Surviving the Toxic Workplace: Protect Yourself Against Coworkers, Bosses, and Work Environments That Poison Your Day
Surviving the Toxic Workplace: Protect Yourself Against Coworkers, Bosses, and Work Environments That Poison Your Day

Author: Linnda Durre

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2010-02-19

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0071667865

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Proven techniques for dealing with workplace issues successfully Do you dread going to work? Dealing with pestering coworkers, unmanageable managers, angry clients can take its toll on your job performance. And in these difficult economic times, no one can afford to lose their jobs. In Surviving the Toxic Workplace, syndicated author and psychotherapist Linnda Durre teaches you how to pinpoint and treat these office maladies with effective communication and conflict negotiation techniques that are sure to bring you peace of mind and peace at work. Surviving the Toxic Workplace shows you: Why these office conflicts erupt How to identify and treat the 12 most common types of toxic co-workers, situations, and environments The seven components of effective communication techniques you can use in various situations How to deal with different conflict styles Don't let office conflicts drain you of energy or interfere with your job performance. Treat the malady before it gets out of hand with Surviving the Toxic Workplace.

Toxic Workplace!
Toxic Workplace!

Author: Mitchell Kusy

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-04-01

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 0470464607

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“The day this person left our company is considered an annual holiday!” THIS QUOTE, taken from Kusy and Holloway’s research on toxic personalities, echoes the frustration and confusion that come from working with or managing an extremely difficult person. Just one toxic person has the capacity to debilitate individuals, teams, and even organizations. Toxic Workplace! is the first book to tackle the underlying systems issues that enable a toxic person to create a path of destruction in an organization, pervading others’ thoughts and energies, even undermining their very sense of well-being. Based on all-new research with over 400 leaders, many from the Fortune 500 list, this book illustrates how to manage existing toxic behaviors, create norms that prevent the growth or regrowth of toxic environments, and ultimately design organizational communities of respectful engagement. Kusy and Holloway’s research reveals the warning signs that indicate a serious behavioral problem and identifies how this toxicity spreads in systems with long-term effects on organizational climate, even after the person has left. Their two-year, cutting-edge research study provides very specific actions that leaders need to take to reduce both the intensity and frequency of toxic personalities at work. No other book provides this menu of options from a systems perspective with practical relevance in real work situations. You’ll learn how to identify the toxic personality and describe the leader reactions and approaches that typically don’t work. Toxic Workplace! provides hands-on approaches that work with research-based strategies at the individual, team, and organizational level.Toxic Workplace! will provide new insights on how leaders lead, how organizational cultures sustain themselves, and how teams deal with toxic personalities.

Toxic Coworkers
Toxic Coworkers

Author: Alan A. Cavaiola

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9781572242197

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In Toxic Coworkers, the authors pinpoint a variety of personality traits and disorders, showing how they come about and offering effective strategies for coping with them. They cover the range of familiar types, from hyperactives, histrionics, and sociopaths to narcissists and obsessive-compulsives and provide concrete techniques for surviving them. 12 charts.

Rising Above a Toxic Workplace
Rising Above a Toxic Workplace

Author: Gary Chapman

Publisher: Moody Publishers

Published: 2014-08-26

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 0802487440

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Learn how to thrive in—or escape from—a toxic work environment. Toxic organizations are rife with conflict, fear, and anger. The environment causes people to have physiological responses as if they’re in a fight-or-flight situation. Healthy people become ill. Colds, flu and stress-related illnesses such as heart attacks are more common. By contrast, in resonant organizations, people take fewer sick days and turnover is low. People smile, make jokes, talk openly and help one another." - Annie McKee (author, consultant) Many employees experience the reality of bullying bosses, poisonous people, and soul-crushing cultures on a daily basis. Rising Above a Toxic Workplace tells authentic stories from today's workers who share how they cope, change, or quit. Candidly they open up about what they learned, what they wish they had done, and how to gain resilience. Insightfully illustrating from these accounts, authors Gary Chapman, Paul White, and Harold Myra blend their combined experiences in ministry and business to deliver hope and practical guidance to those who find themselves in an unhealthy work environment. Includes a Survival Guide and Toolkit full of strategies and realistic insights

Workplace Anxiety
Workplace Anxiety

Author: David Leads

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-06-16

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 9781500612153

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We spend over a third of our weekday lives at work. We see our coworkers more than we see our family. Given all this time we spend working, it's crucial we're happy at work to be happy with life. So what do you do if just thinking about work makes you feel upset, anxious, worried, or just puts you in a bad mood? It's necessary to take charge of your life at work. But how do you do this? By actively managing the relationships you have with the people you work with - your boss and your coworkers. What This Book Can Do For You You can become stronger, more productive, and more fulfilled at work. This book teaches you how. Starting with an explanation of workplace anxiety, this book will help you identify where you're having problems at work. Next, this book provides you with simple tips and tactics you can use to immediately make your work life better. What do you do about a difficult or toxic boss? Learn to teach your boss how to work for you, around your best working style. What about competitive and combative coworkers? Minimize stress and increase your productivity at work with a few easy ways to improve your relationships with your coworkers, all while maintaining your job security. Last, this book discusses anxiety related to the fear of losing your job. Learn how to position yourself to either save your job or quickly find a new one by empowering yourself and making it clear just how much value you provide. This book will help you create better relationships at work and be happier at work but this book is not a substitute for professional help. If you are having severe workplace anxiety that prevents normal daily functioning, then please go seek professional help too. The happier and more fulfilled you are at work, the happier and more fulfilled you will be in your life.

The No Asshole Rule
The No Asshole Rule

Author: Robert I. Sutton

Publisher: Business Plus

Published: 2007-02-22

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 0759518017

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The definitive guide to working with -- and surviving -- bullies, creeps, jerks, tyrants, tormentors, despots, backstabbers, egomaniacs, and all the other assholes who do their best to destroy you at work. "What an asshole!" How many times have you said that about someone at work? You're not alone! In this groundbreaking book, Stanford University professor Robert I. Sutton builds on his acclaimed Harvard Business Review article to show you the best ways to deal with assholes...and why they can be so destructive to your company. Practical, compassionate, and in places downright funny, this guide offers: Strategies on how to pinpoint and eliminate negative influences for good Illuminating case histories from major organizations A self-diagnostic test and a program to identify and keep your own "inner jerk" from coming out The No Asshole Rule is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Business Week bestseller.

Ask a Manager
Ask a Manager

Author: Alison Green

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2018-05-01

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0399181822

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From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

Online Dating
Online Dating

Author: Robert Moore

Publisher:

Published: 2016-10-16

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 9781539552086

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Right now, in your hands... ...You have a powerful tool to meet and attract new women in your life!No, I'm not talking about your D. The powerful tool is your phone - or your PC! Just imagine how great would it be to know EXACTLY WHAT TO SAY to persuade that hot girl to come home with you... - just by chatting online!Online Dating Training - Become a Master of Digital Seduction! is here to help! This book will help you save time, energy and money as it gives you all the most important techniques and strategies for you to build a badass profile, attract new girls and... f*ck them in real life! In this book you will find: The Best Online Dating Websites, where you can find all kinds of horny women! Facebook Seduction on Steroids: a step-by-step guide to building a profile that screams BADASSERY! How to Find Fvck Buddies on Facebook: a simple process that works anytime, with anyone! Secret Routines to become a master of the art of Chatting - instantly! How to Transition from Virtual to Reality - you're doing this wrong! How to Skyrocket your reply rates on Tinder and Facebook! ...and much more! The online dating world is highly competitive, that is why it is so important for you to know all the things that you should do and should not do in order to be successful!This book will teach you how to build a bulletproof, charming, unique profile that will attract new girls and relight the fire of passion in the women in your life. Your message reply rate will skyrocket... your inbox will be full and your dating life will be as busy as you want it. In two words: MORE DATES.So get your own copy of Online Dating Training TODAY! It will be the best decision you ever make!Good luck my friend!

The Asshole Survival Guide
The Asshole Survival Guide

Author: Robert I. Sutton

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2017-09-12

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1328695921

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“This book is a contemporary classic—a shrewd and spirited guide to protecting ourselves from the jerks, bullies, tyrants, and trolls who seek to demean. We desperately need this antidote to the a-holes in our midst.”—Daniel H. Pink, best-selling author of To Sell Is Human and Drive How to avoid, outwit, and disarm assholes, from the author of the classic The No Asshole Rule As entertaining as it is useful, The Asshole Survival Guide delivers a cogent and methodical game plan for anybody who feels plagued by assholes. Sutton starts with diagnosis—what kind of asshole problem, exactly, are you dealing with? From there, he provides field-tested, evidence-based, and often surprising strategies for dealing with assholes—avoiding them, outwitting them, disarming them, sending them packing, and developing protective psychological armor. Sutton even teaches readers how to look inward to stifle their own inner jackass. Ultimately, this survival guide is about developing an outlook and personal plan that will help you preserve the sanity in your work life, and rescue all those perfectly good days from being ruined by some jerk. “Thought-provoking and often hilarious . . . An indispensable resource.”—Gretchen Rubin, best-selling author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before “At last . . . clear steps for rejecting, deflecting, and deflating the jerks who blight our lives . . . Useful, evidence-based, and fun to read.”—Robert Cialdini, best-selling author of Influence and Pre-Suasion

Why Does He Do That?
Why Does He Do That?

Author: Lundy Bancroft

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780425191651

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In this groundbreaking bestseller, Lundy Bancroft—a counselor who specializes in working with abusive men—uses his knowledge about how abusers think to help women recognize when they are being controlled or devalued, and to find ways to get free of an abusive relationship. He says he loves you. So...why does he do that? You’ve asked yourself this question again and again. Now you have the chance to see inside the minds of angry and controlling men—and change your life. In Why Does He Do That? you will learn about: • The early warning signs of abuse • The nature of abusive thinking • Myths about abusers • Ten abusive personality types • The role of drugs and alcohol • What you can fix, and what you can’t • And how to get out of an abusive relationship safely “This is without a doubt the most informative and useful book yet written on the subject of abusive men. Women who are armed with the insights found in these pages will be on the road to recovering control of their lives.”—Jay G. Silverman, Ph.D., Director, Violence Prevention Programs, Harvard School of Public Health