Do you dread going to work because you feel used, stifled, ignored or degraded? Not much can be worse, and few people realize how workplace politics works against the brain's ability to perform.
Fortunately, people who learn brain friendly tactics tend to win at office politics, and you'll be surprised how people beat the barriers in this way.
Let’s say you work at a place where your good efforts are rarely 
rewarded, while others do less, play politics better, and get regular rewards. Sound familiar? You’ll be happy to know that brain based tactics can turn politics into a winning hand, because workplace politics often mess with your mind. Now there’s a cutting edge for the next game you meet. Try one of these at a time… and see what works for you.
1. Find ways outside work to build more personal confidence. You might develop new skills for using a computer program that helps your department, and others will begin to see you more as the winner you are. When your brain moves in a direction of growth, you’ll relate to others more as a person in control of your own destiny at work. People tend to go after weaker workers, and a quiet intrapersonal strength can be your best armor when trouble strikes.
2. Offer to help co-workers and ask their perspectives on projects together. To develop relationships with others at work is to develop interpersonal intelligence all around. Of course, you’ll likely want to avoid close relationships with troublemakers – unless you see a benefit most of us miss when they come around. The brain often uses this positive energy, though to replace negative responses, and the synapses here can reboot to work in your favor.
3. Find ways to build goodwill, even with those who differ, and they’ll often reciprocate with goodwill. Ok… it may only mean they throw fewer darts at first, but over time, new dendrite brain cell connectors can be built among people. Learn the very doable skills of tone and use them daily, for instance, in spite of the poor tone created by negative political agendas. Tone modeled often brings electric enthusiasm which catches fire, especially when people see how it generates mind-bending profit.
4. Offer creative solutions for problems you see. Workplaces tend to reduce to poor politics when a leader cannot solve the problems that bring enthusiasm and profitability to a business. One mid-level manager got past the politics by rearranging tables so that people from different backgrounds sat together more. One simple shift of tables and chairs, broke up political prongs across three departments.
5. Rather than criticize the people who play poor politics, ask for feedback from others you respect, and that will improve your position at work. Or you might try to pull a sniper in for a solution. There is nothing as discouraging to groups who tear others down, than to see a person achieve and win so that rewards are visible.
Each of these tactics draws from unique parts of the brain, often hidden or unused when politics take over and spill the harmful chemical hormone cortisol into brains for continued destruction.
Is a political win worth a try?
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