kav
Outstanding Member
Anyone else struggle with this at work? I get that it's a necessary thing, that office politics are neither good nor bad, they're just a neutral reality that you can use in a positive or negative way. My boss keeps telling me that at the level I'm at in the organisation I need to be more politically savvy, which as far as I can tell amounts to looking for the agenda in everything people say...
I'm a fairly straightforward person and have no interest in senior leadership (director and above) so don't really have the compulsion to spend much time on this stuff. Unfortunately it's true that once you reach a certain level of seniority in an organisation it's pretty much essential to have that awareness of people's motives and where they fit in in the scheme of things. So has anyone got any tips?
(Oh and I can use google, I'm not talking about "top ten tips for being politically savvy" from buzzfeed or whatever, I'm talking about knowledge from personal experience if possible.)
*Waits for IMBW to turn up and say "become a contractor".*
I'm a fairly straightforward person and have no interest in senior leadership (director and above) so don't really have the compulsion to spend much time on this stuff. Unfortunately it's true that once you reach a certain level of seniority in an organisation it's pretty much essential to have that awareness of people's motives and where they fit in in the scheme of things. So has anyone got any tips?
(Oh and I can use google, I'm not talking about "top ten tips for being politically savvy" from buzzfeed or whatever, I'm talking about knowledge from personal experience if possible.)
*Waits for IMBW to turn up and say "become a contractor".*