There are 10 common ways we can self-sabotage our career, and only one involves weaponry.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Walking the tightrope at work between individual professionalism and being a team-player (which every company says<\/em> it wants but most don’t really value that highly) can be tricky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here’s 10 areas of corporate life you may want to pay a bit of attention to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. Narcissism<\/strong><\/em> — wanting to be liked so much that you avoid necessary confrontations<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Emotional Immaturity<\/strong><\/em> — always playing the office clown is a great example of this<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. Self-Defeat Messages<\/strong><\/em> — repeatedly making negative comments about yourself. Yes, there is<\/em> a fine line between self-deprecation and modesty\/humility<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. Revenge <\/strong><\/em>— attempting to ‘get even’ with your employer for reasons such as low salary or a poor performance review<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. Attention-Seeking<\/strong><\/em> — trying so hard to get noticed that, for example, you become over-critical of management<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6. Procrastination <\/strong><\/em>— often develops into getting a reputation for being unreliable<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7. Excessive absenteeism or lateness<\/strong><\/em> — you develop the reputation of being both unprofessional and uninterested in your career<\/p>\n\n\n\n 8. Thrill seeking<\/strong><\/em> — like making unauthorised use of company equipment, just for kicks<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9. Crossing swords<\/strong><\/em> — with those more powerful is a dangerous idea. VERY dangerous if done too often!<\/p>\n\n\n\n 10. Unrealistic Expectations<\/strong><\/em> — you often fail and then naturally become discouraged and less likely to perform at your best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Give yourself an occasional personal performance review on these 10 topics and help keep yourself both highly valuable and highly employable.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Career self-sabotage There are 10 common ways we can self-sabotage our career, and only one involves weaponry. Walking the tightrope at work between individual professionalism and being a team-player (which every company says it wants but most don’t really value that highly) can be tricky. Here’s 10 areas of corporate life you may want to pay a…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[306],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-writing"],"yoast_head":"\n
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