(From the New York Times) "I care about my colleagues, but there are things I don’t need to
know. I’ve also found that if people know that you don’t gossip and
that you don’t tolerate it, they won’t gossip around you. It might be
human nature to think an unkind thought about a co-worker, but it’s a
choice whether or not to actually say it.
"There’s a mix of
personalities in any company, and rarely does everyone in a workplace
like one another. But I believe that half the battle is in how people
communicate.
"When employees are hired here, they’re given a
communications assessment, a commercial program that the company uses
to pinpoint a person’s dominant communications style. The styles are
linked to colors that identify how each employee likes to communicate."
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Tags: workplace, behavior, teams
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