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Dont quit game1/9/2024 You have to be neutral and not take sides. While it is necessary to maintain friendly and cordial relations with everyone, make sure that you are not looked upon as a part of a particular group or a certain person’s man. You never know who at what point can become your ally,” says Sinha. “Never privilege one and prejudice the other. While sometimes you may need to be firm with your co-workers, make sure you never insult anyone. It is great to be the boss’ blue-eyed boy or girl, but it is far more rewarding to have great camaraderie with colleagues and subordinates. ![]() “Once I gave the evidence to my boss, my colleague didn’t know where to look. And good feedback from the client also helped me to establish my stand,” says Venkat. “Thankfully, I had copies of all mails exchanged with the client. “The only way to handle insinuations and politics is by addressing the issues on merit,” says Neeraj Venkat, a corporate lawyer who was once put in the dock by a colleague who blamed him for a miscommunication with a client. If your colleagues try and put you on the spot, don’t get defensive. If that is fine, no one can question him or her.” “At that time, the only thing that comes to the concerned person’s defense is his/her work record. “There are a lot of instances when people try to malign their colleagues, subordinates or even bosses,” says Mehta. ![]() This establishes your credibility as a good worker and negates the possibility of anyone pointing fingers at you. Meet your deadlines and stay as honest to your job as possible. It is important to evaluate what you’re surrounded by, working with factors such as how a certain person behaves, the expectations of your boss (and her or his boss) and how results are evaluated. “This includes your work profile, colleagues, the team you’re working with and the competition, besides, of course, the company’s work culture,” says Ritesh Sinha, HR manager in an IT firm. Once in an organisation, understand its work dynamics. “You need to recognise and understand your resources and use them effectively without machination to achieve your goals.” “It is like a game of strategy,” says Rohini Mehra, a corporate executive who learnt this through experience. And play it well – but play it fair and square. Nothing else really makes a difference.”īut how? If you’re surrounded by people trying to manipulate and pull you down, how do you climb up that ladder without being knocked off? Play office politics as though it’s a game, say experts. As HR executive Sharad Mehta says, “It is best to work your way up the ladder cutting through the politics. Instead make sure office politics doesn’t turn you into a bad worker. But you don’t have to give up or simply shrug and live with it. Backbiting, rear-licking, jealousy and politics at your workplace are a reality and there’s not much you can do to change that. ![]() In the hugely competitive professional scenario we work in, it is only natural to come across people who’ll try to climb up the career ladder with their feet on your back. But how do you move past them? Get into fights at work? Rat out troublesome colleagues to your boss? Become the quintessential ‘yes boss’ dummy and lose your identity? Or simply quit your job? Bitchy colleagues, whimsical bosses, annoying subordinates and a stressful office atmosphere are definitely not the newest phenomena in our lives.
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