Keep a Good Relationship with Your Current Job Supervisor and Fellow Employees
In this era of labor shortages, there might be a tendency to pay less attention to these relationships. This article will discuss why that attitude can be a big mistake.
Let’s start with your job supervisor. Your job supervisor gives you your work evaluations and might someday be asked by a potential future employer what type of employee you are or were. These evaluations and references can help or hurt your efforts to get a new job or a promotion. Especially concerning a future promotion, an “Employee of the Month” award will help more than a negative reference from your current job supervisor.
Now, let’s discuss your current fellow employees. If you do not get along well with them, your work evaluations probably will not be as good as they will be if you get along well with them. Too many employees think that hard skills are more important than soft skills. You will find it hard to get along well with others if your soft skills are lacking.
As an example of soft skills, consider teamwork. If a worker hogs all the credit, tries to boss other team members around, or does not do his or her share of the team’s work, he or she will probably not have a good relationship with the other team members.
Someday, if the worker with the poor teamwork skills is looking for another job where a former team member now works, there will be payback. Since these two people had a poor relationship in their former job, the person with the poor soft skills will not have certain advantages in his or her job search. The job searcher will not have valuable inside information about the desired company. The former coworker who now works in the desired company might even give a poor evaluation of the job seeker. Conversely, the employee with good soft skills might be able to network with many former coworkers who are working at numerous different companies.
The worst advice to follow is that of Johnny Paycheck, who sang, “Take this job and shove it.”
What have you seen that demonstrates good soft skills or poor soft skills?
