5 Preventive Measures Against Backstabbing!

Back­stab­bing occurs every­where in all work­place.  You maybe unknow­ingly back stab by peo­ple that you do not know, you know, or even closed col­leagues.  You do not really know who are your friend and foe.  Friends can be foes as well if you are not care­ful too! There­fore, it is essen­tial to learn key sur­vival skills against these under­ly­ing dan­gers lurk­ing in the work­place.  We want to pro­tect our­selves against them.  You never know who are the two-headed snake and sly foxes that are schem­ing to cause dis­rup­tion to your career.  Here, we have five pre­ven­tive mea­sures against back­stab­bing before it really happens.

1. Be sure of what you are doing – Always be sure of what you are doing.  Be sure of what you are han­dling.  If you do not know what you are doing, it’s advis­able to find out more and be sure about it.  You do not want to be caught being vul­ner­a­ble with being unclear of what you are doing, right?
2. Be sure of what is going on around you – That is, being sen­si­tive to the sur­round­ing, the going-on of the organ­i­sa­tion, the man­age­ment, the peo­ple, and your peers.  You want to be aware of the sit­u­a­tion around you and not be vul­ner­a­ble for your lack of aware­ness in the organisation.
3. Be hum­ble on your achieve­ments – Do not go around the office and tell every­one about your achieve­ments and suc­cess story.  Ok you may not be shout­ing out to every­one, BUT are you in every con­ver­sa­tion with your peers, try­ing to inject the topic of your indi­vid­ual suc­cess into it?  If you are, curb that habit!  Be hum­ble and mod­est about it.  Let other’s know your suc­cess sto­ries through words from your peers, not you!
4. Be always on your feet to sharpen your skills – Do always take time to improve your­self and skills.  Bring your skill sets to another level or learn another area of exper­tise.  The more pro­fi­cient and knowl­edge­able you are in your field of exper­tise and expe­ri­ence, the less “sur­face areas” for the trou­ble­mak­ers to use your pro­fi­ciency to exploit as a point of weak­ness.  Also with a new skill sets being acquired, you are more knowl­edge­able and pre­pared against their schem­ing attacks!
5. Be always increas­ing and improv­ing your rela­tion­ship with your col­leagues – Do always increase your net­work of friends.  Also take time to improve and main­tain the exist­ing ones.  You want to knit a stronger and wider net­work that you can have sup­port from.  With this net­work, you would have also estab­lished your­self a strong cre­den­tial in the organ­i­sa­tion.  This is a pre­ven­tive mea­sure against indi­vid­u­als that want to exploit your weak cre­den­tials in the organ­i­sa­tion.  With a strong cre­den­tial, they will not be able to exploit that easily.

These are pre­ven­tive mea­sures against prospec­tive back­stab­bers.  There will be other meth­ods of pre­ven­tion as well but the list will cer­tainly help you fend off or deter most trou­ble­mak­ers.  What is your method of pre­ven­tion against backstabbers?

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