Polished Professional Image Blog

If your boss was to eaves drop on your conversations at work, what would she hear? What would she think of you professionally, based on what you talk about at work?  Your “conversations at work” is one more thing that can affect your professional image. If you continually berate your co-workers, management or your company, it reflects more negatively on you than on the object of your wrath.

If you simply must get a problem off of your chest, consider discussing the problem itself rather than the person(s) responsible for the problem. Then, only discuss solutions to the problem rather than nagging about it. For example, if you feel that the customer service department is not performing in the best interest of the customer or the company, rather than calling everyone lazy or (and I loathe this word) stupid, talk about customer service training options for the department. Then, if your boss happens to hear your conversation, your professional image is intact because instead of listening to you moaning about your co-workers, she hears you coming up with ideas that will improve the company.

Don’t jeopardize your professional image by nagging about problems at work.  Come up with solutions. Remember what Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

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