Career Advice - How To Make Gossip Work For You

This title deserves an explanation, otherwise I will take leave of my senses ... or at least I'm off-the-wall contrarian.

Ok, in a perfect world gossipers would not exist, but we all know the world has a lot of imperfections. Gossip and gossipers are here to stay. Deal with it.

survey research firm known as ISR showed that 63% of U.S. employees get all or most of their information about their companies from "water-cooler conversation ".

The fact is that every workplace works with two channels of communication. One official kanal.Drugi is known by various names:. Gossip, rumors and grapevine

official channel to which the employer's version of the objectives and procedures of the organization, rules of the road, if you will, is laid out strana.Trač mill is a place where you can hear what their peers think of these plans, along with their assessment of them and those who they were sent dalje.Glasina mill gives more, ranging from malicious and personal attacks on the harmless chatter about who is flirting with whom, and what is on sale at the local center.

separate the wheat from the chaff

I do not want to be cynical, but the conclusion is obvious. Gossip will exist whether or not to participate, and this will include some nourishing wheat along with a lot of worthless chaff. If you are not connected to the back channel, as well as the official channel, you will be isolated. Therefore, you will not know what is happening in an environment where you work. If you do not score, you can not succeed.

Here are six steps you can take in order to separate the outrageous chatter from the meaningful information, so the gossip mill works in your favor:

1 Do not waste your time jousting with windmills. Recognize you can not eliminate gossip, even if it's garbage. But I also know that if you try to close the rumor mill will cut the loop of information

2 Tune the turmoil that specializes in personality, especially malicious stories that are not harmful to people and organizations who are employed.

3 Feed positive news in the grapevine at every opportunity.

4 Be aware of the gossip about the workplace. To confirm or rule it out.

5 Identify the most active purveyors of gossip. Rank them according to their reliability and interpret their messages for what they are.

6 Confront the driver and set the record straight, if the gossip is about you and it's true.