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Workplace Gossip? Keep It to Yourself

November 17, 2009 04:29 by jllorens

(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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