Howto: Recover from Mistakes at Work
I've been having One of Those Days. You know the kind I'm talking about.
Missed the morning client meeting that I don't remember noticing on the calendar before.
Accidentally hung up on an important media contact while fumbling with the phone.
Could've sworn that I dropped that VERY IMPORTANT, DUE TODAY bill in the mail...and yet here it sits on my desk under a pile of unfiled files.
Sounds familiar, right?
The best remedy I can think of for a day like this is to go home, curl up on the sofa with a glass of wine, and blot out the memory of today with mindless TV (too bad "America's Next Top Model" is on tomorrow night!).
But unfortunately, professionals like us can't handle mistakes like that (at least not all the time).
So how do we recover from the mistakes that ding our days and, in some cases, can even damage our reputations and our careers?
Missed the morning client meeting that I don't remember noticing on the calendar before.
Accidentally hung up on an important media contact while fumbling with the phone.
Could've sworn that I dropped that VERY IMPORTANT, DUE TODAY bill in the mail...and yet here it sits on my desk under a pile of unfiled files.
Sounds familiar, right?
The best remedy I can think of for a day like this is to go home, curl up on the sofa with a glass of wine, and blot out the memory of today with mindless TV (too bad "America's Next Top Model" is on tomorrow night!).
But unfortunately, professionals like us can't handle mistakes like that (at least not all the time).
So how do we recover from the mistakes that ding our days and, in some cases, can even damage our reputations and our careers?
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Labels: workplace-survival
posted by Michelle Yozzo Drake at 9:00 AM
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