Your colleague is the first one in and the last one to leave. They volunteer to take on every additional task that comes your team’s way and they respond to emails within minutes. They’re working all the time, whether from the office or from home. 【小题1】

Dealing with a workaholic colleague can be challenging, but there are steps you can take to ease the negative effects of their behavior on yourself and your team.

Depersonalize their actions.

While it’s tempting to assume that your colleague is overworking in an attempt to outshine you, this is a classic example of a cognitive bias (偏差). In social psychology, this refers to the tendency humans have to owe another person’s actions to their character or personality, while crediting our own behavior to external or situational factors that are outside our control. 【小题2】 Debias (消除偏见) your thinking by considering other reasons for their behavior.

Resist peer pressure.

【小题3】 You may start comparing your capacity and output to theirs and wonder, “Am I really working hard enough?” Before you begin overextending yourself in an effort to “catch up”, mind your mindset and be aware of extremist thinking. Taking time off for self-care isn’t indulgent (纵容的), rather it’s a precondition for your performance.

【小题4】

Workaholics tend to have few boundaries. You’ll need to play defense by managing their expectations around your response times and availability. Let’s say your colleague asks you to turn around a project brief in less than 24 hours. You can push back and explain, “That’s not possible. If you have this sort of task in the future, I’ll need at least a three day’s notice to work it into my schedule.” You might also advocate for better systems and processes that remove the need for excess effort.

Finally, remember to adjust your perspective on productivity. While it may be tempting to evaluate your daily success based on the number of hours you work, it’s the quality of work you deliver that matters most. 【小题5】

Bruce is a manager who had a team of around 40 people. Most of them were bright, enthusiastic, and hardworking young people. 【小题1】 Individually, everyone on the team is excellent. But as a team, they are not good, which is crucial for the organization.

【小题2】 He invited everyone to a hall for a game consisting of 3 rounds. For the first round, he told everyone to blow a balloon kept on the table and then write their name on it without bursting it. All the team members blew the balloon and wrote their name on it. 【小题3】 After some time, he called them back to the room. Now there were more balloons scattered(分散的)around without names on them. He told that they had 15 minutes to find the balloon with their name written on it. After 15 minutes, he stopped the round as no one got their balloons.

For the next round, Bruce told them if any team member found a balloon with a name on it, he or she had to give the balloon to the person whose name was on it. Everyone started searching, and within a couple of minutes, everyone had their own balloon with their name on it. Bruce went to the platform and said, “You see, in the second round, no one was able to find their balloons as we were working on individual targets. But in the final round, within a couple of minutes, everyone had their balloon with them. 【小题4】 ”

Most of the time, people hide information, avoid cooperation, and distance themselves from their team members. 【小题5】 And in the long run, it also affects the individual. So, everyone in the team should share and care with team members for team success. We should communicate, share and work effectively for greater ambition for the team.

Whether you want to improve your writing skills as a creative writer or simply perfect your skills for schoolwork, you can take some steps to learn how to be a better writer.

In English, the most basic sentence structure is S-V-O: Subject-Verb-Object. The passive voice usually requires more words and use of a “to be” verb form, which can suck the energy out of your writing. Learn to avoid these constructions as much as you can. 【小题1】 It conventionally uses the passive voice to put the emphasis on the results, rather than the researchers.

Finding the right verb or adjective can turn an uninspired sentence into one people will remember and quote for years to come. Look for words that are as specific as possible. Strong doesn't mean obscure, or more complicated. Don't say "utilize" when you could say "use." 【小题3】

【小题4】 You don't get points for saying in 50 words what could be said in 20, or for using multi-syllable words when a short one does just as well. It might feel good at first to pack a lot of ideas and details into a single sentence, but chances are that sentence is just going to be hard to read. If a phrase doesn't add anything valuable, just cut it. 【小题5】 If you notice that your writing is filled with "-ly" words, it might be time to take a deep breath and give your writing more focus.