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Category: Positive communication

I shut down my screaming boss the first time he raised his voice at me

February 15, 2018 Catherine Goetze

Demanding a respectful attitude early in your relationship with a superior is key to establishing a harmonious and professional workplace environment. What are other tactics

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A Seat At the Table

December 29, 2017 Catherine Goetze

“Don’t boycott controversy. Shroud yourself in it. Build a Trojan Horse and invade it from within.” – how can women get a seat at the

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Back-Stabbing Colleague Gossiping with the Boss

September 9, 2017 Catherine Goetze

“It felt very empowering to articulate what was going on to the people hurting me.”   What happened?  A coworker, who was supposed to be

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He refused to leave my hotel room at a conference

July 24, 2017 Catherine Goetze

“For the next several hours, I couldn’t find a way to get him out of the room short of physical confrontation, and had to continuously

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I was marginalized after maternity leave

July 23, 2017 Catherine Goetze

Women in the workplace are often discriminated after maternity leave, despite high productivity – how can professionals and managers mitigate the bad attitudes towards colleagues

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