Daily Archives: December 21, 2009

This fifth article in the series about being politically savvy in the workplace builds upon the foundational insights of the prior four articles:

Office Politics I addressed the issue of neutralizing a toxic person at your workplace instead of committing either of the two fatal errors of trying to make them a friend or treating them like an enemy. Instead, we want to neutralize their toxic affect upon the work environment.

Office Politics II showed you how to use public displays of camaraderie to neutralize the “behind your back” toxic communications.  Read more... (1103 words, estimated 4:25 mins reading time)

This third article in this series about being politically savvy in the workplace builds upon the foundational insights of the prior two articles.

Office Politics I addressed the issue of neutralizing a toxic person at your workplace instead of committing either of the two fatal errors of trying to make them a friend or treating them like an enemy. Instead, we want to neutralize their toxic effect upon the work environment.

Office Politics II showed you how to use public displays of camaraderie to neutralize “behind your back” toxic communications.  Read more... (726 words, estimated 2:54 mins reading time)

This second article in a series about being politically savvy in the workplace builds upon the foundational insight of neutralizing a toxic person at your workplace instead of committing either of the two fatal errors of trying to make them a friend or treating them like an enemy. Instead, we want to neutralize their toxic affect upon the work environment.

A Short Story  Read more... (870 words, estimated 3:29 mins reading time)

This first article in a series about being politically savvy in the workplace lays the foundation with a critical concept: how we position ourselves in relationship to a difficult personality in the workplace.

Two Common Errors That Lead to Failure

When faced with the challenge of a difficult personality in our workplace, we tend to go to one extreme or the other:

1. Error #1 – we may try to make the person our friend

2. Error #2 – we see them as an enemy  Read more... (423 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)