How does your behavior affect you?

In my last posts, I wrote something about the two qualities that affect our work. These are your skill and your comportment (behavior). You may be an expert on something, but nobody likes working with you neither your company's clients wanting to negotiate anything with you. On the other hand, you may be the most sympathetic person on earth in attending people and working with people, but you do not have the necessary skills required for your job. People will like to have fun with you and hang out with you socially, but cannot consult you in order to solve technical problems. In other words, you need the two attributes. You need to have good skills and good behavior. 

     I know you have good skill before your Company hired you. This is because job interviews are generally centred on skills and less on behaviors. The question now is: how does your behavior affect you? Have you ever asked yourself this question before? The fact is that nobody will tell you about this, even your closest friends. This is because many people are afraid of hurting others. The situation is worse for people in high positions. Everybody likes to be a friend of the boss in order to be favoured by the boss. As a result, they cannot say anything negative about you in order to continue with their priviledges. Stop for a while and ask yourself the question above. 

     One director of Human Resources once told me that they do not verify the behavior aspect during the interview. They only worry about it during promotion to managerial positions. As a result, they provide trainings about leadership and people management for senior positions. If the trainings do not solve the problem, they tend to hire executives from the market. That is the reason for writing this post. You may not why your Organization did not promote you to the executive position. It may be because of your behavior! In the next posts, we will verify some of the points you should consider in order to assess yourself. Have a good week!