Choose confidants you know will take yours to the grave. Think twice, as well, about sharing personal information with your superiors or subordinates because it can affect your professional relationships with them. An office romance puts you at risk of becoming the subject of workplace gossip. In this case, you won't even have to share personal information with your co-workers.
They will be able to witness it live and in person. You and your partner will be the stars of your workplace's reality show. Keeping the relationship a secret is possible, but difficult, especially if you and your co-worker are on the same team. If it's already too late, at least be discreet when dating a co-worker. Don't flaunt your relationship in front of your colleagues. Refrain from public displays of affection or arguing in front of everyone.
For some people, there is nothing quite as entertaining as watching someone lose their temper. Your colleagues will excitedly observe your red face, shaking hands, and the profanities pouring out of your mouth. Then they will spend the ensuing days whispering about your outburst behind your back as they wait for the next one.
When something at work upsets you, take a moment—or a few—to cool down before you address it. If you don't think you can speak without yelling or cursing, then don't. Wait until you are calm and to express your thoughts. Do your own part to avoid contributing to office gossip, too. This will hurt the company and will hurt your reputation and personal brand.
To stay out of trouble , be sure to spread only positive news. Taking the Pulse Gossip -- whether positive or negative -- can be a diagnostic tool for managers and supervisors. For example, listening to gossip prior to or directly after a major organizational change is a good way for managers to learn how employees feel about the change and how they are adjusting to it. These myths can be instructive to employees because they teach them about what is truly valued in that culture.
Some negative consequences of workplace gossip are:. In their employee handbooks, many companies have formal policies restricting gossip. Beyond that, he added, organizations have to decide where the line is between innocuous banter among colleagues and conversations that could lead to legitimate concerns about health, safety or harassment. Writing policies prohibiting gossip may be tricky enough that companies may instead want to focus on educating employees about the dangers of talking about co-workers behind their backs, said Hyman.
Corporate e-mail can be a particularly dangerous method of spreading gossip because messages may be easily forwarded to unintended recipients. The e-mail policy should clearly define the extent of employees' privacy expectations when it comes to communications via company equipment. You may be trying to access this site from a secured browser on the server. Please enable scripts and reload this page. By Dana Wilkie. Reuse Permissions. Image Caption. Is it gossip to speculate whether Carol in accounting is expecting her second child?
Stay calm, ignore the rumor, shut your mouth, and let your success do the talking. Related: Have You Heard? Envy is the most violent of all the emotions. People seek to destroy what they envy. Jealousy has the greatest potential to absolutely destroy relationships. If you are around a gossip the first thing to realize is they are harmful people, and they will eventually be harmful to you.
They will. Gossips are not loyal to anyone but themselves. They will do all they can to get you involved in their drama to at some later point use your own words for blackmail when they see fit to mend fences with their original target. Gossips use gossip as a bargaining tool for their success. Sadly, there are many who climb the latter of success in this way. If you can stay back and not involve yourself you will see their success is short lived.
They will lie and deny all of their wrongdoing scapegoating any and all in their wake. Keep your sensors up and never trust anyone whom you see constantly talking about others good or bad. It is human nature to talk about others, to analyze and to be curious, so catching onto a destructive gossiper can be difficult to discern.
You all talk about and hold opinions of others in the workplace. For this reason, a person who is a pathological gossiper will smile to your face while scheming to suck you in for the purpose of eventually exploiting your trust. Be aware of any individual who seems to share too much too soon about themselves and who seems to have rigid opinions about others.
Gossip, for you, will only feel good temporarily until you catch on to the fact that the person you are gossiping with will turn on you in a nanosecond. This person can now share any information you told them in confidence. Learn to manage yourself and your relationships in the workplace doing what you can to keep them more professional and less personal. At their core gossips are tragically insecure. Everyone, including you, is a threat to their sense-of-Self. Gossips have poor ego development and tend to be emotionally labile.
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