提問:我想知道如何避免把上一份工作中的感情包袱和不良誘因帶入新的職場(chǎng),。如果是剛剛結(jié)束一段糟糕的感情關(guān)系,可以花一段時(shí)間來恢復(fù),,但職場(chǎng)不行,,我們大多數(shù)人在擺脫了一份糟糕的工作后,沒有恢復(fù)期,。直接就走入到了下一份工作中,。我擔(dān)心的是,在一個(gè)不會(huì)讓員工過度工作的公司,,在一個(gè)我可以信任管理層會(huì)把員工利益最大化的公司,,我反而會(huì)不知道如何處事。最近我和公司里的一個(gè)實(shí)習(xí)生聊了聊,,他們非常清楚應(yīng)當(dāng)在什么時(shí)候,、什么地方明確地劃出自己的界限,這讓我意識(shí)到自己毫無界限感,。
——阿什利
親愛的阿什利,
你之前在那樣的一個(gè)地方工作,,而且沒有過渡期直接就開啟了新工作,真是令人難過,。兇險(xiǎn)的職場(chǎng)比比皆是,;曼努拉?普利斯姆斯在《哈佛商業(yè)評(píng)論》(Harvard Business Review)里寫道:“僅在美國,就有數(shù)百萬人在工作中遇到過霸道的上司和職場(chǎng)霸凌,?!北M管這種情況無處不在,卻并不意味著它們的危害會(huì)因此減少,,我明白你為什么會(huì)思考上份工作對(duì)你的影響以及對(duì)你下一段工作的影響,。
剖析有毒文化對(duì)我們產(chǎn)生的影響很難,但非常重要,,這是我們所有人都要做的事,。我們有責(zé)任反思自己是如何全盤接受那些對(duì)自己和他人產(chǎn)生負(fù)面影響的充滿破壞性的文化標(biāo)準(zhǔn)和行為,不斷加以強(qiáng)化,,還將其體現(xiàn)在了日常行為中,。在你嘗試弄清楚這些負(fù)面影響在你的生活中以何種面目出現(xiàn)時(shí),我希望你能騰出空間,,仔細(xì)想想它們對(duì)你和你的身體產(chǎn)生了何種影響,。當(dāng)你對(duì)自己在下一份工作中如何嶄露頭角滿懷期待時(shí),,想一想要如何有意識(shí)地為那里的文化做出貢獻(xiàn)。
盡管我希望,,我僅僅需要告訴你,,在進(jìn)入下一個(gè)角色前你應(yīng)當(dāng)如何利用一段時(shí)間來調(diào)整,但我知道不是每個(gè)人都能在兩份工作中間擁有長(zhǎng)時(shí)間的假期,,因?yàn)楝F(xiàn)實(shí)的生活成本,、醫(yī)保需求、上一份工作離職日期和新工作到崗日期之間的協(xié)調(diào)等等,。盡管如此,我仍然認(rèn)為,,在這個(gè)時(shí)候,,無論如何都要把休息和修復(fù)個(gè)人健康當(dāng)成頭等大事。
如果能在兩份工作之間休息一下,,一定要休息,。時(shí)間越長(zhǎng)越好,但也要量力而行,。如果現(xiàn)在不能休息,,那就在入職頭兩個(gè)月或者一旦有時(shí)間,就安排一些假期,。不同公司的政策不同,,哪怕沒機(jī)會(huì)和老板談在入職前休一個(gè)月假了,仍然可以考慮入職后什么時(shí)候可以休息一下,。哪怕你在前幾個(gè)月只休幾個(gè)長(zhǎng)周末,,等入職5個(gè)月再計(jì)劃休假,也能有所幫助,。給自己留足空間很關(guān)鍵,,只有這樣你才能捋清楚過去的經(jīng)歷,想明白你想在下一份工作中如何表現(xiàn),。
在思考如何騰出時(shí)間來休息和恢復(fù)時(shí),,可以從“小憩部”( Nap Ministry)找找靈感。小憩部由特里西亞?赫西于2016年創(chuàng)立,,相信“小憩具有解放的力量”,,休息是“社區(qū)治療的一種激進(jìn)工具”。小憩部認(rèn)為,,在資本主義制度下,,每個(gè)人因?yàn)橐恢北3稚a(chǎn)力、一直辛苦工作而承受很大壓力,,我們的體制給邊緣化群體造成了不成比例的創(chuàng)傷,,也給我們?cè)斐蓚?。小憩部在推特和Instagram上很活躍,它們的賬號(hào)中有一些小技巧和小提示,,提醒你要找到空間來休息,,在你被新工作卷入到新一輪的生產(chǎn)力循環(huán)中之前,可以把這些賬號(hào)加到自己的訂閱里,,或許會(huì)有所幫助,。
“很多事情都要用心、用身體,、用靈魂去感受,。你不可能通過閱讀、交談和學(xué)習(xí)把一切都弄明白,?!蔽缢勘局茉谕铺厣蠈懙馈D阈枰木褪沁@樣的理念,,我很難找到更恰如其分的表達(dá),。
除了提倡從不停轉(zhuǎn)的工作中抽時(shí)間歇一歇,小憩部還會(huì)分享一些讓你休息,、檢查身體狀態(tài)的小方法,,包括午睡、抽時(shí)間冥想,、尋覓一些安靜時(shí)刻加入一天的固定日常,。這些關(guān)注自我的平靜時(shí)刻十分重要。
但這些時(shí)刻也無法幫助你立即擺脫上一份工作的負(fù)擔(dān),。
“在資本主義世界里,,沒有什么技巧可以讓你一蹴而就,擺脫奮斗文化,,養(yǎng)成休息的習(xí)慣,。也許這就是問題的一部分——我們總是想要“快速見效”的靈丹妙藥。你會(huì)需要一段時(shí)間的舒解期,。休息的時(shí)間到了,。你可以做到的?!焙瘴鹘衲暝缧r(shí)候在Instagram上寫道,。
每天都給自己留點(diǎn)時(shí)間停下來,記住工作之外的時(shí)間才是自己的時(shí)間,。抵制資本主義要求你不?!白觥钡膲毫Γ胍幌朐趺纯梢浴办o”,。只有你自己才可以停下來,,就像只有你才可以在下一份工作中設(shè)定界限,、保持界限一樣。
你似乎已經(jīng)意識(shí)到了,,你在工作上沒有明確的界限,,這已經(jīng)邁出了重要一步。你離開了一個(gè)有毒的環(huán)境,,進(jìn)入了一個(gè)更健康的新環(huán)境,,又邁出了重要的一步。因?yàn)槟阏f你覺得自己的工作界限“不存在”,,從這點(diǎn)上來看,,即使你不這么認(rèn)為,你可能一直在某些方面強(qiáng)化上一份工作中習(xí)以為常的文化規(guī)范,。這點(diǎn)可能很難接受,,但我們每個(gè)人都是這樣的。
這是因?yàn)槁殘?chǎng)文化不是像天氣這樣發(fā)生在我們身上的外部環(huán)境,。我們是它的一部分,我們已經(jīng)融入其中,,我們被動(dòng)地或主動(dòng)地參與了進(jìn)來,。研究表明,如果某些職場(chǎng)的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)層有毒,,會(huì)通過公司文化加以傳播,,受到摧殘的員工往往會(huì)將這種文化內(nèi)化,再傳遞給其他同事,。
《合作,、集體和協(xié)作文化工作工具包》(Toolkit for Cooperative, Collective, & Collaborative Cultural Work)指出,,“通過我們生活在其中的有毒文化,,有毒行為根植于我們體內(nèi)?!边@個(gè)工具包非常有用,,它從個(gè)人優(yōu)先的角度在宏觀層面上識(shí)別有害行為。它是Press Press和Institute for Expanded Research合作項(xiàng)目的一部分,,前者是一個(gè)總部位于巴爾的摩的團(tuán)體,,致力于創(chuàng)建社區(qū)、提高邊緣團(tuán)體的聲音,,后者是一個(gè)由跨屆藝術(shù)家張路(音譯)創(chuàng)立的藝術(shù)項(xiàng)目和研究計(jì)劃,。
Press Press多年來在巴爾的摩開展了出色的工作,我很欣賞他們把價(jià)值觀體現(xiàn)在每個(gè)項(xiàng)目中的做法,。隨著他們把工作從巴爾的摩擴(kuò)展到洛杉磯,,和Institute for Expanded Research進(jìn)行了更廣泛的合作,,深入研究了“幫助文化組織者開展集體工作的緊急模型和方法”,試圖擴(kuò)展和闡明“培養(yǎng)并維持與世界上其他人共處合作時(shí)兼具道德感和同理心的基本準(zhǔn)則所必須的條件”,。該工具包是他們通過合作,,向公眾大方提供的產(chǎn)品之一。
該工具包“以平等,、解放,、正直和差異的價(jià)值觀為基礎(chǔ)”,綜合了來自不同群體關(guān)于協(xié)同工作的建議,。它是一個(gè)思想理論與最佳實(shí)踐的寶庫,,為我們與他人共事提供參考,幫助我們認(rèn)識(shí)到周圍的系統(tǒng)和它們對(duì)我們的影響,。如果你想在工作中以新方式展露崢嶸,,它可以針對(duì)如何建立卓有成效的合作為你提供靈感和戰(zhàn)術(shù)技巧。
你需要努力改掉一些習(xí)慣,,探索一下可以在哪里更好地定義并保持你的邊界,。對(duì)“不存在的界限”的另一種解讀是,你做事缺乏目的性,。該工具包分享了一些實(shí)用的方法,,可以幫助你在工作和你正在創(chuàng)造的文化中劃清責(zé)任,提高目的性,。重要的是要從一開始就設(shè)定期望值,。“在進(jìn)入項(xiàng)目,、集體或工作關(guān)系之前,,一定要訂立合同或共享協(xié)議,”這是工具包的建議,?!昂贤且环N組織工具,是人們之間的協(xié)議,,在工作和我們自己間劃定界限,。合同可以用于問責(zé)。和你的合作者一起設(shè)定目標(biāo),,直接而清晰地列出你的個(gè)人目標(biāo)會(huì)很有幫助,。”
在思考你準(zhǔn)備如何與他人共事,、如何開展合作時(shí),,不要想“我的職位是什么,我要如何按照職位與人們相處?”,,也不要想“對(duì)于我們來說,,好的合作是什么樣子的?”需要考慮的問題可能是:
我們希望從這個(gè)項(xiàng)目中得到什么(目標(biāo)和可交付成果)?
我們?cè)谶@個(gè)項(xiàng)目中應(yīng)如何分工,,以體現(xiàn)人們的天賦和技能?
我們的職責(zé)如何相互影響?
我們?nèi)绾芜M(jìn)行溝通?
我們?nèi)绾巫龀鰶Q定?
如果有人沒有達(dá)到我們的期望,我們?nèi)绾巫寣?duì)方承擔(dān)責(zé)任?
逐一回答這些問題可以幫助你梳理關(guān)于共事協(xié)議,,并把它編入團(tuán)隊(duì)規(guī)范,。
“從一開始就建立問責(zé)制十分重要,這樣在出現(xiàn)問題時(shí),,人們能有解決問題的機(jī)制體系,。要想創(chuàng)立一個(gè)有意義的問責(zé)程序,需要充分理解呵護(hù)合作者的需求,、情況和生活經(jīng)驗(yàn),,這點(diǎn)必不可少?!?/p>
該工具包還提供了在出現(xiàn)有毒因素時(shí)應(yīng)如何處理的實(shí)踐指南,。它引述了Ng?c Loan Tr?n的智慧觀點(diǎn),提倡在出現(xiàn)問題時(shí)應(yīng)呼吁大家共同參與進(jìn)來,,而不是立刻對(duì)當(dāng)事人加以公開斥責(zé),。該工具包提供了如何與你想要繼續(xù)一起合作的人一起處理有毒行為的詳細(xì)信息?!罢业脚c你的團(tuán)隊(duì)成員一起直接處理有毒行為的方法,。1、為學(xué)習(xí)和成長(zhǎng)保留空間,。2,、使用恢復(fù)性司法的方式,。3,、習(xí)慣、重置,、和解,。”這么做不僅僅是為了合理解決每一次的問題,,或者創(chuàng)建一個(gè)無毒的環(huán)境,;也是為了當(dāng)我們把來自不同背景的人聚集在一起合作時(shí),找到解決挑戰(zhàn)的方法,。
最后,,我想向你推薦一部十分精彩的影片,《費(fèi)城地方檢察官》(Philly D.A.),,這是一部關(guān)于拉里?克拉斯納的紀(jì)錄片,,他曾是一名民權(quán)律師和公設(shè)辯護(hù)律師,后來競(jìng)選費(fèi)城地區(qū)檢察官并獲勝,??死辜{目前還在任上,,簡(jiǎn)而言之,辯方已經(jīng)變成了控方,,而他打算改變?cè)摍C(jī)構(gòu)長(zhǎng)期存在的大規(guī)模監(jiān)禁的有毒文化,。
可以想象,要從根本上改變一個(gè)大型政府機(jī)構(gòu)的文化極其困難,,尤其你的大部分手下在過去幾十年里一直是你的對(duì)手,。雖然沒有人比克拉斯納更能看清楚該機(jī)構(gòu)運(yùn)作中存在的問題,但他仍有可能把自己當(dāng)辯護(hù)律師時(shí)的一些挑戰(zhàn)性行為帶到新環(huán)境里,。
該系列對(duì)于理解司法系統(tǒng)的現(xiàn)狀很重要,,但作為一個(gè)研究職場(chǎng)文化又非常關(guān)注人們?nèi)绾胃淖儌鹘y(tǒng)機(jī)構(gòu)的人,我看得十分著迷,??死辜{在上任之初解雇了大約30個(gè)人,沒有提前通知,,幾天內(nèi)也沒有發(fā)表任何聲明,。他的新聞官后來反思說,他們本應(yīng)該用不同方式處理這個(gè)過程,,這樣能更好地引導(dǎo)輿論,。后來,克拉斯納再談到大規(guī)模解雇事件時(shí),,并沒有過多關(guān)注公關(guān),,而是反思了自己行為的局限性。他向波士頓地區(qū)檢察官瑞秋?羅林斯說:“我應(yīng)該要求更多人離職,。它們像扁虱一樣使勁往里鉆,;他們無時(shí)無刻不在搞破壞?!泵恳患愣寄芸吹叫聶C(jī)構(gòu)和被封閉在舊體系中的人之間的動(dòng)態(tài)變化,,而這種變化永遠(yuǎn)都比人們預(yù)想的更加復(fù)雜。
這部由PBS電視臺(tái)制作的八集紀(jì)錄片是必看推薦,,一定能給你一些關(guān)于工作方法和環(huán)境應(yīng)對(duì)之道的思考,,尤其是當(dāng)你在思考如何有目的性地開展下一份工作時(shí)。最初的行為做法往往能奠定基調(diào),,所以想一想,,你希望在新環(huán)境中強(qiáng)化或重置哪些習(xí)慣。你要管理好自己的日常表現(xiàn)以及與人共事的方式方法,。
祝你有個(gè)好狀態(tài),,
珍 (財(cái)富中文網(wǎng))
譯者:Agatha
提問:我想知道如何避免把上一份工作中的感情包袱和不良誘因帶入新的職場(chǎng)。如果是剛剛結(jié)束一段糟糕的感情關(guān)系,可以花一段時(shí)間來恢復(fù),,但職場(chǎng)不行,,我們大多數(shù)人在擺脫了一份糟糕的工作后,沒有恢復(fù)期,。直接就走入到了下一份工作中,。我擔(dān)心的是,在一個(gè)不會(huì)讓員工過度工作的公司,,在一個(gè)我可以信任管理層會(huì)把員工利益最大化的公司,,我反而會(huì)不知道如何處事。最近我和公司里的一個(gè)實(shí)習(xí)生聊了聊,,他們非常清楚應(yīng)當(dāng)在什么時(shí)候,、什么地方明確地劃出自己的界限,這讓我意識(shí)到自己毫無界限感,。
——阿什利
親愛的阿什利,
你之前在那樣的一個(gè)地方工作,,而且沒有過渡期直接就開啟了新工作,真是令人難過,。兇險(xiǎn)的職場(chǎng)比比皆是,;曼努拉?普利斯姆斯在《哈佛商業(yè)評(píng)論》(Harvard Business Review)里寫道:“僅在美國,就有數(shù)百萬人在工作中遇到過霸道的上司和職場(chǎng)霸凌,?!北M管這種情況無處不在,卻并不意味著它們的危害會(huì)因此減少,,我明白你為什么會(huì)思考上份工作對(duì)你的影響以及對(duì)你下一段工作的影響,。
剖析有毒文化對(duì)我們產(chǎn)生的影響很難,但非常重要,,這是我們所有人都要做的事,。我們有責(zé)任反思自己是如何全盤接受那些對(duì)自己和他人產(chǎn)生負(fù)面影響的充滿破壞性的文化標(biāo)準(zhǔn)和行為,不斷加以強(qiáng)化,,還將其體現(xiàn)在了日常行為中,。在你嘗試弄清楚這些負(fù)面影響在你的生活中以何種面目出現(xiàn)時(shí),,我希望你能騰出空間,,仔細(xì)想想它們對(duì)你和你的身體產(chǎn)生了何種影響。當(dāng)你對(duì)自己在下一份工作中如何嶄露頭角滿懷期待時(shí),,想一想要如何有意識(shí)地為那里的文化做出貢獻(xiàn),。
盡管我希望,我僅僅需要告訴你,,在進(jìn)入下一個(gè)角色前你應(yīng)當(dāng)如何利用一段時(shí)間來調(diào)整,,但我知道不是每個(gè)人都能在兩份工作中間擁有長(zhǎng)時(shí)間的假期,因?yàn)楝F(xiàn)實(shí)的生活成本、醫(yī)保需求,、上一份工作離職日期和新工作到崗日期之間的協(xié)調(diào)等等,。盡管如此,我仍然認(rèn)為,,在這個(gè)時(shí)候,,無論如何都要把休息和修復(fù)個(gè)人健康當(dāng)成頭等大事。
如果能在兩份工作之間休息一下,,一定要休息,。時(shí)間越長(zhǎng)越好,但也要量力而行,。如果現(xiàn)在不能休息,,那就在入職頭兩個(gè)月或者一旦有時(shí)間,就安排一些假期,。不同公司的政策不同,,哪怕沒機(jī)會(huì)和老板談在入職前休一個(gè)月假了,仍然可以考慮入職后什么時(shí)候可以休息一下,。哪怕你在前幾個(gè)月只休幾個(gè)長(zhǎng)周末,,等入職5個(gè)月再計(jì)劃休假,也能有所幫助,。給自己留足空間很關(guān)鍵,,只有這樣你才能捋清楚過去的經(jīng)歷,想明白你想在下一份工作中如何表現(xiàn),。
在思考如何騰出時(shí)間來休息和恢復(fù)時(shí),,可以從“小憩部”( Nap Ministry)找找靈感。小憩部由特里西亞?赫西于2016年創(chuàng)立,,相信“小憩具有解放的力量”,,休息是“社區(qū)治療的一種激進(jìn)工具”。小憩部認(rèn)為,,在資本主義制度下,,每個(gè)人因?yàn)橐恢北3稚a(chǎn)力、一直辛苦工作而承受很大壓力,,我們的體制給邊緣化群體造成了不成比例的創(chuàng)傷,,也給我們?cè)斐蓚ΑP№吭谕铺睾虸nstagram上很活躍,,它們的賬號(hào)中有一些小技巧和小提示,,提醒你要找到空間來休息,在你被新工作卷入到新一輪的生產(chǎn)力循環(huán)中之前,,可以把這些賬號(hào)加到自己的訂閱里,,或許會(huì)有所幫助,。
“很多事情都要用心、用身體,、用靈魂去感受,。你不可能通過閱讀、交談和學(xué)習(xí)把一切都弄明白,?!蔽缢勘局茉谕铺厣蠈懙馈D阈枰木褪沁@樣的理念,,我很難找到更恰如其分的表達(dá),。
除了提倡從不停轉(zhuǎn)的工作中抽時(shí)間歇一歇,小憩部還會(huì)分享一些讓你休息,、檢查身體狀態(tài)的小方法,,包括午睡、抽時(shí)間冥想,、尋覓一些安靜時(shí)刻加入一天的固定日常,。這些關(guān)注自我的平靜時(shí)刻十分重要。
但這些時(shí)刻也無法幫助你立即擺脫上一份工作的負(fù)擔(dān),。
“在資本主義世界里,,沒有什么技巧可以讓你一蹴而就,擺脫奮斗文化,,養(yǎng)成休息的習(xí)慣,。也許這就是問題的一部分——我們總是想要“快速見效”的靈丹妙藥。你會(huì)需要一段時(shí)間的舒解期,。休息的時(shí)間到了,。你可以做到的?!焙瘴鹘衲暝缧r(shí)候在Instagram上寫道,。
每天都給自己留點(diǎn)時(shí)間停下來,記住工作之外的時(shí)間才是自己的時(shí)間,。抵制資本主義要求你不?!白觥钡膲毫Γ胍幌朐趺纯梢浴办o”,。只有你自己才可以停下來,,就像只有你才可以在下一份工作中設(shè)定界限、保持界限一樣,。
你似乎已經(jīng)意識(shí)到了,,你在工作上沒有明確的界限,,這已經(jīng)邁出了重要一步,。你離開了一個(gè)有毒的環(huán)境,進(jìn)入了一個(gè)更健康的新環(huán)境,又邁出了重要的一步,。因?yàn)槟阏f你覺得自己的工作界限“不存在”,,從這點(diǎn)上來看,即使你不這么認(rèn)為,,你可能一直在某些方面強(qiáng)化上一份工作中習(xí)以為常的文化規(guī)范,。這點(diǎn)可能很難接受,但我們每個(gè)人都是這樣的,。
這是因?yàn)槁殘?chǎng)文化不是像天氣這樣發(fā)生在我們身上的外部環(huán)境,。我們是它的一部分,我們已經(jīng)融入其中,,我們被動(dòng)地或主動(dòng)地參與了進(jìn)來,。研究表明,如果某些職場(chǎng)的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)層有毒,,會(huì)通過公司文化加以傳播,,受到摧殘的員工往往會(huì)將這種文化內(nèi)化,再傳遞給其他同事,。
《合作,、集體和協(xié)作文化工作工具包》(Toolkit for Cooperative, Collective, & Collaborative Cultural Work)指出,,“通過我們生活在其中的有毒文化,,有毒行為根植于我們體內(nèi)?!边@個(gè)工具包非常有用,,它從個(gè)人優(yōu)先的角度在宏觀層面上識(shí)別有害行為。它是Press Press和Institute for Expanded Research合作項(xiàng)目的一部分,,前者是一個(gè)總部位于巴爾的摩的團(tuán)體,,致力于創(chuàng)建社區(qū)、提高邊緣團(tuán)體的聲音,,后者是一個(gè)由跨屆藝術(shù)家張路(音譯)創(chuàng)立的藝術(shù)項(xiàng)目和研究計(jì)劃,。
Press Press多年來在巴爾的摩開展了出色的工作,我很欣賞他們把價(jià)值觀體現(xiàn)在每個(gè)項(xiàng)目中的做法,。隨著他們把工作從巴爾的摩擴(kuò)展到洛杉磯,,和Institute for Expanded Research進(jìn)行了更廣泛的合作,深入研究了“幫助文化組織者開展集體工作的緊急模型和方法”,,試圖擴(kuò)展和闡明“培養(yǎng)并維持與世界上其他人共處合作時(shí)兼具道德感和同理心的基本準(zhǔn)則所必須的條件”,。該工具包是他們通過合作,向公眾大方提供的產(chǎn)品之一,。
該工具包“以平等,、解放,、正直和差異的價(jià)值觀為基礎(chǔ)”,綜合了來自不同群體關(guān)于協(xié)同工作的建議,。它是一個(gè)思想理論與最佳實(shí)踐的寶庫,,為我們與他人共事提供參考,幫助我們認(rèn)識(shí)到周圍的系統(tǒng)和它們對(duì)我們的影響,。如果你想在工作中以新方式展露崢嶸,,它可以針對(duì)如何建立卓有成效的合作為你提供靈感和戰(zhàn)術(shù)技巧。
你需要努力改掉一些習(xí)慣,,探索一下可以在哪里更好地定義并保持你的邊界,。對(duì)“不存在的界限”的另一種解讀是,你做事缺乏目的性,。該工具包分享了一些實(shí)用的方法,,可以幫助你在工作和你正在創(chuàng)造的文化中劃清責(zé)任,提高目的性,。重要的是要從一開始就設(shè)定期望值,。“在進(jìn)入項(xiàng)目,、集體或工作關(guān)系之前,,一定要訂立合同或共享協(xié)議,”這是工具包的建議,?!昂贤且环N組織工具,是人們之間的協(xié)議,,在工作和我們自己間劃定界限,。合同可以用于問責(zé)。和你的合作者一起設(shè)定目標(biāo),,直接而清晰地列出你的個(gè)人目標(biāo)會(huì)很有幫助,。”
在思考你準(zhǔn)備如何與他人共事,、如何開展合作時(shí),,不要想“我的職位是什么,我要如何按照職位與人們相處?”,,也不要想“對(duì)于我們來說,,好的合作是什么樣子的?”需要考慮的問題可能是:
我們希望從這個(gè)項(xiàng)目中得到什么(目標(biāo)和可交付成果)?
我們?cè)谶@個(gè)項(xiàng)目中應(yīng)如何分工,以體現(xiàn)人們的天賦和技能?
我們的職責(zé)如何相互影響?
我們?nèi)绾芜M(jìn)行溝通?
我們?nèi)绾巫龀鰶Q定?
如果有人沒有達(dá)到我們的期望,,我們?nèi)绾巫寣?duì)方承擔(dān)責(zé)任?
逐一回答這些問題可以幫助你梳理關(guān)于共事協(xié)議,,并把它編入團(tuán)隊(duì)規(guī)范。
“從一開始就建立問責(zé)制十分重要,,這樣在出現(xiàn)問題時(shí),,人們能有解決問題的機(jī)制體系,。要想創(chuàng)立一個(gè)有意義的問責(zé)程序,需要充分理解呵護(hù)合作者的需求,、情況和生活經(jīng)驗(yàn),,這點(diǎn)必不可少,?!?/p>
該工具包還提供了在出現(xiàn)有毒因素時(shí)應(yīng)如何處理的實(shí)踐指南。它引述了Ng?c Loan Tr?n的智慧觀點(diǎn),,提倡在出現(xiàn)問題時(shí)應(yīng)呼吁大家共同參與進(jìn)來,,而不是立刻對(duì)當(dāng)事人加以公開斥責(zé)。該工具包提供了如何與你想要繼續(xù)一起合作的人一起處理有毒行為的詳細(xì)信息,?!罢业脚c你的團(tuán)隊(duì)成員一起直接處理有毒行為的方法。1,、為學(xué)習(xí)和成長(zhǎng)保留空間,。2、使用恢復(fù)性司法的方式,。3,、習(xí)慣、重置,、和解,。”這么做不僅僅是為了合理解決每一次的問題,,或者創(chuàng)建一個(gè)無毒的環(huán)境,;也是為了當(dāng)我們把來自不同背景的人聚集在一起合作時(shí),找到解決挑戰(zhàn)的方法,。
最后,,我想向你推薦一部十分精彩的影片,《費(fèi)城地方檢察官》(Philly D.A.),,這是一部關(guān)于拉里?克拉斯納的紀(jì)錄片,,他曾是一名民權(quán)律師和公設(shè)辯護(hù)律師,后來競(jìng)選費(fèi)城地區(qū)檢察官并獲勝,??死辜{目前還在任上,簡(jiǎn)而言之,,辯方已經(jīng)變成了控方,,而他打算改變?cè)摍C(jī)構(gòu)長(zhǎng)期存在的大規(guī)模監(jiān)禁的有毒文化。
可以想象,,要從根本上改變一個(gè)大型政府機(jī)構(gòu)的文化極其困難,,尤其你的大部分手下在過去幾十年里一直是你的對(duì)手,。雖然沒有人比克拉斯納更能看清楚該機(jī)構(gòu)運(yùn)作中存在的問題,但他仍有可能把自己當(dāng)辯護(hù)律師時(shí)的一些挑戰(zhàn)性行為帶到新環(huán)境里,。
該系列對(duì)于理解司法系統(tǒng)的現(xiàn)狀很重要,,但作為一個(gè)研究職場(chǎng)文化又非常關(guān)注人們?nèi)绾胃淖儌鹘y(tǒng)機(jī)構(gòu)的人,我看得十分著迷,??死辜{在上任之初解雇了大約30個(gè)人,沒有提前通知,,幾天內(nèi)也沒有發(fā)表任何聲明,。他的新聞官后來反思說,他們本應(yīng)該用不同方式處理這個(gè)過程,,這樣能更好地引導(dǎo)輿論,。后來,克拉斯納再談到大規(guī)模解雇事件時(shí),,并沒有過多關(guān)注公關(guān),,而是反思了自己行為的局限性。他向波士頓地區(qū)檢察官瑞秋?羅林斯說:“我應(yīng)該要求更多人離職,。它們像扁虱一樣使勁往里鉆,;他們無時(shí)無刻不在搞破壞?!泵恳患愣寄芸吹叫聶C(jī)構(gòu)和被封閉在舊體系中的人之間的動(dòng)態(tài)變化,,而這種變化永遠(yuǎn)都比人們預(yù)想的更加復(fù)雜。
這部由PBS電視臺(tái)制作的八集紀(jì)錄片是必看推薦,,一定能給你一些關(guān)于工作方法和環(huán)境應(yīng)對(duì)之道的思考,,尤其是當(dāng)你在思考如何有目的性地開展下一份工作時(shí)。最初的行為做法往往能奠定基調(diào),,所以想一想,,你希望在新環(huán)境中強(qiáng)化或重置哪些習(xí)慣。你要管理好自己的日常表現(xiàn)以及與人共事的方式方法,。
祝你有個(gè)好狀態(tài),,
珍 (財(cái)富中文網(wǎng))
譯者:Agatha
Q: I'm wondering how to avoid bringing the emotional baggage and toxic-workplace triggers from a previous job into a new one. If you end a bad relationship, you can take some time to recover, but that's not something most of us can do after getting out of a bad job. You dive straight into the next one. I'm worried that I don't know how to function in a workplace that doesn't gaslight its staff into overwork and where I can trust senior management to have their employees' best interests at heart. I had a conversation with one of our interns recently, and they were just so very good at knowing where and when to explicitly draw their boundaries, which made me realize how non-existent my own are.
—Ashley
Dear Ashley,
I’m sorry that you’ve been working in a place that has felt this way and that you’re jumping right into your next job. Toxic workplaces are rampant; in the U.S. alone, “millions of people face abusive supervisors and bullies at work,” writes Manuela Priesemuth for Harvard Business Review. The fact that they’re pervasive doesn’t make them any less harmful, and I see why you’re thinking about how this place has affected you and what it might mean in your next position.
Unpacking how toxic cultures affect us is hard work, but it is crucial work, and it is all of our work. We have a duty to reflect on how we internalize, reinforce, and embody damaging cultural standards and behaviors that negatively affect ourselves and others. As you work through how this is showing up in your own life, I want you to make space for better understanding how this is affecting you and your body. As you look forward to how you’ll show up in your next job, think about how you’ll be intentional in how you contribute to the culture there.
While I wish I could focus solely on how you should take all the time you need before moving to your next role, I know that not everyone can take substantial time off between jobs because of the realities of costs of living, healthcare needs, and coordinating the end date of one job with the needed start date at the next one. That said, I do think that it’s critical that you make rest and restoring your personal health a priority at this time, however you can.
If you can take a break between jobs, please do. The more time the better, but take what you can. If you can’t take a break now, plan some vacation time within your first two months or as soon as you can get some time on the books. Employers have different policies, and while it might be too late to negotiate taking a month off in between jobs, you can still look into when you can take time once you get started. Even if you only take a couple long weekends in the first couple months, and you book a vacation for five months in, you’ll be better off. Having space is critical to processing what you’ve been through and for you to get perspective on how you’re showing up in your next job.
One inspiration for you as you think about how you can make time to rest and reclaim yourself is the Nap Ministry. Founded by Tricia Hersey in 2016, the Nap Ministry believes in the “l(fā)iberatory power of naps'' and rest as “a radical tool for community healing.” The Nap Ministry acknowledges the burden under capitalism for everyone to be productive and grind all the time, the disproportionate trauma inflicted on marginalized groups by the systems we live in, and the damage that this does to us. The Nap Ministry is active on Twitter and Instagram, where you can find tips and reminders to make space for rest, which might be helpful for you to add to your feed before you get sucked into the productivity cycle at your new job.
“So many things have to be felt with the heart, the body, the soul. You will not be able to figure everything out by reading, talking and studying,” the Nap Ministry wrote on Twitter this week and I couldn’t have asked for a better insight to pass along to you while you need to hear it.
In addition to advocating for breaks from productive work, the Nap Ministry shares small ways you can take rest and check in with your body, from taking naps, to making time for meditation, to quiet moments you can build into your day. These moments of calm and self care are important.
But those moments are also not going to help you shed the burdens from your past job immediately.
“There are no quick tips for deprogramming from grind culture and crafting a rest practice in a capitalist world. Maybe that’s part of the problem- we want ‘quick’ magic bullets all the time. You will be unraveling for a while. The time to rest is now. Anyway you can,” Hersey wrote in an Instagram post earlier this year.
Make space throughout your days to pause and remember that your time outside of work is your time. Resist the pressure under capitalism to “do” all the time, and focus on how you can just “be.” You’re the only one that can take the time off, just like you’re the only one who can set and hold the boundaries that you have in your next job.
That you seem to realize that you didn’t have many boundaries with work is an important step. And moving into a new environment that is less toxic than the one that you’re leaving is another important step. Since you said you feel your own work boundaries are “non-existent” that tells me that even if you don’t see yourself this way, there are ways that you may have been reinforcing some of the cultural norms that were common where you worked. That can be hard to accept, but it’s also true that we all do it.
That’s because workplace culture isn’t just something that happens to us, like the weather. It is something we are a part of, that we are woven into, that we either passively or actively participate in. Research shows that in workplaces where leadership is toxic, it gets spread throughout the culture and that employees who receive abuse often internalize it and pass it along to other colleagues.
According to the Toolkit for Cooperative, Collective, & Collaborative Cultural Work, “toxic behavior is embedded in us through the toxic culture we live in.” This toolkit is a useful resource because it identifies toxic behavior on a macro level from a person-first perspective. It’s part of a collaborative effort from Press Press, a Baltimore-based collective deeply committed to building community and amplifying marginalized voices, and the Institute for Expanded Research, an artist project and research initiative founded by multi-disciplinary Lu Zhang.
I’ve seen the awesome work that Press Press has done in Baltimore for years, and I love how they embody their values in every project they create. As they expanded their work beyond Baltimore to Los Angeles, they undertook the broader collaborative project with the Institute for Expanded Research, digging into “emergent models and methodologies for collective work that aid in the efforts of cultural organizers” which seek to expand on and elucidate “the conditions necessary for cultivating and sustaining ethical and compassionate frameworks for being with and cooperating with others in the world.” The Toolkit is one of the generous offerings to the public from their collaboration.
The Toolkit synthesizes recommendations from a diverse group of people focused on collaborative work, “grounded in the values of equity, liberation, integrity, and difference.” It provides a treasure trove of ideas and best practices for working with folks, recognizing the systems that we operate within and how they affect us. If you want to find new ways of showing up in your work, this will give you inspiration and tactical tips on how to set up fruitful collaborations.
Committing to unlearning some of your habits and exploring where you can better define and hold your boundaries is part of your work. Another way to think about your “non-existent boundaries” is as a lack of intentionality around what you’re doing. The Toolkit shares practical ways you can build accountability and intentionality into your work and the culture you’re creating at work. Setting expectations is critical from the outset. “Always create contracts or shared agreements before entering the project, collective, or working relationship,” the Toolkit recommends. “Contracts are an organizational tool. They are agreements between people for setting boundaries for the work and ourselves. They can be used for accountability processes. It’s helpful to set intentions together with your collaborators and lay out your personal goals directly and clearly.”
When setting your intentions about how you are going to work and collaborate with folks, think beyond, “What is my job title and how does that determine how I engage with people?” to “What does a good collaboration look like for us?” Some questions to consider might be:
What do we want to come out of this project (goals and deliverables)?
How do we set up the roles in this project in a way that speaks to people’s talent and skills?
How do our roles impact each other?
How are we going to communicate with each other?
How will we make decisions?
How will we hold each other accountable if someone isn’t meeting our expectations?
Working through these questions can help you create an agreement about how you work together and codify them into team norms.
“Establishing an accountability process from the start is important so folks have a system for addressing issues as they arise. Being tender and understanding to your collaborators’ needs, conditions, and life experiences is essential to any meaningful accountability process,” says the Toolkit.
The Toolkit also gives practical guidance around how to deal with toxicity when it shows up. Pointing to the wisdom of Ng?c Loan Tr?n, who advocates for calling folks in, instead of immediately calling someone out publicly when something happens, the Toolkit provides details on how to work through toxic behavior with people you want to keep working and collaborating with. “Find ways of addressing toxic behavior directly with your group members. 1. Hold space for learning and growth. 2. Apply a restorative justice approach, 3. Ritual, reset and reconcile.” The work isn’t just about getting it right every time, or going somewhere where toxicity doesn’t exist. It’s also about finding ways to work through the challenges that show up when we bring people with diverse experiences together to collaborate.
Lastly, I want to leave you with a viewing recommendation: Philly D.A., the fascinating docuseries on Larry Krasner, a former civil rights attorney and public defender who ran for District Attorney of Philadelphia and won. Krasner is currently in office and in short, the defense has become the prosecution and is intent on changing the office’s longstanding, toxic culture of mass incarceration.
As you might imagine, it is incredibly hard to radically change the culture in a large government office, especially when many of the people who work for you were previously working against you, for decades. And while no one was more equipped to see the problems of how the office operates than Krasner, that also doesn’t mean he doesn’t bring his own challenging behaviors from his old job as a defense attorney.
The series is important for understanding the realities of the justice system, but I’m also fascinated by it as a person who studies work culture and who cares a lot about how you change legacy institutions. Krasner fires about 30 people early into his tenure without much notice and without making any statements about it for days. His press officer later reflects that they should have handled the process differently so they could be more in control of the narrative. When Krasner touches on the mass firings later, he isn’tt focused on the PR fallout but on the limits of his actions. He told Boston District Attorney Rachael Rollins, "I should have asked more to go. They dig in like ticks; they undermine you at every turn." You see the dynamics play out between the new administration and people entrenched in how the system has traditionally worked play out in every episode and it is always more complicated than anyone could have predicted.
The eight-part series on PBS is a must-watch and is certain to give you some food for thought on approach and navigating work environments, especially as you think about how you can approach your next job with intentionality. What you do early on can often set the tone, so think about what habits you want to reinforce or reset in this new environment. You get to be in control of how you show up and work with folks every day.
Sending you lots of good vibes,
Jen