How is it that women can be one woman’s best friend one minute and another woman’s worst enemy the next? In my Junior High School years I felt that I had to prove my worth by the way I looked, how many boys liked me or how many friends I had. I have no interest […]
Mean Girls at the Office: Your Silence is Acceptance.
I was recently reading a book about how to handle mean girls at work. Much of the advice in this book was about how to placate, ignore and avoid upsetting these women (who were co-workers, not bosses). When all of the above failed, the book recommended handling your upset by going for a walk or […]
Basic Rules Of Engagement For The Workplace: Be The Co-worker You Wish You Were Working With
This past week I’ve been preparing for a speech I’m giving for Zonta International regarding conflict in the workplace. Not surprisingly, this preparation has led me to think quite a bit about work environments. In particular, I’ve been thinking about all the mean things co-workers are saying/doing and how much these behaviors are costing companies, […]