Put On Your Professional Work Face-Part 1
Author: Andrew Bailey // Category: Management Articles For ManagersHaving a professional work face simply means keeping your personal and work secrets to your self. It also means having the proper demeanor at work which befits your particular profession. For example, you wouldn’t be all smiles and jokes if you worked at a funeral parlor greeting mourners arriving for a funeral. Basically, having a professional work face takes a bit of constructing on your part which takes a lot of care and thought. The person you present at work should be the type of person that can succeed in business and that your superiors will want to get to know better.
It goes without saying that the work face you ‘construct’ has to be real and not an avatar version of yourself. It should be made up of a few parts like what you wear, the way you conduct yourself around the office and in meetings, the way you interact with others, the way you use the office email and most importantly, the way you socialize with your colleagues after work and on office social events. I have worked for many companies over the years and they all had office social events and I can tell you, the way some conducted themselves at these events was nothing short of embarrassing for me, for themselves and the company they represented. At these events, or even when you are just out for a drink with workmates after work, you should have your professional work face on because you never know who’s watching or what can get back to your superiors about you and your conduct.
The bottom line is that you have to be careful as to what personal revelations you make about yourself to your colleagues and superiors. While telling the truth in business is desirable, telling the truth about yourself and the things you have done in the past, proud achievements or not, should be kept to yourself as much as possible. I have known some guys who called having sex with every girl in the office as an achievement and it probably is but, I dare say that their superiors and a lot of their colleagues wont think so, especially the female ones. This will only make others see you as a manslut, slut or simply just a liar. Before you start even thinking about announcing to the whole office your conquest of the girl or guy at the club the night before, think again. Unless you have a super hot body, when you start telling stories like that about yourself, it actually conjures up images of you naked to the people listening to you. In most cases, that is not a good thing and you really aren’t doing yourself any big favors at all. This equally applies to females as well as males.
The whole plan should be to win peoples esteem in a way that doesn’t compromise who you really are as a person. The way I used to look at it was that this is me at work and this is me at home. Same person but different demeanor depending on the situation. I’m not advocating for a minute to be someone who you are not but there are certain things that you wouldn’t do or say around certain people especially in the business world. For example, if you swear a lot at home, leave that at the door before you walk into your office as foul language generally isn’t tolerated well in business circles. Nobody wants to promote a foul mouthed loose cannon do they?
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