5 Horrible Mistakes Indians Do At Workplace

Bangalore: Every employee, be it a senior or a junior employee end up doing unnecessary mistakes at the workplace. Professionals who have started with their new job are the one who commit more mistakes at the workplace, as they will be still at the learning stage which needs some quality time.  These mistakes can be corrected as they start learning about the correct way.

If you are a career enthusiast for sure you will be learning from those mistakes instead of just feeling guilty for the mistake that might lead you towards a wrong way in the future career path. Piyush Bhatia, the Corporate Communication trainer

as well as the Founder and CEO of BM English speaking, listed out few of the horrible mistakes that the Indian professionals do at the workplace and he has also stated few quality solutions to avoid these deadly mistakes as it was reported on the Rediff website.

5.  No proper eye-contact:

A proper-eye contact with the person you are talking will be considered as you are confident about what you are talking. Without a proper eye-contact, it will be regarded as that you feel shy while interacting with others. Most of the Indian professionals will do the mistake of not interacting with the co-workers or the boss with a proper eye-contact.

According to Piyush, a proper eye-contact of the speaker with the listener will be helpful for the speaker to understand the mind of the listener as well as it helps to build a good personal relationship with that person. So, if you are not a social person who doesn’t like to interact much with the people, it can be a big problem for you when you enter your professional life. So, to avoid such circumstances, try practicing in front of the mirror and learn how to make your eye-contact perfect while communicating.

4. Not paying much attention to what others tell:

This is the most ridiculous mistake that any professional can do in the workplace. It doesn’t matter whether you are a junior or a senior, it is your duty to hear what others tell you or suggest you at the workplace. If you are a senior, it doesn’t mean that you can neglect what your juniors tell or give ideas to you for the progress of the company. As you have become a senior at the company, definitely you will be having an idea on how to work on towards the company’s progress, but it is also good if you listen to others opinion as well, be it your juniors or your seniors at the company, as there is no harm in it.

If you want to take the credit as a good supervisor, you need to work along as a team with your team members in friendly manner than just bossing upon them every time. Piyush tells that there is a big difference between hearing and listening, as hearing stands for just nodding your head without understanding anything on what others talk, listening stands for the capacity to understand what others talk with you. So, be a good listener at the company.

3. Interrupting every time:

This habit of interrupting in-between the talks make the others feel annoying and irritated not only in the workplace but also in a general context. This quality of interrupting is adapted by most of the Indians, and they knowingly or unknowingly commit this mistake every time. These kind of people are been tagged as the most irritated people by everyone all the time. So, if you wish to come out of that tag name, start adapting the habit of controlling your interruption when two others are talking in your presence.

Interrupting someone in-between will lead them to forget what they were talking about. If you want to talk to a person anytime, firstly make sure you won’t interrupt that person in-between when he or she is talking to another person. At these situations, it is better to wait for your turn till the person whom you want to talk to is free to talk with you. In your office, if you are attending any meeting and if you want the person who is conducting the meeting listen to you, instead of interrupting in-between his or her talks, it’s better to lift your hand so that it is visible for the person to look towards you and gives you permission to talk. 

2. Not being in contact:

Being silent is good only in few situations. But the silence is not at all good when it comes to your workplace and your professional work. Many professionals make the mistake of not informing the HR department when they take leave or come a bit late. This habit of the employees makes the employers feel that you are careless and ignorant. Apart from that, it is your duty to inform the concerned person whenever you are going out for any of your official work or any of your personal issues in-between the working hours.

If you are least bothered about informing the concerned person, you might be warned for two to three times but at the fourth time you might be asked to quit the job. So, try not to create any such circumstances in your professional life. Inform your team lead or the HR department of the company that you will be not coming to office or you will be a bit late to reach. If you receive any calls from the company’s side related to work, make sure you answer the call whatever the circumstance is, or else you might be in trouble the next day when you report to work.

1.   Not concerned about the audience:

If you want to be an effective speaker, then you must know how to make your speech in an interesting way that keeps your audience onboard. If you want to become an effective communicator, it is your responsibility to know what your listeners want to hear from you. In the same way, in a workplace, if you are attending a meeting where you are asked to present your opinion or ideas to the company’s heads, you need to be very accurate and to the point on what you are presenting. It should be prepared in a very essential and effective manner so that the listeners [company heads] understand what you wanted to tell them as well as they got what they wanted to hear from your side. You need to be to the point and objective while speaking, instead of being too technical and subjective.

If you want to make sure that your audience are understanding what you are saying, it better to stop in-between your speech and ask them few questions related to what you have spoken about. During this time, they might give you the right answer or they might fail sometimes. So, if they haven’t understood want you have spoken, then it is you who needs to make sure your presentation is more clear and easier for them to understand.