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The Drama-Free Office: A Guide to Healthy Collaboration with Your Team, Coworkers, and Boss
In The Drama-Free Office, authors Jim Warner and Kaley Klemp interweave humorous and relatable case studies with the three key skills you'll need for managing office saboteurs--be they subordinates, coworkers, or the boss. You will see your coworkers (and yourself) in this entertaining and practical blueprint for addressing the dramatic behaviors that cripple so many teams...more
Paperback, 205 pages
Published
July 1st 2011
by Greenleaf Book Group
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The strength of this book is that you're halfway through it before it even begins to touch on dealing with the drama of others. Instead, the book first deals with types of drama and focuses on your own drama-causing behaviors. It asks you to take a careful look at how you are contributing to the drama in your office environment.
The other strength of the book is in its "What to look for in mentors" figure (p.96) which is too long to type out here, but which was excellent and worth slogging throug...more
The other strength of the book is in its "What to look for in mentors" figure (p.96) which is too long to type out here, but which was excellent and worth slogging throug...more
Basically: Everything I've always wanted in a work-help book.
Premise: There are 4 different drama types, including Complainer, Cynic, Controller and Caregiver.
Conclusion: Applying this book to real-world situations, I realize that most people, including myself, are probably all of these drama types at one point or another.
Tips & Quotes
Ways to Get Yourself Out of Drama:
1. Take a time-out. (You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it. You must learn to see the worl...more
Premise: There are 4 different drama types, including Complainer, Cynic, Controller and Caregiver.
Conclusion: Applying this book to real-world situations, I realize that most people, including myself, are probably all of these drama types at one point or another.
Tips & Quotes
Ways to Get Yourself Out of Drama:
1. Take a time-out. (You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it. You must learn to see the worl...more
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I only found this moderately helpful. Some of the dichotomies set up here feel unrealistic, but maybe I haven't worked with people as role-bound as they are in the book. As such, this book only had so much benefit to me.
Helpful for those managing employees who seem to be difficult. Offers insights in how to deal with the various types of personalities.
Love. This. Book.
I think, to some extent, I have characteristics of every personality type in this book. Oops.
This would have been an OK read if I wasn't easily distracted by all the good crime novels just waiting to be read. Unfortunately, I was distracted by fictitious crime and lost interest in learning how to play well with others at work.
This would have been an OK read if I wasn't easily distracted by all the good crime novels just waiting to be read. Unfortunately, I was distracted by fictitious crime and lost interest in learning how to play well with others at work.
This is a really well-written, practical guide to dealing with drama at work. Not only does it identify drama behaviors, it also identifies healthy, authentic behaviors. I also liked that it gives advice on dealing with self-drama and drama-prone peers, subordinates and bosses. This was a really helpful read.
Useful, common-sense approach to dealing with the people who suck the oxygen out of meetings.
A bit too much theory. Would have preferred more story development.
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