1. Find a Good Friend at workplace: – We feel it, we are told it, and the research supports it: friends matter. To have someone we are really close with at work helps us a lot. This can be even truer when you are in a less than ideal environment. There should be at least one friend at work when times are tough can be what makes or breaks you staying always with you at the workplace, or remaining same while you look for what’s next.
2. Talk with someone: – You don’t need to communicate your concerns or uneasiness with colleagues but you do need to communicate it to someone. Talk with a friend, a family member, therapist, coach—someone. The worst things to do when you are in the middle of a toxic work environment is always to keep it to yourself. Maybe your workplace is small or you don’t connect with your colleagues, or maybe you simply don’t have a good friend at work place.
3. Take breaks when you need: – When you are working with a work culture you have PTO and a lunch break for a reason. Downtime, space, and rest are essential. You need them even more if you’re in a toxic environment. Find small and easiest ways to take breaks daily. Leave your desk for lunch. Go on a five-minute walk alone. Walk to the lady’s room and stay for a moment longer. Even the busiest of days at the most demanding companies there are ways to find a moment for you. You should take breaks whenever you needed.
4. Exercise: – There’s a reason exercise is almost always on the list of any recommendations for maintaining sanity, composure, and happiness it is important because exercise is good for the mind and body and is really remarkable. Yoga is also good for health that helps you get centred, an intense spin class that and makes you focus on nothing else for 45 minutes, a brisk walk, or anything in between, moving your body will always help us cope, stay positive, and react more rationally. It’s a big bonus if you can exercise during a break in your workdays
5. Set goals: – It is one of the most effective tactics for personal and professional growth. For a short-term approach, set small, micro-goals. Maybe commit to “catching” yourself each time you start slipping into a negative thought, or organize a happy hour within the next three weeks, or make it a point to have lunch with two new peers. If you are not know how to determine where and what is your role at this toxic company fits into your larger career, you should consider some things like: What are you hoping to complete from this role? What are the limits of yours? And it is also very important to set personal goals that are only and only of yours, so that you can decide what is the best for you regarding staying or going. I firmly believe in the power of goal setting, but also believe it is deeply personal and therefore does not have to fit a certain meld.
6. Honour your limits: – If you are completed all these things and your still feels unbearable or unfixable, that can be because it is. If you can found ways to cope, it brought more positivity to the workplace, to take breaks and take care of yourself, established short and long-term goals to focusing yourself forward, but it still has determined that this is not a good environment for you—honour that. You can also have an honest conversation with yourself that helps a lot or, even better, have one with someone else.
7. Develop a strategy: -Sometimes there are reasons why you can’t just up and leave a job, but if you are unhappy, if you are in a toxic environment, if you something different and you are ready for that, you must come up with and you should execute a strategy to move yourself forward. This will not just happen to you. Remember, you are responsible for you, and you must take your career and life into your own hands.
8. Control the environment in your work space: -The fact is, if your workplace is succumbing to a rotten culture, there isn’t a whole lot you can do as one person to stem the tide. But you can control your work area, your desk, cubicle or office. Since you are the master of this domain, no matter how small, you can build yourself an oasis of things that put you in a good state of mind. Whatever works for you: plants, photos, stuffed animals, action figures. The stuff of comfort, to insulate you against the negativity as it hopefully works itself out.
Submitted By: Ishita Gupta | Vartika Srivastava
(PGDM Batch 2019-21)
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