Name: How To Solve 5 Common Workplace Problems
Uploaded: 2022-10-31T19:05:40.000Z
Duration: 19 min 28 s
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Hi James, I'm gonna actually help you with that.

Now whether you work in north America Ireland Australia or you're in your own country, we all have workplace problems.

We have situations in which someone is treating you in a way that you need to fix or resolve, resolve means you know fix basically you're gonna fix this problem otherwise at least the greater problems, maybe you won't be satisfied at work or your employer won't be happy with you.

An example could be uh you have somebody at work who thinks they're your boss and they're gonna try and tell you what to do or how you should do it, but they don't pay you.

And if you listen to them you might lose that job.

They give you five different common workplace problems you might run into.

I'll give you a solution by giving you a couple of phrases or sentences that you can use.

The two things are this number one, you're not gonna deal with somebody else's problems like you will solve this thing now.

But number two you are professional right?

Because you know you work on a team and you have to work together whether you know after this situation, whatever it is and they know that they can work with you because you will not disrespect them.

But you're also saying don't disrespect me.

We're gonna go to the board and I'll give you five common ones.

There may be other ones that I haven't touched upon but these ones that usually come up trust me you're probably gonna go, oh yeah and I don't care if it's in english, you might be at your own company, you might be in Argentina going that happened last week in spanish.

So let's go to the board shall we thank you for bringing these up.

So the first one I want to talk about is when your employer is adding to your work and you go, yeah well my employer always has.

In this particular case you have you were hired for a job.

If you're a photographer that's your job.

When they say okay now when you finish taking the pictures can you please take the garbage out and then we wipe the floors down.

You're like well that's that's not on my contract.

Now you can't say to your boss no that's not my contract.

Sure you can you can say it and you've watched the people have done it, they say it and then they lose their job or they get in trouble or further problems.

This is something you can say that lets the boss know that I'm open to doing extra stuff but I also need, I need to be compensated which means paid appropriately for doing this or given another title or something.

And that's why I said they will give you respect that you're saying sure I'll do it, I'm part of the team but respect me.

This is not part of my current and this is the important part because your responsibilities of what you signed on to do the job.

So if they want to give you something new, you're saying hey this is not part of my current responsibilities.

But if this is an opportunity to expand my role in the company, I would be happy to entertain reworking my contract which means hey look if you want to give me more responsibility, I'm happy to do.

So if I get extra compensation or more pay, if I get these more responsibilities I get more privileges in some way shape or form.

So when your employer is saying, hey can you do this, you're like sure let's negotiate.

We talked about your employer giving you work.

Well sometimes there's somebody your colleague colleague means someone you work with, they are acting like your boss.

You sit side by side of the desk, you're this exact same.

But suddenly they're like hey johnson we need to get this thing done by Tuesday how long it's gonna take you to do it and you're like, you're not my boss, you can't tell me you need it and done by this time or that time.

So then what you're going to do is this, you're gonna use this sentence.

This will help once again put you in a position with them in a position where you were saying, hey look, we work together.

I don't want this to be an unfriendly relationship, but we have to know where the line is, the barriers, the partition, right?

Like this is where you work, this is where I work, you're not my boss, you're not above me were the same.

But you can't just say it like that, that might cause some animosity, which is anger.

So we'll say this instead, okay, if someone starts telling you, hey, you need to do this, this and this, you say very quickly, so you want them to respect, you go, hey, you'll need to figure out another way to get that or it's whatever it is, that project or this project it done.

I'm busy with my own work and I can't help you, meaning that's your work, this is my work, I'm doing my responsibilities.

You need to do your responsibilities, okay, now, if it's your boss is different, they could say, hey, you need to do this, but you're not my boss, so I got work to do, figure out how you're gonna get your own work done because generally when someone's acting like your boss, they're usually trying to give you their work, stop that right away.

Someone acting like your boss and I've seen that tens of times.

Um now number three to stop someone from continuously interrupting you.

This could be at a meeting, like a formal meeting, this could be actually colleagues working and talking together and then someone you're speaking and then someone just interrupted and I think this and da da da da da da da da da da da, they just start talking and your, you know your, it's your turn to speak and this is a professional environment, this isn't you at home with your sisters and brothers are a couple of friends, you're having a couple of beers and you're just talking, it doesn't matter.

It does matter if the company, if you cannot communicate in a company, a company cannot succeed if the company cannot succeed, you all lose your jobs.

So one of the first things you have to remember is respect that if someone speaking, allow them to say their ideas, get it out there and if you have something to say add afterwards not to stop them from actually saying anything because you think your ideas are better because you don't know yours might not be better.

So in this case someone is interrupting you continuously, what do you do?

The first thing you want to do is thank them.

I did a previous video before when I said something like you can steal a conversation by saying something like uh you know you're right or well that's an interesting opinion you have and what you're doing is you're stealing the conversation by sort of giving a compliment to someone in a way.

And because of that they give you their attention once they give you their attention, other people give your attention and then you can take the conversation back.

So you don't want to say, you know just anything we want to make it such that the intention comes back and that person feels validated.

You're making me like, hey what you did was a great contribution.

But I'm gonna say that to get the attention back and then I'm going to address what happened.

But we're saying, hey no no no no no we don't play this game.

That's gonna be a problem, share this, share the space, share the air.

So we start off with thank you for sharing.

I'm thanking you, you're interrupting me and I'm thanking but thank you for sharing your insights insights like your ideas or your views or what have you john or bob address them directly.

You don't want to just say that and then they think you're talking to everyone.

So you're like thank you for sharing your insights, john done, done, done and look at them so they know you are interrupting me but please wait until I'm finished sharing my thoughts before you continue and you're also giving them back the floor.

So you're saying, hey look I do want to hear, I do want to hear what you have to say.

Just let me finish what I have to say first.

Then I'm happy to listen to you, I'm gonna share and I want you to share.

Get their attention, address them, make sure they know who you're talking to them, Tell them what they're doing wrong in a nice way and then tell them.

But I will play nicely and I'll let you have the floor when I'm done.

Alright number four to get to the point in a long conversation, anybody who knows me and if you watch my videos long enough I start off somewhere and then I go, what was I talking about and you have to remind me, we're gonna stop that stuff right now.

It's actually kind of good because it makes sure this particular sentence is, make sure that you're actually also paying attention and this is the respect angle you're paying attention to the actual conversation.

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