3 tips to counter the pressure to succeed & performance obsession: Career - not at any price!

Success, career and performance were in ours Society long the measure of all things. But in the course of digital change, the ideal of meritocracy. What impact does this have on employees?

Pull emergency brake in time

Susanne has been complaining about everything and everyone for a long time. Nobody does their job properly and without them nothing would work anyway, she constantly states. She keeps tearing open her A... while the others are in theirs Eyes fail. But what happens when supervisors and colleagues do this Behavior to ignore?

I hope not something like the bottom of the video: That she is completely freaked out! Actually, Susanne would have to pull the emergency brake much earlier. Namely, asking herself the question: Can it be that I completely overestimate myself and my own performance? To help you appreciate this, read the following situation:

It can not go on like this!

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Susanne gets terribly upset again. This time about Lina, her colleague, because you have given her the holiday representation of Rosi. However, Lina Susanne's anger does not understand. Normally nobody tears it.

It just means having to work more. When she asks Susanne why she is so angry, she prints it first. Then it bursts out of her: "Then I can finally prove what mistakes Rosi makes." Lina stares at Susanne in astonishment. So this is what Susanne wants to achieve?

Gone too far

Now she's clearly going too far - Lina thinks - and also that it can not go on like this. But what can you do?

Husband rebels - rightly?

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Lina thinks about Susanne: She knows that even her little son and her husband only play the last fiddle. Susanne just wants to work, work, work. She constantly asks for additional Tasks cracked. Her Executive she had to slow down.

She herself had said to Susanne several times that it would definitely go wrong in the long run, but she only denied it. Earlier she heard Susanne complain. Your husband would definitely be fed up. It is said to have crashed violently. He finally wants his Ms. have again and her son his Mother.

Nobody wants to get stuck in Susanne's skin

Lina will clear, the difficult situation Susanne is in right now. She must feel terribly bad feel. If you always work and work and consider yourself irreplaceable, you will see your skin swimming even in the vacation replacement that you have not received.

In addition, she now also has her husband against him. Perhaps she even feels that you have long since become too much. She is in a tremendous pinch, because she does not want to admit it.

Career Gege - at what price?

It is already sad to see the result of a career. Fortunately, Susanne's boss finally spoke plain text. In mutual agreement, they screwed down the work to a reasonable degree. This was long overdue. It was a pity that it had to come so far.

Do we often react too late or inconsistently? On the one hand we ourselves, if we overburden ourselves, on the other hand our own colleagues, who only watch or are not stubborn enough. So all act exactly as a boss - who does not recognize it or does not want to recognize - irresponsible.

Checklist against the delusion of achievement

Do you also know such situations? Think for a moment - the following checklist helps you:

• Was it perhaps similar to you or colleagues?
• What happened in this case?
• Did colleagues or the boss?
• What did the solution look like?
• How many bosses do you know that react in such situations?

Tips against the delusion of achievement

But what can you actually do in such a situation? The following tips will help you find one Solution:

1. Think about it: are not there things in your life that are not one hundred percent - and still good? For example, your colleague in the office: Do not you mind about their chaos twenty times a day? And is not that why you have so much fun at work sometimes because he sees things looser?
2. Or the meeting last week: Actually, the boss wanted to discuss something completely different. But then the discussion became totally chaotic, but some very good ideas came to the table.
3. With a little thought, you will probably come up with many such examples that are not one hundred percent, but still good! This helps you to loosen up things a bit.

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