-
Step 1
Take care of your work environment. Your co-workers can see your work space, especially if you are in a cubicle paradise. If you keep your work space and the common areas clean, everyone will be calmer when they are around you.
-
Step 2
Mind you manners. This includes, but goes beyond, the simple please and thank you. You should still be polite in other ways. For example, don't try to force your political or religious beliefs on your co-workers. Co-workers seek each other during the work day to relieve stress, not to become more stressed.
-
Step 3
Be on time. Your time is never more important than other co-workers' time. So don't be late for your meetings. Your co-workers respect you enough to take away from their schedules to meet with you. You could at least do the same.
-
Step 4
Let the buck stop with you. This means take responsibility for your own faults and your successes. Don't claim other people's work as your own, and don't push your failures onto a co-worker.
-
Step 5
Come up with polite ways to respond when you feel that your co-workers and supervisors are not respecting you. You could say, "I am interested in hearing more of your criticism, but I would appreciate it if you made it less personal." Or you could say, "Please don't say things like that when I'm around. It makes me uncomfortable."
