How Do You Deal With Someone Who Is Overreacting At Work?
If you have to work with someone who is constantly overreacting, work can quickly become a stressful place. Whether it’s your boss, a colleague or one of the employees on your team, dealing with people who have a tendency to overreact to everything can take an awful lot of energy.
What Is Micromanagement and Why Is It So Dangerous?
Generally speaking, leaders want to be the best leader they can possibly be. They want their teams to perform as best as possible. Sometimes, this desire can lead to micromanagement. What starts off as a desire to ensure high performance can turn into a need to oversee everything. The problem
Why Blaming Doesn’t Work and What You Can Do Differently
Have you ever gotten so frustrated, so upset that you immediately blamed someone else for the situation? Even if you already knew that blaming doesn’t work? Be honest with yourself now… It’s happened to all of us. I know that I’ve certainly been guilty of it more times than I’d
How to Ask for Clarification in an Email
You know those emails you receive where you don’t even understand what’s being asked of you? You’re left feeling confused – not sure if you’re even supposed to do something. Or if you are, you aren’t clear what exactly is being asked of you. Maybe you sent a reply to
Why It’s So Important to Work With Different Personalities
We all know how challenging it can be to work with people who have different personalities than our own. Have you ever noticed that you’re instantly drawn towards people who think like you? It’s a natural phenomenon, known as the affinity bias. The affinity bias basically means that we’re automatically
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