How to Improve Your Office Manners

Following are few tips to improve your office manners.

• Always act with honesty and dignity.

• Booming voices sound good in theatre, not in an office. Talking loudly on phone, or to colleagues is ugly; it disturbs others and impedes their work.

• You may think you are fashionably late, but the HR doesn’t. Always being late to work earns you nothing but warnings and more warnings, increasing your chance of getting sacked.

• Personal use of office equipments is unethical and often constructed as unauthorized.  And for good reason – it inflates operational costs for businesses by tens of millions each year. So, stop it before they stop you.

• Tapping your phone keys or fiddling with your phone in meetings is rude. It shows disrespect to others and gives them the impression that you have better things to do rather than participate. FYI, it can also get you thrown out of the meeting.

• Once you bad mouth anyone, you cannot take your words back and it almost always finds its way to the concerned person. Nine times out of ten, your words get twisted you soon earn a bad reputation.

• When you pause to appreciate, recognize and cheer your colleague’s achievements – small and big- it boosts the morale of the achiever and the entire team. As a bonus, you come across as a team motivator that everyone wants to work with.

• If you habitually put off doing things, it is a good bet that you are habitually under pressure. Doing things on time prevents the unbearable last minute pressure that comes from tasks pilling up into a daunting mess.

• Making a To-Do list every morning allows you to do more things, more efficiently.  It also helps prioritize your tasks so that you don’t miss out on the urgent and important ones.

• Not taking frequent short breaks at work tires out your mind, brings down productivity and in many cases causes health hazards too. So take a break often.

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