Frida Metso

Being nice is tiring

Are you often interrupted by your colleagues for social reasons? Discuss with one another how a friendly culture can be maintained without negatively affecting your stress level. Define a behavior: how can we signal a neutral way that we don’t have time to talk right now?

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Being nice is tiring

We want our door to be always open to our colleagues – but what does that do to us? Gloria Mark and her associates discovered that interruptions do not affect quality or the time it takes to finish a task. On the other hand, it affects our health – we work faster and experience greater stress and frustration in order to make up for the interruption. How do you give yourself more control over your work situation without ruining the friendly atmosphere?

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Not reporting errors is only human

What reception is given to colleagues who call attention to their own mistakes or the mistakes of others and report accidents and risks? List three ways of encouraging employees to report problems. This can be, for example, a matter of how you react in the moment or how you report back to the group on what effect the accident report has had.

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Find a helpful role model

Write down at least three actions promoting relationships that you have seen a colleague do and that you appreciated and would like to see more of. This could be, for example, giving a compliment or offering to take on some work for a stressed colleague.

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How do you treat your colleagues?

Consider your reception of your colleagues. Do you act toward others in a way that you would take offense to? Write down three behaviors that you wish to end or change.

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