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Alison Green

Halloween is over, but you can have a disturbing face anyway. If you're still carrying around fears and bad habits in his latest work, career formed, and you are in need of an exorcism!

Bad jobs can in many ways to injure, destroy their quality of life, Stop professionally and make you fear come to work every day. But if you think that everything ends when you leave, you would be wrong. Instill in modifying the workplace or dysfunctional behavior in order to accommodate the potentially bad habits Manager of "survival" that can hurt them when they go to the best companies For many people, too much time.

Here are some signs that you are still after a bad precedent or abuse Chef are followed:

You get defensive when your manager gives you feedback, because his former boss ratings are used to punish or scold. Good managers provide thoughtful comments, because they help you to want to develop professionally. If you react as if it is a game of "gotcha" that you have to defend against, you will make it more difficult, the same response that will help you grow in your job - and probably raises concerns in their new chef.

The worse your boss or colleagues are expected. For instance, you might think you need to cover their mistakes, as the former head down too hard on you, even minor errors. Or you may think that your employer will always try to put negotiations at a disadvantage, because it happened to a previous job. There are those managers and entrepreneurs, but they are not the norm. Assuming the position in a healthy workplace you can put in line with the culture and even cause problems at work.

You will not do their best work, because you have learned previously that they would be appreciated. If you worked somewhere that the hard work does not recognize and tolerate shoddy performance, you can decided at one point that it was useless without go to headquarters; After all, no one cared. But if you take MO on a new task, it can really hurt your reputation - and maybe even help you to convert.

They think that "all leaders are _____." It really does not matter how you fill this gap; If you think that 100 percent of managers think or act in a certain way, it is a sign that you do not think realistically. You want the attention to how your current manager thinks and acts to pay. No tar him by association with the previous managers.

If you recognize yourself in these descriptions, follow these steps to banish the bad habits of his professional life:

1. Recognize when their habits are rooted in ancient disorder. Take time to reflect on the roots of their beliefs about work and managers, and where they relate to a bad situation. For example, say you used to work for a director who is not a sign of personal weakness used against you, and you are afraid, tell your current manager, if you need help or were a little soft. Make sure you have processed what you have learned the habit of a manager, and is not representative for all managers.

2. Calibrate the idea of "normal". Make it a point to operate, to look around and collect evidence, as other managers and workplaces. If you think to himself: "All managers are _____," try, test this against your current manager and current workplace. What evidence do you have about the way these managers? Your assumptions aligned with reality? If you do not have time to fix.

3. If you are going to have a negative performance in the workplace, ask yourself are, "is my current manager gave me the evidence I need to work this way?" Behaviors such as withholding information, talk problems only react defensively to feedback and usually expect the worst from their employer are behaviors you hurting reasonably functional healthy workplace in one place. If the manager does not give you the proof of your work in this way need, the problem is guaranteed to do that. Do not waste your current manager as someone who not to treat.

After all, imagine if you started a new job as the replacement of a former employee who was unreliable, incompetent and rude, and his new teammates treat you like their predecessors like. It seems not, or easy to work with fun, right? And of course it would not be logical or reasonable. With this in mind, be sure that you are not influenced too much by people who have worked hard in the past.

Alison Green writes the popular Ask the Manager blog that provides advice on career, job search, and management issues are. She is the author of "How to Get a Job: Secrets of a Hiring Manager", Co-author of "Managing to Change the World: for results of the Managers Guide Nonprofit" and former chief of staff, a non-profit organization successfully, where he for the day-to-day staff.