1. Switch Your Seat 换位子
Change your outlook at the office by changing your office -- literally2. Ask your supervisor3 to help you find a new desk, office, or cube to call home. Even switching desks with a neighboring coworker can offer a fresh perspective.
If its not possible to change your location, see if you can change how your desk is oriented. A new perspective can be just as refreshing4 as a new location.
2. Change Your Commute5 改变上班路线
Start and end your day in a different way by making changes to your commute. Consider a new mode of transportation, if its possible. Take a subway. Ride a bike on sunny days. Carpool with a coworker. Use a new route to get to your job. You neednt change your commute permanently6 -- just long enough to help you escape the doldrums.
3. Find a New Way to Work 新的工作方式
Shake things up at the office by changing how things get done. 以改变做事方式来对办公室的生活洗牌。
Sick of attending that long-standing Monday morning meeting Try to rally your boss to change it to the afternoon.
If you find yourself feeling most bored in the afternoons, try to arrange to do your favorite tasks then and tackle less desirable projects in the mornings.
If you usually communicate with coworkers via email and instant messaging, start dealing7 with people face to face. Increased interaction with coworkers may help improve your mood. 如果你总是通过电子邮件和即时通讯软件与同事交流，那么开始和人们面对面交流。和同事交往度提高可以帮助你改善心情。
4. Get and Set a Goal 定目标
If youre not working toward something, its no wonder that work has become boring. Identify a goal and set an achieve by date for it.
Your goal neednt be lofty as long as you have sufficient enthusiasm for it. Perhaps you want to tackle a new project. Maybe youd like to pursue a promotion8. Or you may even set a goal of finding a new job altogether. Whatever it is, actively9 moving toward an objective will make work much more interesting.
扩展：你会表现团队精神吗
When it comes to choosing a candidate for a new job or a promotion2, employers consistently say they want a team player. 谈到雇用新员工和晋升下属时，雇主们总是说他们想要有团队精神的候选人。
This means someone who can put the team goals and the team accountability ahead of their own individual situation, says Steve Kass, president for the Great Plains district of Robert Half International. Robert Half International, Great Plains区总裁Steve Kass认为团队精神就是将团队目标和团队责任位于个人之上。
But how, exactly, do you go about showing that youre a team player Experts offer the following five suggestions for concrete ways you can show your dedication3 to the team. 可到底怎样表现才能表明自己具有团队精神呢下面是专家给出的五个具体建议，让你表现出在为整个团队效力。
1. Meet your deadlines. 按时完成任务
When Accountemps, a division of RHI, surveyed senior executives at large companies about what it meant to be a team player, the most common reply was meets deadlines.
When youre doing one part of a larger project, as is often the case when youre on a team at work, you can hold up everyone else if you dont get your work done on time. A good team player is someone other team members know they can depend on.
2. Be candid1. 坦诚
Glenn Parker, a team-building consultant4 in Princeton, N.J. and author of Team Players and Teamwork: New Strategies for Developing Successful Collaboration, believes companies used to have a one-dimensional view of a team player: someone who worked hard and didnt ask questions. But the world has changed, he says. The idea of just supporting things is not as valued as it was.
Indeed, in the Accountemps survey, supports his or her manager was low on the list of qualities a team player should have. This doesnt mean managers want to be undermined -- but many do appreciate suggestions and constructive5 criticism.
3. Adapt quickly. 迅速适应
You may work with teams whose members are in different locations. Its likely youll be a member of several different teams at work, too, each focused on a different goal.
Today, with advances in technology, increased globalization and more diversity in the workplace, team players need to be more complex, adaptive, creative and flexible, Parker says.
One way to demonstrate how adaptable6 you are is to offer to change the way you work if it seems like it would help your teammates, Kass said.
Attitude is important, too. People used to assume that trust among team members had to be built over a long period. In todays fast-paced business world, there may not be time for that. So, Parker says, successful team members begin by assuming that their coworkers are capable, dependable, and engaged.
4. Appreciate others work styles. 欣赏别人的工作风格
One person may be good at facilitating communication; another likes to challenge the groups assumptions. The best teams will have a mix of these styles and members who appreciate each others contributions.
The really good team player, regardless of style, is somebody who can understand and appreciate and work with people whose style is different from theirs, Parker says.
5. Avoid politics. 避免办公室政治
In Accountemps survey, avoiding politics was second only to meeting deadlines when it came to defining a good team player. This means, says Kass, that you dont let yourself get distracted by issues that arent crucial to the teams mission.
