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player ready...What`s one of the biggest beefs some workers have?
According to a recent issue of Training and Development, a business journal, a top gripe is being forced to submit to a stream of seemingly endless after-hours, job-related socializing.
Employees say that outings, from regular weekly cocktail gatherings to orchestrated dinners, are sapping too much of their valuable family and leisure time.
Yet it`s difficult to discount the value of such gatherings.
”They are absolutely critical,” Lynn Pearl, president of Chicago`s Executive Communication Inc., a training and consulting firm, says in the October issue of Mademoiselle magazine.
”This is the way you network internally. You can find out more about what`s going on in your office and corporation at these social/business events than you ever could from interoffice memos.”
She also notes that it is an optimum time to make a favorable impression with higher-ups in an environment in which they are much more approachable than in a structured office.
So what is the best prescription for enduring the outings?
You do not have to attend all outings. But to ensure a ”politically correct” posture, try to attend at least one-third of the time, advises Training and Development.
When you do attend, it`s best to arrive at the beginning of the event because you will be more visible and it`s easier to make connections, Pearl says.
Initiate work-hours socializing, such as breakfast or lunch meetings, as a substitute for postwork shindigs.