What’s the point of working so hard? To get a promotion and a raise. The most important thing is that you have to work hard to get a promotion and a raise. As the saying goes, it’s hard not to get knifed when you’re in the workplace. The way to get along with colleagues is also one of the necessary qualities in the workplace. Protect yourself, have a good relationship with your colleagues and superiors, and work hard to get a promotion and a raise, all three are things that people in the workplace must do well oh. At this time, a moderate amount of playing dumb is very necessary. It can protect yourself from harm, but also help you gain the goodwill of your colleagues, and even the opportunity to get a promotion and a raise.
Playing dumb, if you know how to play dumb, you are not dumb, but wise. The company’s main goal is to provide a platform for the development of the company’s products and services.
Generally speaking, there are two kinds of playing dumb: playing dumb for others, and playing dumb for yourself. But it’s easier said than done, so how do you play dumb? To what extent will it not be botched? The first is to make sure that you have a good idea of what you are doing.
Scenario 1:
The boss asks. “Are there those people in the company who are not following the rules lately?” Meaning for you to report on the recent employees. Some people will just say what behaviors those people have not followed the rules. And the smooth ones will be selective. For non-principle issues, such as someone who has been late or stealing sleep, they will help their colleagues find an excuse to muddle through in front of their bosses.
This is a roundabout way of dealing with the world if you want to be a fish out of water in the workplace. It’s a good way to get along with your colleagues, and when they find out, they will be grateful for this behavior.
On the other hand, it’s also a way to protect yourself. If you talk to your boss this time about a colleague’s usual non-compliance, you may get a momentary commendation from your boss, but when your boss comes around, you’ll lose more than you gain. The boss will think: this guy betrayed his colleague for his own gain or loss, and cannot entrust important things. Thus you lose the chance to be rehired. The boss will also even associate that you will talk about him behind his back. This is one of the boss’s taboos, you have stepped on the minefield, how the results can be expected. Another benefit is that it will give the boss an impression of an honest person, reliable and stable. The company’s main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers.
Scenario 2:
” Hello, Mr. Zhang. Have you signed the document I gave you yesterday?” Mr. Zhang thought for a moment, then rummaged through the boxes, and finally spread his hands, “I’m sorry, I’ve never seen your papers.” If you are fresh out of school, you will usually say, “I watched you lay the papers on the table!” But that’s never the case with a veteran, who will calmly say, “Well, then, I’ll go back and look for that document.”
Eight hours a day, everyone can’t guarantee that they remember exactly what they did every minute. If Mr. Zhang really does not remember, then arguing will only drag time and will not help things, and will even anger the boss, which will certainly not be good for the staff. How about another get out to Mr. Zhang to sign, this is over. If Zhang always remembered that there is such a thing, but forgot where to put it, then you expose him will only make him angry into shame. Another copy to Zhang signed, you can also look at the document when he, by the way, to ask the boss’s opinion on the matter. Doing so can understand how the leader is to see things, so that they do things more close to the boss’s heart, but also pulled in and the relationship with the boss. And verbal reports are obviously much better than reading dry text, and problems can be communicated in time for correction.
Scenario 3:
One day a colleague says to you. “You got the wrong file the other day.” In fact, this document has several handlers, not necessarily you. If it is a relatively straightforward person or inexperienced people will directly yell: “Absolutely not me. I clearly saw it clearly.” If you are a veteran, you will say, “Really? I’m not sure about that.” What’s the solution? A little leeway for each other.
If it’s just a misunderstanding, a direct rebuttal will embarrass the other person and make them feel bad, and it may not be natural for each other to see each other later. You should know that colleagues get along for at least eight hours a day, and if there is bad blood between the two sides, both business and casual conversation will not be pleasant. There is another situation where someone does something wrong and a colleague thinks you did it wrong, or a colleague clearly knows and wants to plant it on you. If you play dumb and ask the question back a few more times, you can somehow get the other person to back off. Even if the other party continues to tell the story, you can judge and refute based on his description of the situation, but pay attention to the tone of voice to be calm, the narrative to the matter. The worst case scenario is that the plant is successful, so at least his description will give you an idea of where things stand and make it easier to take the next step.
The last type is moderate performance. That is, telling someone that they can’t do it when they clearly can.
Why? For one thing, when you’re too competent, you get busy. Being busy is sometimes a good thing, sometimes not. Because you can do everything or most of the important things can be done, the boss will not always praise you with a raise and promotion, but take it for granted. And the busier you are, the more likely you are to make mistakes, precisely because you perform so well up front, the less your boss will tolerate your mistakes.
Again, it’s blocking other colleagues’ opportunities to perform, and over time it becomes a public enemy. This is the wood show in the forest wind will destroy. The company’s main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers.
In short, in the workplace, you have to be smart about the right things and confused about the wrong things.
The right thing is to be clear about things like your job, your leadership, your company’s goals, or your own business, such as contracts, salaries, treatment, promotions, etc. Also, to work smarter, relationship muddle some, to their own work must be clear, not vague, ‘probably, may, as if’ as far as possible do not say. In dealing with interpersonal relationships, the variables are great and very delicate, so it’s better to be a peacemaker, take less of a stand, not talk about others behind their backs, and be difficult to be confused.
In the workplace, always think of yourself as the smartest person, you must be the life of the dragon, the real smart masters, is a great wisdom, when the smart time smart, should not be smart when playing stupid, this is the workplace ‘stupid The actual smart master is a great deal more smart when it should be smart, and shouldn’t be smart when it plays dumb.