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Has digital transformation led to an upsurge in workplace disinformation?

Workplace Insight

When every team member fully understands this idea of information analysis, it will help mitigate fake news spreading around. Companies should revise or create policies that encompass both external and internal channels, collaborating closely with HR to integrate them into employee training initiatives.

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How to Positively Slay Your Office Dragons

Office Dynamics

It is a favorite topic in my Star Achievement Series® training program. Co-workers can be dragons when they: gossip. Avoid gossiping. However, in the final analysis, every adult does as he or she chooses. I have been speaking on how to slay your ‘Office Dragons’ for 25 years now. Office Dragons #2: Co-workers.

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Fighting Co-Worker Dragons (2 of 3 part series)

Office Dynamics

Here are the common responses I hear: Gossip. Avoid gossiping. In the final analysis, however, every adult does as he or she chooses. When I teach my Star Achievement Series® classes, I ask participants, “What are some of the things co-workers do that make them “appear” to be dragons?” Convey a bad mood at the office.

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Fighting Office Dragons

Office Dynamics

Co-workers can appear to be dragons when they: gossip. In the final analysis, however, every adult does as he or she chooses. Leaders can appear to be dragons when they: do not communicate on the employee’s level. give poor direction. show favoritism. do not follow through on what they say. do not resolve conflicts. lack confidence.

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What Kind of Leader Are You: A Fixer, Fighter or Friend?

Success

This leads to gossip and politics, often just below the surface of what looks like a happy and positive culture. Second, Fighters rarely get to the post-game analysis. There’s also a counterintuitive issue that happens often in Friend-led cultures. The Fixer’s challenge.

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Five Ways to Respond to Social Media Challenges and Criticism

Andrea Kalli

Articles were published after days, sometimes weeks, of study and analysis. Some criticisms just are not worth responding to, most notably ’snark’-style blog comments and angry gossip articles. Challenges were issues within registered guidelines and by established PR representatives. Gauge the value of a response.

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Are You A Valid Person?

Brilliantly Better

But after working a few years in the traditional media world – which, by the way, is not a very friendly place to be, always challenged, filled with gossip and back talking – I felt the need for a change. What’s funny about getting that job is that I never had any specific training for that. We are complete.

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