工作中犯錯很正常，但這9個錯誤千萬要避免！（上）

No matter how talented you are or what you’ve accomplished, there are certain behaviors that instantly change the way people see you and forever cast you in a negative light.

不管你的天賦有多高，成就多麼輝煌，你的某些行爲總會瞬間改變別人對你的看法，讓你蒙上一層陰影。

Self-awareness is a critical skill in the workplace. It’s the foundation of emotional intelligence, a skill set that TalentSmart research shows is responsible for 58 percent of your job performance. If you remain self-aware, these mistakes are all things that you can control before they creep up on you and damage your career.

在職場裏，具備自我意識是至關重要的技能。這是基本的情商，也是TalentSmart公司通過研究調查發現，那是衡量人們工作表現的標準中佔據58%比重的一套技能。如果你有自知之明，你就能好好控制自己避免犯下這些錯誤，從而防止錯誤蔓延影響你的職業發展。

1. Over-promising and under-delivering.

1. 過高承諾與過低兌現。

It’s tempting to promise the moon to your colleagues and your clients, especially when you’re honest and hardworking and believe that you can do it. The problem is that there’s no point in creating additional pressure that can make you look bad. If you promise to do something ridiculously fast and you miss the deadline by a little bit, you’ll likely think that you did a good job because you still delivered quickly. But the moment you promise something to someone, they expect nothing less. You end up looking terrible when you fall short, which is a shame, because you could have done the same quality work in the same amount of time with great results if you’d just set up realistic expectations from the beginning. This is one of those situations where perception matters more than reality. Don’t deliberately undershoot your goals; just be realistic about the results you can deliver so that you’re certain to create expectations that will blow you out of the water.

給同事和客戶開個空口承諾的行爲很誘人，特別當你是一名勤懇辛勞工作的員工，相信自己能夠辦得到的時候。問題在於，你完全沒有必要製造額外的壓力讓自己難堪。如果你承諾以幾近荒謬的速度完成某件事情，最後卻落後截止時間一點點完成它，你仍然會認爲自己的表現很不錯，因爲你依然快速地兌現了承諾。但是當你一旦向他人承諾一件事，他們的期待值就不會降低。可是很遺憾地，最終你的表現不符合標準，你出糗了，因爲你們在最開始已經設定好切實的預期結果，你本可以在同時同質的工作的前提下得出好的結果。這是其中一個看法比現實更重要的情況。你不必故意降低目標，只需要認清自己兌現成果的能力，這樣你就能夠確保製造讓你脫離苦海的期待結果。

2. Having an emotional hijacking.

2. 情緒綁架。

An emotional hijacking demonstrates low emotional intelligence, and it’s an easy way to get fired. As soon as you show that level of instability, people will question whether or not you’re trustworthy and capable of keeping it together when it counts.

情緒綁架顯示一個人的情商是低水平的，也是很容易招致失業的行爲。一旦你的情緒不穩定，人們就會質疑你是否值得信任，以及是否能夠在緊急關頭保持冷靜。

Exploding at anyone, regardless of how much they might “deserve it,” turns a huge amount of negative attention your way. You’ll be labeled as unstable, unapproachable, and intimidating. Controlling your emotions keeps you in the driver’s seat (something you can develop through emotional intelligence training). When you are able to control your emotions around someone who wrongs you, they end up looking bad instead of you.

向任何人發火，不管對方看起來多麼“活該”，都會讓你造成巨大的負面形象。你會被貼上“情緒不穩定”，“難接近”，“令人生畏”的標籤。控制情緒能夠讓你保持主導權（能夠通過情商訓練得到提高的技能）。所以當別人中傷你時，你能夠控制自己的情緒，最後難堪的只會是他們而不是你。

3. Sucking up to your boss.

3. 拍老闆馬屁。

Some people suck up to their boss and call it managing up, but that isn’t the case at all. Sucking up has nothing to do with a real relationship built on respect; it is sneaky and underhanded. Suck-ups try to get ahead by stroking the boss’s ego instead of earning his or her favor. That doesn’t go over well with colleagues who are trying to make it on merit. Yes, you want to bolster your relationship with your boss, but not by undermining your colleagues. That’s the key distinction here. For a boss-employee relationship to work, it has to be based on authenticity. There’s no substitute for merit.

有些人拍老闆的馬屁還標榜自己是與上司保持同一陣線的，但實際上根本不是這樣的。阿諛奉承所得來的關係與建立在尊重基礎上的真實關係完全不一樣，前者是卑鄙又低劣的。拍馬屁的人試圖通過安撫老闆的自尊心而不是贏取他/她的好感而獲得成功。那樣的行爲，憑藉業績獲取老闆好感的同事們可不能接受。那就是這兩類人的主要區別了。上司與下屬的工作關係，應該建立在真實性的基礎上。功績是無法取代的。

4. Eating smelly food.

4. 進食氣味發臭的食物。

Unless you happen to work on a ship, your colleagues are going to mind if you make the entire place smell like day-old fish. The general rule of thumb when it comes to food at work is, anything with an odor that might waft beyond the kitchen door should be left at home. It might seem like a minor thing, but smelly food is inconsiderate and distracting—and so easily avoidable. When something that creates discomfort for other people is so easily avoided, it tends to build resentment quickly. Your pungent lunch tells everyone that you just don’t care about them, even when you do.

除非你剛好在船上工作，不然你的同事們肯定會介意你讓整個工作環境的氣味聞起來像是放了一天的魚的味道。當涉及到職場的飲食問題時，按照慣例，還是把那些氣味可能會從廚房飄散開去的食物留在家裏吧。雖然這件事好像不是很重要——把氣味難聞的食物帶進辦公室是很不顧他人感受的，還會影響別人——但也是很容易能夠避免的。若造成他人不適的事情是一件容易避免的事情，那麼這件事情就是很容易迅速引起他人反感的事情。你把刺鼻的午餐帶來，只會告訴別人你不在乎他人的感受，甚至當你在乎的時候也沒有辦法。

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