Yes, we all have had them for the greatest and worst moments in life as well as at our workplace. The good thing of experiencing these feelings is to have different emotions so when you face it again in the future you feel “‘just-another-one”. 🙂
What are the moments I feel greatest, happiest at my workplace?
By having different roles at work, we take certain responsibilities. For me, I feel great to sign a deal with a customer and I feel greater to hear the compliment of our customers on our successful deliveries (as we are providing engineering services). As you may know: the success of our customer being our success. Of course, being enjoyed those moments is the result of the great effort of our team.
Another moment I could recall of a few years ago when we had a company lunch together of a group of about 30 people. Yes, I felt very happy with such a nice group and united team eating, smiling and enjoying a simple lunch. You know I was proud to be the contributor to building such the team from scratch! 🙂
Although those are the great moments but not the happiest one at work. The moment I felt happiest was to observe our members performing excellently, putting their dedication to team-work and growing to become servant leaders in our organization.
what do you think why I felt greatest for this achievement of our members?
You can google this keyword “servant leader” to find out more. 🙂
and what are the moments I felt sad and worst at work?
It is not about a high performing person leaving the company nor we delivered not according to the expectations for our customer. The first is sometimes good for people to explore in a new environment: new challenges, another culture, working with new colleagues and experiencing another boss. Those are good experiences for them in their life as we can’t take responsibility for the whole future life of the people. The second is also an experience of failure for our team to perform better tomorrow.
Another moment, I was very sad to receive a resignation letter from one of our best engineers just… one day before our Vietnamese-New-Year… sadly, it was not a good moment for both of us but then I totally understood of those requests from his new employer. I still felt grateful that life gave me that experience for the first time and next time I won’t feel sad again! I felt sorry for him that his ‘immature’ decision was not scoring on the eyes of his new employer.
While many people hearing this advice: — “Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to.”- Richard B. Would you feel worst when someone left the company even after you (1) gave the people many opportunities for training even spent your learning budget for the other learning activities (2) treated them not bad, I think even much better compared to many other people in the office… sometimes spending also my own pocket to express thanks on their special occasions (3) made a career plan for them for taking important roles in the company? Yes, I was very sad but not the worst, definitely! I just had to accept this-relationship-at-work that I should not expect any gratefulness, at least a little… (a lesson learned: if you don’t expect anything, then you don’t get disappointed.),
The worst moment at work is when I took the decision to stop someone who had performed below par with a previous warning or had been behaving not according to our work ethics.
Hold on a few seconds on giving a deep breath before reading this helpful post.
In conclusion, whatever it is a good or bad day at your workplace, you should still feel grateful to experience those moments!
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