最宝贵的员工：缓解紧张的高手

 　　The Most Valuable Employees： Tame Tensions

　　最宝贵的员工：缓解紧张的高手

　　4 Workplace Peacekeepers Who Get Attention

　　引起上司注意的4中职场调解员

　　Furloughs, layoffs¹, burdened bosses, and stressed coworkers: Tension can stifleyour office and kill productivity. But if you can defusethat tension, you may also be making yourself a valuable employee, even if you're not the manager.

　　休假、裁员、承受超负荷的老板、处于高压中的同事：紧张会使你的办公室生活窒息，扼杀你的产能。但是如果你能够消除这份紧张，即使你不是经理，你也可以成为一名有价值的员工。

　　"Being the office tension manager can be a wonderful reputation to have," says corporate² trainer Marlene Caroselli. "Every time you resolve a conflict you really enhance your own skills."

　　企业培训家Marlene Caroselli说：“成为办公室的解压经理会为你应得不错的名声，每当你解决了一次冲突，你就确确实实的提高了自己的能力。”

　　Consider these four types of tension tamers:

　　参考以下四种紧缓解紧张的高手：

　　The Charmer

　　有魅力的人

　　"They know the exact moment to insert humor that breaks the tension at work," says Kathi Elster, coauthorof "Working With You Is Killing³ Me."

　　"Working With You Is Killing Me."一书的作者Kathi Elster说：“他们能够把握最佳时机插入幽默来打破工作上的紧张。”

　　The charmer doesn't crack one-liners or riff on the boss's toupee⁴, though. Instead, she:

　　虽然有魅力的人不会说一些俏皮话或是拿老板的假发开刷，但是她会：

　　1) Focuses on policies, not people. "It could be a lot of fun to make fun of a mean boss, but it doesn't cut tension because it has a dark edge and it could get you into trouble," said Elster's coauthor Katherine Crowley.

　　将调侃重点放在政策上，而不是针对人。Elster的合著者Katherine Crowley说：“虽然拿吝啬的上司开玩笑会有很多乐趣，但并不会消除大家的紧张感，因为这是一个黑色地带，还有可能会给你带来麻烦。”

　　2) Tests the office humor quotient. "We work with a high-tech⁵ company where all the staff have piercings and tattoos," said Crowley. "Their tension-cutting jokes are going to be very different than the jokes at a bank."

　　测试办公室幽默情商。Crowley说：“我们在一家高科技公司工作，里面所有的员工都有刺青。他们缓解紧张时说的笑话肯定和银行的大大不同。”

　　3) Renames it. Reframe furloughs as "funloughs" and say it lightly, with confidence that everything will work out.

　　重新命名。将 “furloughs”重新命名为“funloughs”，并用轻松地，相信一切都将搞定的语气说出来。

　　The Big Thinker

　　深谋远虑者

　　"Very few things are life-or-death, unless you're working in an emergency room," says Crowley.

　　Crowley说：“除非你是在急诊室工作，否则没多少事情是生命攸关的。”

　　The big thinker puts workplace tension in perspective, cutting it by reminding people that what's happening now is temporary -- even if it is the recession.

　　深谋远虑者会正确透视职场上的紧张，通过提醒同事现在发生的事情只是临时的(即使是经济不景气也是一样的)来消除大家的紧张。

1 layoffs   

临时解雇( layoff的名词复数 )； 停工，停止活动

参考例句：

• Textile companies announced 2000 fresh layoffs last week. 各纺织公司上周宣布再次裁员两千人。
• Stock prices broke when the firm suddenly announced layoffs. 当公司突然宣布裁员时，股票价格便大跌

2 corporate   

adj.共同的，全体的；公司的，企业的

参考例句：

• This is our corporate responsibility.这是我们共同的责任。
• His corporate's life will be as short as a rabbit's tail.他的公司的寿命是兔子尾巴长不了。

3 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

4 toupee   

n.假发

参考例句：

• When he grew bald he bought a toupee.头发掉了后，他买了一顶假发。
• While I was writing that last paragraph,the nurse straightened my toupee.我写最后一段的时候，护士正了正我的假发。

5 high-tech   

adj.高科技的

参考例句：

• The economy is in the upswing which makes high-tech services in more demand too.经济在蓬勃发展，这就使对高科技服务的需求量也在加大。
• The quest of a cure for disease with high-tech has never ceased. 人们希望运用高科技治疗疾病的追求从未停止过。