当你在拟订今年的目标时，别忘了回顾一下你的职场生活。你可以做出哪些改进，来让自己在工作中变得更有创造力、更令人愉快?接下来，小编给大家准备了如何改正工作坏习惯,欢迎大家参考与借鉴。

　　如何改正工作坏习惯

　　Experts offer this list of common bad habits at work -- and how to break them:

　　专家们列举了工作中普遍存在的陋习，以及改正它们的方法:

　　 Planning poorly. Do you spend your first hour at work wondering what you should work on today? "So many people, when they leave their office at 4 to 6 pm, really have no clue what they're going to do first thing the following morning," said Glenn Davis, president of the Next Step Group, which recruits sales and sales management professionals for software and other companies. It's more efficient to plan your next day before you leave work.

　　计划性差。你是不是每天都要在办公室先花上一个小时考虑该做什么? Next Step Group公司总裁Glenn Davis说：“很多人在下午4-6点离开办公室时，对第二天一早要做什么一点头绪也没有。下班前为第二天做个计划会提高效率。”Next Step Group公司专门替软件公司及其它公司招聘销售及销售管理人员。

　　 Spending the day in "email reaction mode." Answering every email message as it comes in may make you seem responsive, but it's not productive. "You feel like you're being a hero because you're dealing1 with all your email," said Valerie Frederickson, CEO & founder2 of Valerie Frederickson & Co., an HR executive search and consulting firm. "But it has nothing to do with achieving your goals."

　　一整天都处于“电子邮件响应模式”：每收到一封电子邮件就立刻去回复。这个做法也许表现出你能积极响应，但并不是一定有成效。人力资源执行官搜索及咨询公司Valerie Frederickson的CEO和创始人Valerie Frederickson说：“你感觉自己像个英雄，因为你处理完了所有的电子邮件，但是这对于完成目标没帮助。”

　　 Abusing work-from-home privileges. Yes, you save time when you work from home by not commuting3. But too many people are easily sidetracked by the laundry, their kids, a quick errand. "People like to say, 'I get so much more done'" working from home, Davis said. And some do -- but not everyone. If you work from home, make sure you're putting in a full day's work -- and that you're accessible to your colleagues during the workday.

　　滥用在家办公权利。是的，在家工作让你不必把时间浪费在路上。但是有很多人会因为洗衣服、孩子和突发状况不能集中精神。Davis说：“人们喜欢说，在家办公，‘我能多做这么多'”。有些人的确是，但并不是每个人。如果你在家办公，确保你安排了一整天的工作量，而且在工作日，同事们都能联系到你。

　　 Putting personal life before work. Everyone has emergencies from time to time. But it's annoying to have to repeatedly fill in for the colleague who is late every morning because he's checking on his home remodeling project, or who misses an entire afternoon because she scheduled a routine dentist appointment for 1:30 pm.

　　个人生活先于工作。每个人都会时不时有紧急事情，但有些情况让人恼怒，比如你总是要顶替一位每天早晨由于检查家庭装修而迟到的同事，或顶替下午1:30去看牙医而整个下午都没来的同事。

　　 Being late for meetings. People who show up 5 or 10 minutes late for a meeting cause a "domino effect," Davis said. Meetings later that day may be thrown off schedule because the earlier ones ran late. And people who show up on time feel their time is being wasted.

　　开会迟到。按Davis的话说，开会晚到5或10分钟会引起“多米诺”效应。因为前面的会议开晚了，那么当天安排在后面的会议的时间都会被打乱。而且准时到会的人也会感觉自己的时间被浪费了。

　　 Not taking care of health and hygiene4. Leslie G. Griffen, an HR consultant5 and career coach, is sometimes hired by companies to approach an employee who doesn't bathe and ask them to improve their hygiene. The problem is twofold, said Griffen, principal of The Griffen Group. A sloppy6 appearance will cause a poor first impression. Also, "if your hygiene is bad, your health is probably bad," Griffen said. An added benefit of eating well and exercising: You'll have more energy.

　　不注意个人健康和卫生。人力资源顾问及职场教练Leslie G. Griffen有时候会应公司聘请去教导不洗澡的员工，要求他们改善个人卫生。Griffen Group公司总裁Griffen说，这个问题会带来双重恶果：懒散的外表会给人不好的第一印象，而且“如果你的个人卫生不好，那么健康或许也不好。”良好饮食及锻炼的一个额外好处是，你会有更多精力。

　　 Using inappropriate humor. Your coworkers may not appreciate your sense of humor. Skip the off-color or "racially targeted" jokes, Griffen said. And be careful about sensitive subjects such as politics and religion.

　　不适当的幽默。你的同事们可能并不欣赏你的幽默。Griffen说，避免那些下流或“具有种族歧视”的笑话，而且注意政治和宗教这些敏感话题。

　　 Not caring about your work. People like coworkers who are enthusiastic about what they do. Show that you take pride in your job by presenting yourself well, communicating clearly and doing your best work.

　　不关心自己的工作。人们喜欢对工作有热情的同事。用良好的举止、清晰的交流和最好的业绩来表现出你以工作为荣。

　　扩展：什么样的工作是好工作

　　Asked what job they would take if they could have any, people unleash1 their imaginations and dream of exotic places, powerful positions or work that involves alcohol and a paycheck at the same time.

　　如果能选择，你会做什么工作?对于这个问题，人们会充分施展想象力，幻想在异国他乡身居高位，或从事一边喝酒一边拿工资的事情。

　　Or so you'd think.

　　大概你也这么想。

　　None of that appeals to Lori Miller2 who, as a lead word processor, has to do things that don't seem so dreamy, including proofreading3, spell checking and formatting4. But she loves it.

　　可是这些全都没有让首席文字处理员Lori Miller心动。她的工作似乎不那么美妙，比如校正、拼写核对及整理格式。可是她却乐在其中。

　　"I like and respect nearly all my co-workers, and most of them feel the same way about me," she says. "Just a few things would make it a little better," she says, including a shorter commute5 and the return of some great people who used to work there. And one more thing: She'd appreciate if everyone would put their dishes in the dishwasher.

　　她说：“我喜欢并尊敬所有同事，他们多数人对我也是一样的感觉。只需一点点改进就能让这份工作更好了。”她所指的包括：上班距离更近;过去跳槽的好职员能回来;另外，她希望大家都把用过的碗碟放入洗碗机内。

　　It's not a lot to ask for and, it turns out, a surprising number of people dreaming up their dream job don't ask for much. One could attribute it to lack of imagination, setting the bar low or "anchoring," the term referring to the place people start and never move far from. One could chalk it up to rationalizing your plight6.

　　这要求不算高。让人惊讶的是，很多做着白日梦的人们实际上也没有太高要求。有人会将此归结为缺乏想象力、要求太低或是“守旧”——愿意停在一开始的地方，永远都离它不远。有人说，愿意“守旧”其实是为自己的窘境找借口。

　　But maybe people simply like what they do and aren't, as some management would have you believe, asking for too much -- just the elimination7 of a small but disproportionately powerful amount of office inanity8.

　　但也许人们就是喜欢自己的工作而且不会要求太多(正如一些管理人希望让你相信的那样)，只要去除掉办公室里为数不多却能量惊人的愚蠢行径就行。

　　That may be one reason why two-thirds of Americans would take the same job again "without hesitation9" and why 90% of Americans are at least somewhat satisfied with their jobs, according to a Gallup Poll.

　　这也许就是为什么Gallup调查发现，有三分之二的美国人愿意毫不犹豫地投奔老东家， 90%的美国人至少对工作有一些满意的原因。

　　The matters that routinely rank high on a satisfaction scale don't relate to money but "work as a means for demonstrating some sort of responsibility and achievement," says Barry Staw, professor of leadership and communication at University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business. "Pay -- even when it's important, it's not for what you can buy, it's a validation10 of your work and approval."

　　按Barry Staw教授的话说，对工作满意程度影响大的因素都和钱无关，“人们认为工作是一种展示责任和成就的方式”。Barry Staw在加州大学伯克利分院Haas商学院开设领导及沟通课程。他说：“薪酬的重要性不在于你能用它买到什么，而是对你工作和认可的证明。”

　　So, money doesn't interest Elizabeth Gray as much as a level playing field. "I like what I do," says the city project manager who once witnessed former colleagues award a contractor11, paid for work he never completed, with the title of "Contractor of the Year."

　　所以对Elizabeth Gray来说，相对金钱，一个机会平等的平台更让她感兴趣。作为城市规划管理人员，她目睹之前的同事们将“年度承包商”的头衔授予一位根本没有完成任务的承包商。“我喜欢我所做的。”

　　Thus: "My dream job would be one free of politics," she says. "All advancement12 would be based on merit. The people who really did the work would be the ones who received the credit."

　　她说：“我的理想工作没有办公室政治。所有的奖励都根据表现。真正付出劳动的人应该获得嘉奖。”

　　Frank Gastner has a similar ideal: "VP in charge of destroying inane13 policies." Over the years, he's had to hassle with the simplest of design flaws that would cost virtually nothing to fix were it not for the bureaucracies that entrenched14 them. So, the retired15 manufacturer's representative says he would address product and process problems with the attitude, "It's not right; let's fix it now without a committee meeting."

　　Frank Gastner的想法也类似：“副总裁负责消灭愚蠢的政策。”常年以来，他和那些最简单的设计缺陷做斗争，如果不是因为官僚作风，修补这些缺陷不花什么钱。因此这位曾经的制造商代表说，他会将产品、流程和态度联系在一起：“这不对。我们现在就纠正它，不需要开什么委员会”。

　　Monique Huston actually has her dream job -- and many tell her it's theirs, too. She's general manager of a pub in Omaha, the Dundee Dell, which boasts 650 single-malt scotches16 on its menu. She visits bars, country clubs, people's homes and Scotland for whiskey tastings. "I stumbled on my passion in life," she says.

　　Monique Huston用有一份理想的工作，而且许多人告诉她这工作也是他们所梦想的。她是奥马哈市一家酒馆的总经理。这家名为Dundee Dell的酒馆供应650种单麦芽苏格兰威士忌。为了推销威士忌，她走访了酒吧、乡村俱乐部、民宅。她说：“我这个激情是偶然发现的。”

　　Still, some nights she doesn't feel like drinking -- or smiling. "Your face hurts," she complains. And when you have your dream job you wonder what in the world you'll do next.

　　不过有些时候她也不喜欢品酒或微笑。她抱怨：“脸会疼。”当你拥有了一份理想工作，你会想，接下来还有什么可做的。

　　One of the big appeals of a dream job is dreaming about it. Last year, George Reinhart saw an ad for a managing director of the privately17 owned island of Mustique in the West Indies.

　　白日梦本身就是一件幸福的事。去年George Reinhart发现位于西印度群岛的Mustique私人岛在招聘总经理。

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