Recently I’ve developed a program that helps people identify their own `shoot myself in the foot’ workplace behaviours. People engage in all kinds of behaviours without realizing how harmful they are to their professional image and how they may be inadvertently limiting their own career advancement.
Here are seven self-sabotaging behaviours at work that made it to the top of my list:
1. Being in a bad mood – and showing it
2. “Going on partial strike” when you’re unhappy with something
3. Gossiping
4. Being friendly with some, while ignoring or marginalizing others (Or: Treating your superiors better than you treat colleagues)
5. Whining and complaining when the company does something nice for you
6. Being chronically late to meetings
7. Making others feel bad by dismissing their ideas
So, which of these did you engage in lately? and how do you plan to stop it?
