Do you consider your colleagues as your friends?
Do you feel comfortable to talk to your colleagues in a same way as you talk to your friends?
I think friendship at workplace is actually not possible and it is an illusion. At workplace you are actually competitors and should be competing in a healthy manner but yet cannot be friends. You cannot be friends with your colleagues in a same department and at the same level. All managers in a department are actually aiming to become department head or VP / Director of that department (as applicable). In a same manner, all department heads aims to lead the company or become CEO of the company. Do you think that you can be so close to your colleague to recommend his / her name to your boss for promotion or higher increments? Certainly you won’t. Working in a team is different. The role of an individual in a company is defined in such a way he or she needs to depend upon the other individual…hence there is interdependency. Team work and professional relationships are different from casual friendship. All other types of relations are just an illusion.
Hence, I like to ask… (Here, we are not considering cross the gender relationships)
What is your relationship with your colleagues at workplace?
Do you consider your colleagues as your friends?
Do you feel comfortable to talk to your colleagues in a same way as you talk to your friends?
How comfortable are you to share your personal emotions with your colleagues at workplace?
Did you ever found yourself cheated by your colleague because you shared some information with him or her…considering him to be your friend?
Kindly share your views and experiences.
Thanks and Regards
Sanjeev
Do you feel comfortable to talk to your colleagues in a same way as you talk to your friends?
I think friendship at workplace is actually not possible and it is an illusion. At workplace you are actually competitors and should be competing in a healthy manner but yet cannot be friends. You cannot be friends with your colleagues in a same department and at the same level. All managers in a department are actually aiming to become department head or VP / Director of that department (as applicable). In a same manner, all department heads aims to lead the company or become CEO of the company. Do you think that you can be so close to your colleague to recommend his / her name to your boss for promotion or higher increments? Certainly you won’t. Working in a team is different. The role of an individual in a company is defined in such a way he or she needs to depend upon the other individual…hence there is interdependency. Team work and professional relationships are different from casual friendship. All other types of relations are just an illusion.
Hence, I like to ask… (Here, we are not considering cross the gender relationships)
What is your relationship with your colleagues at workplace?
Do you consider your colleagues as your friends?
Do you feel comfortable to talk to your colleagues in a same way as you talk to your friends?
How comfortable are you to share your personal emotions with your colleagues at workplace?
Did you ever found yourself cheated by your colleague because you shared some information with him or her…considering him to be your friend?
Kindly share your views and experiences.
Thanks and Regards
Sanjeev