Congratulations — you’ve landed that job you wanted! Now it’s your first day, so you want to make a good impression on your co-workers and fit into the company culture as quickly as possible.
Company culture is the set of shared values, beliefs and behaviors that define a company. According to Alison Doyle in her article “Understanding Company Culture” for The Balance Careers, it’s important to fit into the culture because you’re more likely to enjoy the time you spend at work. Fortunately, there are several things you can do to fit in. Keep the following five tips in mind But before we continue,
HOW WAS YOUR FEELING ON YOUR FIRST DAY AT WORK? WHAT DO YOU WISH YOU HAD KNOWN BEFORE GOING TO WORK FOR THE FIRST TIME?
You have received your appointment, oh my God! the deal is great and your head keeps swelling and hearing heartbeats in your mind, yes not your heart. lol
God be with you if you have not prepared your mind with the change of environment, the people, and “the in house culture”
When I was moving into my new office, I had an awesome orientation with hearsay of the establishment but I discovered some strange news on the day of my interview.
Why do you want to join that reputable company? The people! She replied, what have the people done?.how they love each other and live like families, I said.
She said, don’t be, deceived, she remarked. And she quote
” the trees in the forest are not together but it seems together when you are far” an African adage.
After a year of my stay there, I realized indeed what he said was true.
A gentle reminder of some people you are going to meet at your new office.
1.INTIMIDATORS
2.COMPETITORS
3.Fellas that think you are educationally inclined than them and you might take their position.
4.Simply jealous of your personality.
5.The ones that everything you do irritate them
6. And finally, the ones that are simply dumb
My favorite among the above mention is the ones they think you should learn, catch the fire and all that they have learnt in 2 to 4 years and still think you should pick them in seven days.
I call them “dumb” because their intellectual teaching skills and learning ability are on a low IQ ratio. There are different ways through which people learn and a good teacher is the one that teacher’s to his or her student understanding no matter the student learning impairediment.
The success, happiness and the progress of your department depend on how exquisite, maturity and strategical ways you use for your advantage.
MASTER YOUR WEAKNESS AND CHANNEL IT FOR YOUR GOOD
When I first started work,I faced a lot of challenges but my utmost goal was to learn to be the best at the little I do. Mind you,sometimes its not about the much you do that qualifies you as the hard worker,it type little you do best.
Ofcouse I had pronounciation challenge,I felt it better of keep quite that to talk and make mistakes but I didnt see it from that angle rather I invested my resources in books to bettering my english pronounciation skills.
Sometimes it not about your weekness,it about the persons way of feeding up his or her weakness with you.
Take note here ,when people are intimidated about you, they try to point out your weakness to other people to prove you are not as good as they think you are.
I have seen people point out what I don’t have on my body that they lack just to feel good that, atleast they are not that bad and I get it. I have seen and heard people say a good thing about me that others chipped in my weakness just to feed their insecurities
That was devastating but one thing I found solace in was that, my field of specialty is not of use, if am not around, and moreover no body does it like how I do it.
NOTE, make a great commitment to the slightest contribution and leave a mark that can never be erased from peoples mind.” very important trick”
I remember my former boss called me a prompter specialist. Thanks to my immediate boss for giving me that challenge.Believe you me,I will forever be known for that.
CONQUER YOUR FEARS AND INSECURITY:
Everyone makes mistakes, insecurities come in different forms and preventions, you don’t wallow and die when you make them, you pay attention, focus, and better yourself. Trust me: you can never run away from making mistakes but you can mentally manufacture a way of preventing them and that should be your focus.
FIND HAPPINESS IN WHAT YOU DO
Find something that makes you happy at your new office, it could be someone you are crushing on, yes sister crush on someone, please it normal to crush on someone, don’t ask who? Or simply love what you do. You can never survive or stand the test of time if you don’t love what you do. lack of passion drives away people from what they do, so be passionate about what you do and do it with all dedication.
BE POSITIVELY MINDED
Be positively minded to the extent that people can even get annoyed by how your positive mental constructions are tune.
It takes maturity for a leader to be positive when it comes to working mishaps but is easier said than done because people find ways to justify their mistakes and rather make people’s life miserable by being negative and all boujie just because they are the leaders.
Yes, we know you are the leader and you will answer all the queries and take all the blames, it’s sometimes sad but trust me, your only cure is teamwork and encouragement and not shouting and captioning blames. some leaders are ignorant so work it out yourself to avoid breaking down.
BE MINDFUL OF YOUR ENVIRONMENT
Be vigilant,observe your environment.people are watching you from all direction,never think you are new at your office so you can do what ever you want.mind your speech,body language and keep private thing out of the office.
I know there is more I can talk about on this issue but I don’t want this article to be long so please let me know if you want me to do part 2 on this topic.
I hope this article goes a long way to help a gentle soul, PEACE OUT
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