In this article I want to talk about toxic working environments and their affect on your career. Many writers discuss conscequences to your health which under the worst of it will be a case. The minor and yet major flop can be a negative effect on your career. Toxic environments can inbox you into wrong-thinking. My diverse career experience has inspired me to make these conclusions.
Why Bother About Toxicity of the Working Environment?
- Toxicity at your working place is a brain load, and as we only have one headspace, part of it will be filled with this unnecessary information.
- You will learn less taskwise and professionally in general.
- You will not develop your personality at work.
- Your career opportunities in the future will be weakened as you will look less competitive at interviews
- Worst of it, it can for sure take toll on your health.
Why is it Important to Consider Toxicity at Work as a Part of Your Career?
Many people still pursue their career goals in a traditional task-based way which is only a half of it. The same task in different companies might look differently due to the company's culture, industry, resources, strategy and general performance at the market.
So what you learn from the same task might be tremedously different from company to company.
Elements of Your Working Day That Might Tell You The Culture is Toxic
1. You have to be able to develop perosnally elsewhere or on your own. If your working space uses the power of your brain or physical unity without providing you with good colleague and leadership examples, and you have to grow only through your self-development. It is not good enough, a great company will provide you with more than just a competitive salary, as it knows that you will be its representative in the future and keep it competitive today.
2. You waste more time on brushing up material. Great corporate environments will make sure that you are up to date with your professional skills through great collaboration across the value chain. But if your cognitive abilities are weakened by toxicity, you will brush up at home as you only have one headspace.
3. You learn professionally more from the books and workshops and implement it at work. Along with brushing up you will have to be more out and learn from the world around professionally to be able to keep up the pace with a changing world.
4. You waste more time on figuring out how to find the right approach to some colleagues than to learn from the task. You are, for sure, hired to solve your tasks in collaboration with others, but the company shall also provide you with a possibility to develop your business communication and collaboration patterns. If you have to study psychology to approach some of your colleagues, then you deal with toxic environment, that will deprive you from learning the skill that is more needed for your future career.
5. Your company has no solid plan and you have to overwork to solve your task in the best possible way. If the company has no solid top strategy and market visions, you will have to create some framework from down to top to solve your task in the best possible way. It is time-consuming, exosting and depriving you of your future opportunities.
6. Any new initiativ takes more time than needed. Companies and corporations that have effective structures, are better adapters of any new initiative, therefore you will learn more than at a company where you will have to waste a lot of time and effort explaining why anything is good for their business, product and competitiveness.
7. Your existance is only based on your delivaries and there are no recognition for your effort. If your reward is only based on your salary, and you have to stay motivated on your own and provide decent delivaries. You will look more exosted and less interesting at your future interviews as we have only one headspace.
8. You cannot take initiatives and discuss professional contributions.
As the result of it you will learn neither personally nor professionally at the desired amount, and will look less competitive at your future interviews.
Remember, The Working Space is Based on Requirement not Love
After having discussed all the toxic elements that might be of a bigger burden, I want to remind you that your work is your responsibility, and for sure is based on a requirement and obligation prior to anything else, so there will always be a toxic element as you will have to exist in a specially structured environment and you will have to relate to that and be an effective task-solver.
You just have to evaluate how that structure is giving for your professional growth and career opportunities.
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