6 More Ways to Counter Back-Stabbers!

Back­stab­bers are always the lurk­ing dan­ger in the work­place.  We don’t have all the time to catch all of them else nobody will be doing actual work in the office!  Fur­ther­more, any­one can become a back stab­ber as time passes or a series of events hap­pen­ing to the poten­tial indi­vid­ual.  That is why, it is more impor­tant to focus our energy to become less likely tar­gets of poten­tial back stab­bers or deter their neg­a­tive emo­tions against us.  Pre­vi­ously, we have men­tioned 5 pre­ven­tive mea­sures against them.  In this post, we have an addi­tional six to get you pre­pared against them.

1. Keep your emails – The most sim­ple thing you can do at work.  Keep all your email con­ver­sa­tions and archive them if you run out of space.  These elec­tronic emails will be use­ful as evi­dences and proofs against biased remarks made against you in the event that calls for it! J
2. Doc­u­ment all con­ver­sa­tions in the work­place – Doc­u­ment all ver­bal and phone con­ver­sa­tions in an email and send it to the party that you spoke to get their con­sen­sus on the con­ver­sa­tion con­tent.  Being the same as keep­ing emails, it will become use­ful as evi­dences and proofs in future!
3. Be sure to have some­one to standby you in any major deci­sions make – Find some­one to back you up in any deci­sions you make.  Why?  First, you want to have a wit­ness in your deci­sion and when things go against you, you have a wit­ness to standy you.  Sec­ondly, you may not be able to make a major deci­sion alone.  If you do, you might get your­self into trou­ble and that may be used against you in future.  There­fore, get some­one to share the risk with you!  If it involves man­age­ment, the trou­ble­maker will have to think twice as there are con­se­quences to it. J  (Part of deter­ring these trou­ble­mak­ers is to make them think of the con­se­quences and the risk ver­sus effort taken)
4. Attempt to cov­ered most of your loop holes in your work – We can­not cover all the risks.  But at your best effort, cover all risk and loop holes.  You do not want to be uncov­ered of loop holes by your back stab­ber, right?
5. Always hang around with the “neu­tral” guys of the organ­i­sa­tion – Avoid the “bad” or “loud” guys of the organ­i­sa­tion.  It’s birds of the same feather fly­ing in a flock.  Gen­er­ally, “bad” or “loud” groups tend to be at some kind of office power com­pe­ti­tion (of any kind).  There­fore, you can avoid being becom­ing a pawn in the strug­gle by not join­ing the group.  How­ever, hav­ing said that, it’s still up to indi­vid­ual pref­er­ence on their social cir­cle. J
6. Be neu­tral in most sit­u­a­tions – Being friendly and not sid­ing to any­one leaves you safe from most office power strug­gle.  If you do have a point you want to drive across, be firm but at the same time give room for alter­na­tives to those poten­tial back stab­bers.  Give them options to choose that will ben­e­fi­cial to them.  If you do not do that, you may end up mak­ing ene­mies instead!

Related Posts

• Don’t Judge the Book by its Look!
• Let’s Be Individualistic!
• How Do You Get Your Peers to Like You?
• How Approach­able Are You in the Eyes of Your Peers?
• Fire Your Boss! Change Your Job!
• Does Your Boss Likes You?
• 5 Pre­ven­tive Mea­sures Against Backstabbing!
• 8 Tell-Tale Signs That You will be the Next to Go!
• Ready for Another Reces­sion (and Retrenchment)?
• Don’t Do Dumb Things!