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Celebrate Valentine’s Day at Work without Spending Money
Many organizations spend more money than they have to on employee recognition gifts and appreciation programs that often involve bonuses, paid time off, contests, gifts, and other expensive forms of...
View ArticleWear Less Perfume and Enhance Your Professional Reputation
Wearing too much perfume or cologne will make people scatter, or wish they could. Unfortunately, rather than tell you that you’re wearing too much, people will just avoid sitting near you. Scent is...
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Give Feedback When You’re Not Upset
We’ve all received work from another person that wasn’t what we were expecting, hit reply, and told the other person what we thought. Then we dealt with the consequences. A few tips for giving feedback...
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Make It Easy to Give You Feedback
The normal, human response to negative feedback is to become defensive. Becoming defensive is a survival instinct, like hitting your breaks when the car in front of you stops short. It’s almost...
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Ask for Regular Feedback and Take Control of Your Career
Most people wait way too long to give feedback. We wait for the right time, aka when we’re comfortable. That day will not come. Instead of waiting to give feedback until you’re about to explode in...
View ArticleThe Feedback Formula – Give Feedback in Two Minutes or Less
The Feedback Formula: 1. Introduce the conversation so feedback recipients know what to expect. 2. Empathize so both the feedback provider and the recipient feel as comfortable as possible. 3. Describe...
View ArticleGiving Feedback? Just the Facts.
Most of the feedback we give and receive puts people on the defensive. We don’t do this intentionally. It just happens. We say how we feel, usually when we’re upset, and the other person responds. Most...
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Give Employee Feedback Better and Be Heard
The normal, natural reaction to negative feedback is to become defensive, a response I’ve recently labeled as The Freak Out. Everyone, even the people you think do little work, wants to be seen as good...
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To Manage Your Professional Reputation, Learn Who’s On Your Team
You will be passed over for jobs, projects, and second dates and never know why. Being passed over isn’t necessarily a bad thing, not knowing why is problematic. If you don’t know why you’re being...
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How to Change Your Reputation at Work – Eight Steps
If you took my advice last week and asked your boss who impacts the decisions made about you at work and what those people think of you, you probably got some feedback. The question is, what should you...
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Working with Difficult People – When to Give Up
Unless you never interact with other people, there’s probably someone in your life who repeatedly engages in a behavior that annoys you. You’ve probably made requests about what you’d like to the...
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Receiving Feedback Allows You to Manage Your Career
Who have you fired lately? The person who cuts your hair or lawn? A doctor, accountant, or restaurant where you had a bad experience? Did you call any of those providers and tell them why you were...
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Ask for Feedback and Take Control of Your Career
Most people wait way too long to give feedback. We wait for the right time, aka when we’re comfortable. That day will not come. Instead of waiting to give feedback until you’re about to explode in...
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Working with Difficult People – When to Give Up
Unless you never interact with other people, there’s probably someone in your life who repeatedly engages in a behavior that annoys you. You’ve probably made requests about what you’d like to the...
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Give Employee Feedback Better and Be Heard
The normal, natural reaction to negative feedback is to become defensive, a response I’ve labeled as The Freak Out. Everyone, even the people you think do little work, wants to be seen as good –...
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How to Change Your Reputation at Work – Eight Steps
We know impressions are made quickly and are hard to change. But it’s not impossible to repair your reputation. If you want to change how people see you, I’d suggest being very overt about the changes...
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To Manage Your Professional Reputation, Learn Who’s On Your Team
You will be passed over for jobs, projects, and second dates and never know why. Being passed over isn’t necessarily a bad thing, not knowing why is problematic. If you don’t know why you’re being...
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Ask for Feedback and Take Control of Your Career
Most people wait way too long to give feedback. We wait for the right time, aka when we’re comfortable. That day will not come. Instead of waiting to give feedback until you’re about to explode in...
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Wearing Too Much Perfume to Work?
Wearing too much perfume or cologne will make people scatter, or wish they could. Unfortunately, rather than tell you that you’re wearing too much, people will just avoid sitting near you. Scent is...
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The Feedback Formula – Give Feedback in Two Minutes or Less
The Feedback Formula: 1. Introduce the conversation so feedback recipients know what to expect. 2. Share your motive for speaking so both the feedback provider and the recipient feel as comfortable as...
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