Conversations

Do you ever wonder how much work actually gets done and how much conversation that has nothing to do with work gets done?

Seriously many days go by where we are either locked away in meetings, in our office working on a project or out of the office on business. But when we come through you hear a complete switch of what it happening in the office. Some days it just goes from a loud roar to dead quiet. some days it goes from one subject to another, and some days it nothing changes and people keep talking about this or that which has absolutely nothing to do with work.

So let me point out that you are at work to, well WORK. if you want to talk about work to learn from each other it is fine but you need to get your work done. If you want to sit and complain that you do not have enough time to get your work done and we hear you talking all day about subject matter that has nothing to do with work, well guess what…. that’s right at review time it will show. So instead of talking about nothing all day get to work, if you think we are not watching think again. If you believe we do not care about what you do you are correct up to a point because as long as ALL the work gets done we are pretty happy but this is just doing the minimum amount of work required so you can bet that it will show up on your review. But if in fact you actually do your work and then do some more work even if only to better yourself with business related topics that will show you care and want to do more. And it will show up on your review. So instead of talking about nothing all day and then ‘not having enough time’ well go bugger off!!!

For the people that always go the extra step and the little bit more yes that’s right you will benefit and get ahead. For those of you that do just the bare minimum well you will stay at the bare minimum and do not try and talk your way into more because it will just not happen.