Some time ago, the student who has participated in the work for many years sent me a WeChat chat about the recent situation, in which she mentioned one of the things that bothered her the most recently.
She said that the head of their department had always been her, but this year their department and another department were merged, and the head of another department was also merged, so whether she could still be the head of the department this year was very hanging, she asked me what to do?
I would have loved it in the past, but this time I suggested that she go home and look at the short story "No Problem" published by Mr. Lao She in 1943 and the film of the same name starring Fan Wei, which was adapted from it, which may help her to her workplace confusion.
I recommend her to watch this novel and the movie of the same name because I think her current situation is somewhat similar to the problems that Ding Wuyuan encountered when running Shuhua Farm, except that the problems encountered by Ding Wuyuan are more complicated.
When Ding Wuyuan took office, many people on the farm were not convinced, because the farm's consecutive years of losses caused shareholder dissatisfaction, and later the farm was appointed a new director of the practical faction, You Daxing, just in such a situation of internal and external troubles, Ding Wuyuan could also squeeze out You Daxing to sit firmly in the position of farm director, which shows that this person's intelligence has been put on the shelf until now a proper CEO.
If you pay close attention to observation, you will find that Ding Wuyuan Ding Wuyuan's practices in dealing with the job crisis of Shuhua Farm are actually strongly transferable, and this article will analyze some of the strategies involved in handling the job crisis, hoping to give some enlightenment to people who are in the workplace crisis like Xuemei.
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Many middle-level leaders have been troubled by the question: How to get the approval of employees after a new company? What if a colleague who has just arrived in a new position has a lot of negative emotions? In "No Problem", Ding Wuyuan gave a more perfect solution.
Ding Wuyuan parachuted into the new director of Shuhua Farm, and when he first took office, he brought some relatives of the seven aunts and eight aunts of the family to the back door into the farm to work, so he also squeezed out some experienced workers and workers to dismiss and replace them with his own relatives.
His nepotism made the rest of the farm employees very dissatisfied, and they all wanted to resign and leave.
It is normal for a unit to change a new leader and resign a few people, but if all the employees leave their jobs, then the farm business will definitely stop, and it will also give people a feeling that the leadership ability of the new leader is insufficient.
Smart as Ding Wuyuan, he certainly can't let this kind of workplace Waterloo thing happen to him, he only used three moves to regain the recognition of employees, and employees have a tendency to worship him more and more.
First, stay still and look for opportunities
Although it is said: "the new official took office three fires", but Ding Wuyuan is the opposite, he did not immediately arrange a new code of conduct for employees, nor did he reallocate any work, the first thing he did was to stay still, he did not give employees the opportunity to resign, and if employees handed in their resignation, he did not look at it at all.
His approach is ostensibly to stand still, but in fact it has achieved multiple effects, first of all, it gives those employees who want to resign because of a momentary intention to give a buffer opportunity, and when they calm down and return to reality, maybe the resignation will be over.
Secondly, this also gives employees a psychological hint, so that employees feel that they are still very important in this farm, even the superior leaders avoid themselves, worried about their resignation, employees find a sense of superiority in their work, and will slowly dispel the idea of wanting to resign.
In addition, if the soldiers are tossed by the employees, everyone has no main backbone and everyone's inner abacus is not dialed in one direction, and after a long time, this temporary group will disintegrate from within.
Second, small favors buy people's hearts
Not giving employees the opportunity to resign is just a stopgap measure to buy time, after all, if employees really want to resign, they can always find the right opportunity, and if they want to really retain employees, they must let them recognize the leader from the bottom of their hearts and let them have a sense of belonging.
Ding Wuyuan bought people's hearts and minds in two steps, he first quickly remembered the names of all the employees in two days, and found out their places of origin.
Then he and each person with each other's origin as the starting point to warmly talk to each other, and then have a close physical contact with the employees, so that he easily disarmed the staff, so that their confidence in him is increasing day by day.
In addition, no matter how big or small the employee encounters a big thing or a small thing to find Director Ding to open his mouth, Director Ding has always agreed to it, and sometimes the employee's words have not been finished and he has directly agreed, although in the eyes of the employees, the big things in the eyes of the staff are only a matter of convenience in Director Ding's side, but the employees still accept their feelings in the end.
The unit has a colleague, he has a magical ability, always quickly can get along with other cooperation departments, in the hands of other colleagues is very difficult cross-departmental cooperation problems can always be quickly solved in his hands, because other departments see that he is leading, always open the door of convenience.
When I was chatting, I asked him for lessons, and he said that as long as he was fine, he would go around to other departments, and when he was fine, he would give them a cigarette, buy some melon seeds, snacks and so on, and chat together, and over time everyone would be mixed.
He said that in fact, people are human feelings in the end, as long as you respect each other, occasionally think of going to see each other, when you encounter things, it is easy to deal with.
Obviously, Ding Wuyuan is well versed in this principle, and he is more skilled than my colleagues, and he can play psychological warfare, he can buy people's hearts without spending a penny of his own money, and even get more dividends through employees.
Create public opinion to elevate yourself
Director Ding is not very careful to buy things for employees, so although the things bought are good things, they are always very expensive, and Director Ding did not give any explanation to the employees, but slowly put himself buying things for the field director and shareholders as well as buying things for them.
Creating such public opinion not only dispelled the doubts of the farm workers about Director Ding, but also revealed that the relationship between Director Ding and the field director and the shareholders was not ordinary, so the employees trusted him more and more.
Director Ding not only let employees know that he is a trustworthy leader but also vaguely reveals that his workplace background should not be underestimated by looking for opportunities, buying people's hearts and small favors and creating public opinion, which implies a signal: following such a director's life will certainly not be bad, and this is the essence of the employees' work, Director Ding has touched the lifeblood of employees as soon as he shoots, so he can quickly obtain the trust of employees.
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As the saying goes, "see people with three points of laughter, every time people encounter things related to photos", Ding Wuyuan usually sees everyone is a smiling and squinting look, giving people a very good first impression, in the workplace managers in addition to outstanding personal ability also need to leave a good impression on the superior leaders, so that they will leave a large "fault tolerance rate" for their work.
Ding Wuyuan is also obviously a leader in the aspect of meeting his boss, and the Shuhua Farm he runs is obviously rich in poultry, fruitful fruit trees, and the sales of the farm are also excellent, but such a farm is losing money.
Shareholders clearly know that this problem is due to Ding Wuyuan, but no one has broken this problem, why does Ding Wuyuan have such a big face? Probably the following two initiatives he usually took worked:
First, the establishment of a community of interests, this sentence is simply: everyone is a grasshopper on a rope - no one can run.
On weekdays, Ding Wuyuan has sent flowers, eggs, meat, etc. to the farm manager and even every shareholder, and whoever has any red and white things in the family is also the help of Ding Wuyuan before and after running, and whoever has an accident also relies on Ding Wuyuan to make big things small and small things.
Everyone has gained benefits from Ding Wuyuan, and if you think about it carefully, all the shareholders who lose money on the farm have a certain responsibility, so who is responsible at this time?
Because everyone has responsibilities, there is no way to be accountable, and Ding Wuyuan has saved himself by establishing a community of interests to share the responsibilities he bears.
Second, break into the rear of the shareholders. As the saying goes: "The southeast wind, the northwest wind, is no match for the wife's pillow wind." "A woman's pillow wind has always been very powerful. Therefore, in addition to currying favor with the field director and shareholders, Ding Wuyuan did not even ignore their wives.
On weekdays, he played a card with the ladies of the head of the field every three to five minutes, and by the way, the ladies were happy, and the ladies encountered tricky things he also went to help anytime and anywhere, which won him a good impression score in front of the ladies, and when they encountered things, they said a few words for Ding Wuyuan, and it was not impossible for big things to turn small and small things to turn small things into nothing.
It is precisely because he has a good reputation in front of the field director and the field leader's wife that he can sit his director Ding under the continuous loss of the farm, which shows the importance of the tolerance and support of the boss for the middle leadership.
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In the case of successive losses on the farm, a shareholder quietly arranged for a new director to manage Shuhua Farm, who had studied gardening in the United States and was smart, strong and willing to endure hardships.
Originally, such a knowledgeable and capable person who managed a small farm should not have been a problem, but he would not be sleek and sophisticated, would not be a little humane, would not be flattered, and management would become a problem.
Although Director Ding waited until the new director came to the farm to learn that he had been replaced, he forced himself to calm down, helped the new director to settle the new home, and made a fuss about You Daxing's desire to ask about the specific situation of the farm. His enthusiasm and thoughtfulness won the favor of Mrs. Daxing, and thus expanded the original three-day handover time to six days.
When facing a fierce opponent, the first step he made was to buy himself time to fight back, and he did.
The last count in The Thirty-Six Plans of Sun Tzu's Art of War is to go up, and this plan is stated as follows:
The whole division avoided the enemy, and there was no blame in the second, and there was no abnormality.
Meaning: The whole army retreats, throws off the enemy, retreats into advance, and waits for the opportunity to be destroyed, which does not violate the normal law.
The third count in The Thirty-Six Plans of Sun Tzu's Art of War is to kill people with a knife, and this plan is expressed as follows:
Using Qin Miaozhai to drive away You Daxing's enemy is already clear, the friend is undecided, and the friend is killed by the enemy, not by his own strength, in order to damage the deduction.
Meaning: The object of battle has been determined, and the attitude of friends is still unstable, to induce friends to destroy enemies and avoid consuming themselves.
Secondly, he judged that the current form was not in his favor, so he followed the thirty-six plans and fled to the city in any case, unlike The Great Xing leak farm.
In the city, he inquired about the more detailed background of You Daxing and Qin Miaozhai while waiting for the opportunity to take down You Daxing in one fell swoop.
This hand is the upper plan, avoiding its sharp edge is the second step for Director Ding to squeeze out You Daxing, and he plays with his magic.
Leaving is obviously not the goal for You Daxing, who regards Shuhua Farm as outside the palm of his hand, and his short departure is to better regain control of the farm, so he has made a lot of covert arrangements before leaving.
He took advantage of You Daxing's desire to drive away Qin Miaozhai, who ate and drank white on the farm.
First of all, he and Qin Miaozhai held a secret meeting, cooperated with qin Miaozhai artists, and pretended to disagree with Qin Miaozhai and were persuaded by him.
His series of moves were completely based on the trap set by Qin Miaozhai's personality, and Qin Miaozhai was really deceived, following his will and becoming a knife in his hand that swung at his opponent.
On the other hand, he explained to the farm staff that Qin Miaozhai was not qualified to live on the farm, which made the employees who were very emotionally inclined to Qin Miaozhai very unhappy, so he successfully found someone to fight together for Qin Miaozhai.
It was through this method of killing people with a knife that he effortlessly drove the seemingly strong opponent out of the farm, and although the matter was solved, he also knew that the knife in his hand called Myo Jai could be used well against the enemy, but if it was not used well, it would hurt people.
Therefore, during the time he was running away, he even found out the details of the invitation to Miaozhai, and finally handed over the knife he once held to the baochang to take away, so that he could really sit firmly in the position of director of Shuhua Farm.
I think that Director Ding's hand borrowing a knife to kill people is probably a classic case of this strategy in the workplace.
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Lao She has such a sentence in "No Problem": "The upward road is extremely difficult." The lofty decisions of reason are often undermined by a little superficial, humble feeling. Emotions are something that makes it extremely easy to get drunk and go crazy.
A little reasonable mistake in the workplace, often may regret lifelong, in the workplace can be promoted to the middle level of leadership, compared to the business is more difficult to manage is personnel, I hope that you can learn some workplace survival rules in the "no problem" in the old Ding.
But all day long geese may also be pecked by eagles, people's emotions are often extremely difficult to control, I advise everyone to play with people's hearts of the power of the workplace people to understand, but not to use too much.