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5 Super Awkward WFH Moments You’ve Probably Experienced
Five Awkward Moments during WFH
- Realizing your topwear has been the same all week in your virtual team meetings and presentations.
- Bottomwear is now strictly Yoga pants, but it’s awkward if noticed on a zoom call.
- Talking over others, due to tech glitches like a bad network, mute button hell, and hard-to-guess visual cues.
- Our pets making a grand entry from behind, inside our zoom call.
- Pretentious laughing over a joke we don’t get, especially related to the office you’ve never been to.
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We all have socially awkward experiences, but what makes a social interaction so uncomfortable? Research has pointed to 10 kinds of experiences that are especially likely to make people feel awkward, and 6 things people can do to escape from the awkwardness (without just walking away) and feel comfortable again.
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Decreasing Awkwardness
- Find common interests and discuss them.
- Encourage others to talk about what interests them.
- Be gentle or help someone out, even if it is on a small thing.
Situations That Lead To Awkwardness
- Walking into a room where you don't know any of the other people.
- Being in a situation in which you don't know what you are supposed to do.
- You are all talking amongst yourself and an unknown person approaches the group.
- When a conversation does not go smoothly.
- Discomfort around food.
- Invading someone else's personal space—or having your own space invaded.
- Not remembering someone or their name or not being remembered.
- Been put in the spotlight or when others start talking about you while you are in the same room.
Tackling Trust Issues
It is quite possible that certain employees are not trusted by the manager, and there is a lack of confidence in their abilities. The employees are given lower-quality work or are micro-man...
Competent, Reliable and Trustworthy
- Once there is clarity, one needs to enhance the bosses perception about being competent, reliable and trustworthy. Playing on one’s strengths while correcting the weak areas is a good initial strategy.
- Have frequent check-ins to ensure there is no derailment, or to make any course correction.
- Provide a plan of action that is tangible, measurable and showcases your progress in a visual, clear way.
- Provide daily or weekly updates about your activities and try to appear bold and confident.
Being Transparent With Your Work
- Do not protest if you still get lower-quality work, as it may lead to the boss believing that you should not be given higher-quality work, just like before.
- Be transparent and forthcoming and the work with your boss rather than providing them with bad news at the last moment.
- Do not rush towards becoming a ‘hero’ right away, and try to make steady progress, demonstrating your competence.
But often, the most difficult conversations are moments within our everyday communication. So from introducing yourself to someone new to tripping over your words, we've pinpointed some of the most awkward conversational pratfalls and how to overcome them. Many times, the hardest part of a conversation is starting it.
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The Most Awkward Conversational Pratfalls
- Approaching for the first time someone you don’t know: focus on them, ask about them and approach humbly.
- Deciding when to end a conversation: you can end the conversatio...