Taking Work Relationships Seriously
Good relationships with everyone you deal with at work are central to your well-being and ability to get things done. There may come times when you have to sacrifice colleagues’ trust or warmth for some higher cause. But those times are rare.
Yet many of us, when something’s pressing our buttons, become spiky.
Breathe, check yourself, chew it over with someone wise. There’s almost always an approach that addresses whatever’s troubling you and strengthens relationships.
Of course, it helps if everyone else takes the same approach.
Webinars
Thanks so much to those who responded to a survey a few weeks ago asking whether you’d be interested in free webinars on Great Work topics. Some of you are keen! The most popular topic was coping with mistakes, complaints, and litigation—but with several runner-up topics, including making difficult conversations easy. I may test out a webinar or two later in the year.