From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York's work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations - featuring all-new advice!
There's a reason Alison Green has been called "the Dear Abby of the work world". Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don't know what to say. Thankfully, Green does - and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You'll learn what to say when:
- Coworkers push their work on you - then take credit for it
- You accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit "reply all"
- You're being micromanaged - or not being managed at all
- You catch a colleague in a lie
- Your boss seems unhappy with your work
- Your cubemate's loud speakerphone is making you homicidal
- You got drunk at the holiday party
Praise for Ask a Manager:
"Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way." (Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together)