Keeping the Peace

Your hands are sweating; your stomach is in knots. Once again you have a client who has become truly obnoxious. Somehow they are driving you crazy. If you say left, they say right. The hiring honeymoon is over and now you see that your client is – believe it or not – a difficult person. [...]

Danielle left the house with just five minutes to spare. It would have been better if she had left ten or fifteen minutes early because she wanted to stop and buy a cup of coffee. She decided that she could probably get in and out of the coffee house within seven minutes and that being [...]

A little compassion can go a long way.  Imagine for a moment that one of your co-workers comes into the office late and in a bad mood. You have been waiting for them because you need their input to finish writing a proposal for a customer. You walk into their office and they snap at [...]

Do you ever find yourself looking at some of your team members and wondering why they just don’t do their jobs? If they are your peers it might just be a point of curiosity (albeit an annoying one). But if these people work for you, this is more than just a point of curiosity. You [...]

In one of the first classes I taught, I had a student who was always scowling at me. It would have been really hard to miss that scowl. He sat in the front row and it was a small class in a small room.
He was friendly enough when he entered the class room and when [...]