
How to Deal with a Workplace Saboteur
Workplace saboteurs aren’t common, but they are a huge source of frustration when you encounter one. Christine, from Melbourne, Australia, described a classic example:
Workplace saboteurs aren’t common, but they are a huge source of frustration when you encounter one. Christine, from Melbourne, Australia, described a classic example:
Most of us have ‘internal customers’ – people in our own company who rely on us to provide them with some level of service or support. Unfortunately, just as there are difficult external customers, there are also difficult internal customers.
It is important to keep in mind that the customer service our end-customers receive is really just the end of long, interconnected chains of internal service experiences.
60 Seconds That Make a Difference to Your Coworkers Want to make a difference
If you’re like most people, though, even though you know how important the skill of listening is, you’ve probably never taken the time to actively improve that skill.
It’s a beautiful day, you like your job, you’ve got a good boss, and the universe is unfolding as it should. The next thing you know, that negative coworker of yours walks in with that black cloud over their head, and sucks the life right out of you. They are the poster children for bad attitude.
Idea-trashing coworkers from Hell. They rarely have positive things to contribute, preferring instead to tell you why things are Bad Ideas or why they won’t work. They aren’t fun to work with.
Before you condemn a customer, colleague or boss for not explaining something well or of not paying close enough attention to your instructions, ask yourself these six things:
How to Deal With a Cold Coworker When these coworkers walk into the room, everyone
Let’s start with the bad news: The old saw is true – blood is thicker than water. Particularly when it comes to sons and daughters, bosses will seemingly forgive, overlook, and rationalize just about everything.
When You Talk,
Are People Listening?
Do you sometimes feel as though people don’t take you seriously? That they don’t really listen to what you are saying even when it’s important?
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