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Coping With Critical Coworkers
Following are four common sense tips to sustain your sanity when dealing with overly-critical co-workers, clients, supervisors or any other "nay-sayer" in your life based on my workbook Love Your Work:
- Take the time and effort to step into his (or her) moccasins and view things from their perspective instead of yours.
- Remember a time in your life when you experienced similar events/feelings.
- Keeping all that information in mind, construct strategies to help you understand who they are what they think and feel and why they behave like they do even better.
- When all else fails, politely remind them (or maybe just yourself if the critical one happens to hold a position authority over you) of the wise words of Frank A. Clark, "Lots of faults we think we see in others are simply the ones we expect to find there because we have them."
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JOEL GARFINKLE is recognized as one of the top 50 coaches in the U.S., and the author of 7 books, including Getting Ahead: Three Steps to Take Your Career to the Next Level. He has worked with many of the world’s leading companies, including Google, Deloitte, Amazon, Ritz-Carlton, Gap, Cisco, Oracle, and many more. Visit Joel online at Garfinkle Executive Coaching. Subscribe to his Fulfillment@Work Newsletter and receive the FREE e-book, 40 Proven Strategies to Get Promoted Now!”
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