularly outstanding, but leaders always like to take him with them when attending banquets. Such a person often has such advantages: he is familiar with the head waiter of each restaurant, can book a good room, is good at ordering, has a good capacity for drinking and is eloquent, and the atmosphere is always particularly harmonious with him present. With such subordinates, leaders are of course willing to take them with them.
This kind of person is often regarded by leaders at all levels of the company? Atmosphere regulator? .
leaders also want it? Specialty? Win popularity
In some positions, there is no skill, let alone extra points, and even it is difficult to do a good job.
Mr. Rogge, who is engaged in the financial industry, recently plans to sign up for a white-collar singing club to improve his singing level. Rogge told reporters that his occupation is a financial planner, and he often has to deal with high-end customers. KTV is also a frequent place. If he can't sing, he will not only lose face, but also have a hard time getting along with customers, so he is determined to improve his karaoke skills.
Don't think that only new people who have just entered the workplace need to practice singing and playing ball, even those who already have a part-time job in the workplace need it. Mr. He is the secretary of the Communist Youth League Committee of a provincial government agency and institution. He said: Usually, I often have to engage in activities, and leaders and colleagues from all departments participate. It is always unreasonable for others to sing and I don't sing, and it is not conducive to my work. I can't be like an outsider there, I have to get along with everyone, so I asked a professional teacher to teach me well. ?
Mr. Xu, who is 41 years old, also embarked on the road of learning to play badminton because of his work, and his unit was adjusted. He became the new chairman of the trade union, and he often had to hold a ball game or something, but he felt it difficult to carry out activities because he knew nothing about sports. He thought, I am the chairman of the trade union, but I can't do any sports. How can I call others to play? So he decided to start with badminton, which is the easiest to learn. Needless to say, since he learned badminton, there have been more people supporting him in the competition.
So, don't think that only singers need to sing good songs and sports stars need to be able to play ball. In today's workplace, playing ball and singing may become ordinary people? Work needs? . It is precisely for this reason that more and more white-collar workers recharge their batteries in their spare time and take time off to study one? Specialty? . According to Song Xiaoduo, the head of the white-collar plastic sound club who specializes in teaching white-collar workers to sing karaoke, in just half a year, more than 311 people came to him to improve their karaoke skills, most of whom were white-collar workers in finance, trade and sales industries. The age span is also very large, ranging from young girls who have just entered the industry to CEOs of the company. Newcomers are to get the attention of leaders and improve their popularity in the workplace; Leadership is to socialize, communicate and improve the company's performance.
Will the future be the era of soft power competition in the workplace?
See more and more because? Specialty? After receiving special attention from the leaders, it was suggested that the future will be a contest era of soft power in the workplace. Different from the past, this soft power does not refer to family background and nepotism, but refers to personal qualities and abilities that can bring benefits and benefits to companies and units in addition to their own work. The content of soft power is not fixed, and everything depends on the actual situation. Obviously, a professional with contemporary consciousness will not put anything outside his work? Specialty? As a sideline, you won't spend it on study? Specialty? The time above is regarded as a waste of time. Of course, this is not to say that only soft power is enough, but that if your job is as good as others, soft power will become one? Choose to do the problem? . You can also earn a lot of points.
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