{"id":9774,"date":"2018-01-31T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/doinglifetogether\/?p=9774"},"modified":"2018-01-28T18:34:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T23:34:32","slug":"benefits-office-popularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/doinglifetogether\/2018\/01\/benefits-office-popularity.html","title":{"rendered":"The Benefits of Office Popularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9911\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/258\/2018\/01\/meeting-1702638_1280-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"meeting-1702638_1280\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Here&#8217;s a question you probably haven&#8217;t been asked since high school. How popular are you at your office or place of work? Hmmm&#8230;you are probably thinking, why does this even matter? Didn&#8217;t I leave all the drama behind when I left high school?<\/p>\n<p>Actually office popularity does matter. Psychology professor Mitch Prinstein (UNC Chapel Hill) can list a number of benefits from office popularity including a better chance at getting hired, promoted and getting a salary increase.<\/p>\n<p>And\u00a0just like that football star who thought he was all that, trying to be important and gain power and attention isn&#8217;t the kind of office popularity you want to embrace. Remember how you found that type of person obnoxious and self-serving? Being arrogant and self-promoting can\u00a0lead people to not like\u00a0you. They may even stay away from you!<\/p>\n<p>The healthy way to be liked at work is to work on your likability. This usually means valuing the people around you. Basically, care about others and be a kind, good hearted person who works well with others.<\/p>\n<p>And here is an interesting point about being liked at the work place. It&#8217;s all about asking questions and follow up questions. Now most of us would rather talk about our ideas, experiences and opinions. Mitch Prinstein, author\u00a0of<em> Popular: The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World<\/em>\u00a0tells us to go ahead, question-ask questions that probe into other peoples&#8217; lives and ideas. Don&#8217;t make conversation all about you. Asking about your co-woker signals interest and gives likability.<\/p>\n<p>And one more characteristics deemed important and related to being likable: Be humble. People like humble people. They see a humble person as someone interested in the goals of an organization rather than personal gain. Humility is also tied to good job performance.\u00a0Humble co-workers are often generous and helpful in times of need. So put on humility! It is a self-less trait that wins the day and other people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a question you probably haven&#8217;t been asked since high school. How popular are you at your office or place of work? Hmmm&#8230;you are probably thinking, why does this even matter? Didn&#8217;t I leave all the drama behind when I left high school? Actually office popularity does matter. Psychology professor Mitch Prinstein (UNC Chapel Hill)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1057],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work-relationships"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Benefits of Office Popularity<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/doinglifetogether\/2018\/01\/benefits-office-popularity.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Benefits of Office Popularity\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here&#8217;s a question you probably haven&#8217;t been asked since high school. 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