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    The document provides tips for avoiding office politics and gossip at work. It recommends (1) not sharing secrets that aren't yours, (2) staying away from the water cooler where gossip tends to happen, and (3) not blind siding coworkers by withholding important information or making them look bad to make yourself look better. Maintaining confidentiality and treating coworkers with respect are emphasized as ways to avoid harmful office politics.

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    The document provides tips for avoiding office politics and gossip at work. It recommends (1) not sharing secrets that aren't yours, (2) staying away from the water cooler where gossip tends to happen, and (3) not blind siding coworkers by withholding important information or making them look bad to make yourself look better. Maintaining confidentiality and treating coworkers with respect are emphasized as ways to avoid harmful office politics.

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    How To Avoid: Office Politics

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    Lii Liien
    The document provides tips for avoiding office politics and gossip at work. It recommends (1) not sharing secrets that aren't yours, (2) staying away from the water cooler where gossip tends to happen, and (3) not blind siding coworkers by withholding important information or making them look bad to make yourself look better. Maintaining confidentiality and treating coworkers with respect are emphasized as ways to avoid harmful office politics.

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    How to

    Office
    Avoid

    PoliticsGM5520 Training and Development


    Management
    Lilian Felicia Lim
    (GM03901)
    The Why
    Craziness Tolerance

    Takes up Time

    Takes up Space

    GM5520 Training and Development


    Management
    5 Don’t buy into it.

    GM5520 Training and Development


    Management
    The How
    1. An indifferent expression.
    2. “Oh, okay”/“Oh..”/“….”/“Really.”
    + “Well, I’ve got to get back to
    work.”
    3. Get back to your work.

    GM5520 Training and Development


    Management
    4 You screw up? Fess up.

    GM5520 Training and Development


    Management
    Why?
    • What makes
    gossiping
    fun?
    • Unknown
    mess-ups
    make
    sensation
    • When you try
    GM5520 Training and Development
    Management
    3
    Don’t blindside your coworkers.

    GM5520 Training and Development


    Management
    Why do people blindside?
    • Make other coworker look
    bad
    • To make them look better.
    Why not?
    • This rarely, if ever, works.
    • Angry coworker
    • If you know so much, you
    can do the coworker's
    work on top of yours,

    GM5520 Training and Development


    Management
    2
    Keep away from the water cooler.

    GM5520 Training and Development


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    What about the water
    cooler?
    • How to distinguish the gossip
    group/the secret club.
    • If you say anything to anyone, then
    you’re willing to tell everyone. It
    But I will
    want to beanyway.
    get around in the water
    cooler
    • If your club…
    boss find your water-
    drinking ability impressive.
    • If you would like to be burned by it.
    GM5520 Training and Development
    Management
    1
    If it isn’t your secret, you can’t tell it.

    GM5520 Training and Development


    Management
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    Management
    Why?
    • Ethics – honor that
    confidence
    • Immoral or illegal.
    What to do?
    • Encourage the person to do the
    right thing.
    • It is this person's choice of what
    they are going to do.
    GM5520 Training and Development
    Management
    Peace of Mind

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