Stop Making Excuses At Work — Do This Instead

Tell me if this sounds familiar. Your colleague makes a trivial mistake. Maybe it is a financial typo in a presentation or they did not speak up when they had questions and finished work that was not quite right. All you want is for them to own up to it and move on. Instead, you get a long-winded explanation of why the mistake happened.  

It is a mark of strength — not weakness — to admit culpability swiftly and succinctly and explain how it can be rectified.

Now, I understand why people defa...