Should we pay New Year greetings to our leaders during the Spring Festival?

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, during the Lantern Festival, it is a Chinese New Year tradition to go to the homes of relatives and friends with gifts, say "Happy New Year", set off firecrackers, and have a New Year's dinner.

But do people in the workplace want to pay New Year greetings to their leaders, colleagues and customers?

Whether New Year greetings are made with a phone call, a text message, a WeChat message, or a visit with gifts, what are the considerations?

Today, Mr. Jia will tell you about the workplace tips for celebrating the Spring Festival.

01 Should I wish my leaders New Year greetings?

New Year greetings should be given to the leaders.

Why?

After all, China is a human society. The only way to deepen relationships between people is to come and go and move around each other, making them more comfortable and cordial. This has nothing to do with office politics and everything to do with integrity, independence, and honesty. There is no conflict in character.

Some children will say: "I do my duty better than anything else. Building relationships is not a necessity in the workplace."

Have you ever thought about what your superiors’ needs are in the workplace?

Let’s take a look at Maslow’s Pyramid of Needs:

Your superiors are either the “Leader” who leads you at work or the “Boss” who exploits you. Exceptionally, I hope my subordinates can meet their needs at both levels.

Safety needs: As a subordinate, you do a good job and have good performance, and the leader can explain to his superiors.

Respect needs: Leaders hope to have status and prestige, and to be respected, trusted and highly praised by their subordinates.

Doing a good job only satisfies the leader's basic safety needs. His deeper psychological need is to "be respected."

Now you finally understand why in the workplace, some people work carelessly, work hard to cultivate interpersonal relationships, and flatter their leaders all day long, but in the end they still get promotions and salary increases.

I didn’t expect that your “respect” is so important to a leader!

In this case, is it necessary to express your gratitude and respect to your superiors during the New Year?

02 What method should you choose to pay New Year greetings to your leaders?

According to the level of attention, visit > Phone > SMS/WeChat.

If there is no important matter, we won’t visit

Do you want to go to the leader’s house to pay New Year’s greetings?

My first advice is: go with the flow and make no mistakes.

Ask more colleagues to see how they handled it in previous years

If the company has this tradition, you can invite your colleagues to go together; if you ask ten people, no one will Been there before, you'd better not be original.

Why?

Because by default, bosses and subordinates keep a distance from each other during the holidays. If there is nothing important, do not interfere with their respective private lives. No one has been to the company, maybe it’s because the boss is disgusted?

The above is suitable for relatively simple children.

In the workplace, visiting your boss’s home is more likely because you “want something to ask for.”

You said: I want to visit you at home.

The boss will think: I must come, you must have something to do?

Next, his expectation is: equivalent exchange.

Okay, I want to ask my boss to assign me a good position and a good opportunity. What would you exchange for this position?

The problem is: asking people to do things, exchanging equal value, and doing what they like. Nine out of ten cases involve violations of laws, regulations, and disciplines. Bribery and bribery are shameful. You can judge for yourself, so I won’t talk about it here.

In another situation, your purpose is not to "ask for help", but simply to maintain and deepen your relationship with your superiors.

You want to leave a good impression on your boss as being sensible, but have you thought clearly that "equivalent exchange" must also be considered during this trip?

Visiting without a clear purpose actually takes up the other person’s private time and space. If you think you are trying to get closer and express your gratitude and loyalty, he may not be comfortable or even resentful.

Yes, let’s put it into perspective, there are seven days of New Year’s holiday, from New Year’s Eve to the seventh day of the Lunar New Year. On which day are you willing to spare some private time for work colleagues who are close to you?

You must go. What kind of gift should you consider during this trip, enough to exchange for your boss’s personal time?

If you cannot answer the above questions, it is recommended not to go.

The safest way is WeChat/SMS

Every New Year’s Eve, the phone will ring non-stop, most of which are copy-pasted New Year greetings on WeChat, exchanging greetings and expressing feelings. ...

Tired.

There is a saying: "The mass New Year greetings on WeChat are not sincere. I won't send them or reply."

My point of view is: This is a typical infantile disease and needs to be cured!

When he was a child, his parents said something: Favors come and go, and the leader does not pay special attention to who wishes him New Year greetings this year, but he remembers very clearly who did not wish him New Year greetings this year!

Early delivery is better than late delivery, single delivery is better than mass delivery, and mass delivery is better than no delivery. If you grasp these three principles, you will definitely be right.

Please pay attention to the following points when sending:

Time: It is generally appropriate to send New Year greetings to leaders one or two days in advance. It is best to say New Year greetings in advance on New Year's Eve and try not to delay it. After the first day of the new year. It is best to pay New Year greetings in the morning, not too early or too late, so as not to affect the leaders’ rest.

Content: Do not directly copy the pictures and texts widely circulated in WeChat groups. It is best to write a paragraph of text yourself. There is no need to make a long and elaborate statement, just be simple and express your sincere blessings.

Good health, abundant financial resources, and everything goes well.

The principle is just one word: stability