Discussion Question
When someone who works for you REALLY needs an attitude adjustment, what method do you use?
posted by Ted @ 19:26
"It's just laser beams and power chords--there's no plot at all."
posted by Ted @ 19:26
4 Comments:
At 14/12/08 23:06 ,
SSBD said...
I use the 'shut your mouth and try not to cause too much conflict' method because I am still the lowest of the low on ye olde toteme polee.
At 16/12/08 14:36 ,
KAISER ANDY I said...
Exactly. As Churchill said, "Where you stand depends on where you sit."
If you are equals and this person has no-one's ear to cause you problems later, this changes things.
If you have a minute, tell them straight up- "we need to talk. you can decide if it's in private or out here in front of god and everybody."
You then proceed to mark specific examples of mal-attitudeness. You follow up with alternative methods that would have been effective without the necessity of being a cock-ass. I have found that using larger words and staying above them verbally is handy.
But then again, this advice is coming from someone who has never found an argument he didn't like.
so there's your Caveat emtor, or tempis fugit, or et tu Brute, or whatever.
At 19/12/08 03:21 ,
Richard Noggin said...
Funny thing. I just typed up a Word document that I sent to a couple of our mutual friends, the Yankee and the Kaiser, dealing with this very issue. I'll forward the document to you if you wish.
The Reader's Digest version is a simple conversation: "Either get with the program or get on your horse & get the Hell out of town." No room for discussion or interpretation.
At 23/12/08 14:48 ,
KAISER ANDY I said...
I believe that the good doktor is looking at a co-worker and not the product of a subordinate.
Although one can tell a co-worker the same thing, it wouldn't have the same effect.
You could always put a layer of icy hot on this person's deoderant stick. Cayanne pepper in the underwear also works.
Maybe the silent treatment.
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