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Interpersonal Edge
Help readers be more effective in the workplace with improved communication skills. Daneen Skube's Q&A business advice column helps readers handle any situation, whether involving a co-worker, boss, employee or client. The column provides simple, practical answers to
everything from how to handle a passive-aggressive co-worker to how to tell your boss you've messed up. It's advice that gives readers a competitive advantage at the office. Great for classifieds.
Interpersonal Edge Samples
Make boss 'get real' about expectations
Q. My boss has ridiculous expectations about what I should do at work. A. Yes, you have to engage in two tasks to get your boss to "get real."
The secret to office time management
Q. Seems like every day I have 90 items on my to-do list and nothing gets done. A. Yes, there are actually two tricks; identify priorities and train people around you at work.
Success means multiple career plans
Q. I'm attempting to do career planning for 2012. A. You can cope effectively by realizing that only having one plan is no longer effective.
The secret to New Year's resolutions
Q. Everyone in my office is vowing to give up coffee, gossip or bad work habits. A. Yes, start by skipping New Year's resolutions. The truth is that our "bad" habits are actually serving a function for us.
Drooling over career daydream? Try it on!
Q. The last few years have been really hard in my industry. A. Yes, what I tell my clients who are considering far-flung dreams is to consider "borrowing" the career they fantasize about.
Is 2012 the end of work?
Q. I keep hearing about the Mayan prophecies, reading about increasing global issues, and hearing prophecies of economic and worldwide doom.
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