You're more likely to be heard if you can connect your disagreement to a higher purpose. When you do speak up, don't assume the link will be clear. You'll want to state it overtly, contextualizing your statements so that you're seen not as a disagreeable underling but as a colleague...
Research suggests that learning about your communication style and finding ways to replace aggressive responses with more assertive ones can help you communicate more effectively.2 Here are some ways to be more assertive in your communication style rather than being aggressive or passive: Ask for what...
3) The disagreeable perfectionist. This style with its emotional instability, low agreeableness, and high conscientiousness is vulnerable to workplace bullying. Often considered a “double-edged sword”, conscientiousness can be protective when focusing on work is used to distract from and alleviate ...
How to Be More Selfish From a young age, we are taught that one of the greatest risks to our integrity and flourishing is our own selfishness. We must – wherever possible – learn to think more about other people, keep in mind how often we ...
the trust of your leader. He must perceive you as his right hand man ... on his side, fighting together ... not fighting against him. That doesn't mean that you are a yes-man; often, you will find that you have a different opinion. How do you disagree without being disagreeable?
You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count. —Nancy Reagan 344 Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability...
Negative people are resisting, refusing, disagreeable, pessimistic, detrimental, destroying, and limiting. They don’t help you. They don’t make you stronger. Their number one goal is to SHUT YOU DOWN! And for no reason other than because they are negative. It has NOTHING to do with you...
Be more creative, is a phrase often used within business and marketing with little consideration given to its meaning. But, what does it mean to be creative?
is that disagreeable “windless calm” of the soul that precedes a happy voyage and cheerful breeze. There is nothing like boredom to make you write, agreed a young Agatha Christie. Maybe she could have achieved much more if she had a beanbag, some Lego and a zoot. Or maybe creativity is...
續上的問題,“if that's the case, you can always book a one-way ticket to Paris.”摘抄:目錄INTRODUCTION1. Get the BasicsAPHORISMS* Don't be afraid of ageing. As the saying goes, don't be afraid of anything but fear itself.* Find "your" perfume before you turn thirty. Wear if for...