A difficult boss can help you develop valuable skills | How to adapt to a new company culture | Small steps to building long-term business relationships
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A difficult boss can help you develop valuable skills If you're having a hard time with your manager, you should stick to the job, be strategic about finding new opportunities and try to learn from your boss' bad behavior, writes CEO Gary Burnison. "Your ability to manage a difficult boss can help you expand your emotional intelligence, particularly in managing conflict and tense situations," he writes. Forbes (3/29)How to adapt to a new company culture Take note of how co-workers communicate with each other when you're fitting into a new work environment, write Allan Church and Jay Conger. Pay attention to how decisions are made, if meetings are well-planned or ad hoc, and if group collaboration is favored. Harvard Business Review online (tiered subscription model) (3/29)
Making the Connection
Small steps to building long-term business relationships Build a more meaningful connection with your business associates by taking them out for a casual coffee catch-up regularly, writes client service director Miranda Anderson. Be communicative and honest when you notice a potential problem, she writes. Fast Company online (3/26)
Think strategically about your next career move Put some thought into what you want in your next job and the type of company you would like to work for, so you know exactly what you are targeting and how to approach the search, writes Eileen Hoenigman Meyer. Research different companies to understand more about them and to get an idea of whether they would be a good cultural fit for you. Glassdoor (3/28)Get in the right headspace before tackling a new opportunity Work through any negative feelings you may have about leaving your previous job and reflect on what you've learned, says psychologist Cicely Horsham-Brathwaite. Think about what you would like to see in your next career leap and visualize how your next job interview will go. CNBC (3/28)
The Water Cooler
Waiter says former employer wrongly fired him for rude behavior Waiter Guillaume Rey is suing former employer Milestones Grill and Bar, saying that the rude behavior the Canadian establishment cited when firing him was just the "direct, honest and professional" manner he learned while in France. The French waiter will have to show specifically what part of his background "would result in behavior that people misinterpret as a violation of workplace standards of acceptable conduct," wrote a tribunal judge. Quartz (3/27)
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
