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Acting Unilaterally: Bringing Balance to Difficult Conversations
Weeks, HollyBook Chapter HBS-6412BC-EMost people think that trust and mutual respect are the two necessary ingredients for good results in difficult conversations. Unfortunately, in hard or even toxic talks, one side often does not bring trust or respect to the conversation. If we put our attention on working toward balance, and bringing self-respect and respect for our counterpart to the conversation, we can unilaterally alter the track of the conversation and increase neutrality. ...Starting at €8.20
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Out of Combat: Changing the Game--Finding Balance in Difficult Conversations
Weeks, HollyBook Chapter HBS-6414BC-EBecause a combat conversation is a struggle between winning and losing, it has to be unbalanced. We must change the game and move away from the combat model of difficult conversation to one with better odds of working well and inflicting less damage. We should prepare for conversations by working out our preferred outcome, preferred working relationship, and interferences. This will keep us realistic and strategically focused on the situation we ...Starting at €8.20
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Out of Emotion's Grip: Increasing Skill--Four Tactics You Can Use to Manage Disruptive Emotions During Difficult Conversations
Weeks, HollyBook Chapter HBS-6416BC-EWhen handling toxic conversations, we need to add real skill to prevent our emotions from interfering. In this chapter, the author outlines four tactics that can help: finding the middle ground between emotional extremes, immunizing ourselves against thwarting ploys, changing tack, and recovering from mistakes. She uses anecdotes to illustrate how events might play out in real life. This chapter is excerpted from "Failure to Communicate: How Con...Starting at €8.20
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Shared Views and Common Choices: Who Is Generation Y, and What Does that Mean for Your Career
Erickson, TamaraBook Chapter HBS-7813BC-EIt is not easy to pin down Generation Y. This is due to a number of factors - how global Y's are, their vastly different socioeconomic starting points, and intense desire for individuality. In this chapter, the author reviews the characteristics that define this generation - how Y's see themselves, what they value, and what they want from work -identifying traits that influence the career path and choices of Generation Y. This chapter is excerpt...Starting at €8.20
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Identify Your Preferences: Generation Y--Shaping Your Personal Career Strategy
Erickson, TamaraBook Chapter HBS-7815BC-EThere is a clear link between understanding what you love and identifying tangible elements of the work environment that would be best for you. What is the deciding factor in your job search? In this chapter, the author describes six archetypes of work-related passions and preferred relationships. She also includes an exercise to help you determine which of the six rates highest for you. This chapter is excerpted from "Plugged In: The Generation...Starting at €8.20
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Reinvent Your Career and Your Life: Doing What You Want--Career Strategies for Boomers
Erickson, TamaraBook Chapter HBS-5093BC-ELeadership and People ManagementToday, far too many Boomers find themselves begrudgingly sticking with their current employers. But in an age of unprecedented opportunities for this generation of workers, this needn't ever happen. This chapter discusses strategies for tapping into and realizing what you want out of life and career, whether you hope to continue traditional work, branch out into nonprofit or volunteer work, or focus on family. This chapter is excerpted from "Ret...Starting at €8.20
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Challenge Your Assumptions--and Your Employer's: How Boomers Can Benefit from the Changing Workplace
Erickson, TamaraBook Chapter HBS-5098BC-ELeadership and People ManagementThis chapter takes a close look at the expanding life choices of the Boomer generation and the implications these choices will have on how workers of this generation will spend the rest of their lives. This chapter is excerpted from "Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation."Starting at €8.20
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Why Do You Think What You Think: Boomers' Views on Work and the World
Erickson, TamaraBook Chapter HBS-5099BC-ELeadership and People ManagementThis chapter profiles Boomers and their unique worldview and relationship to work, comparing their attitudes and expectations to those of other generations. This chapter is excerpted from "Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation."Starting at €8.20
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Shaping Generation X: Your Teen Years--And What They Mean for Your Work Life
Erickson, TamaraBook Chapter HBS-5671BC-ERemember Tylenol tampering, the rise of MTV, the start of the AIDs epidemic, and mothers re-entering the workforce in droves? They are all experiences shared by you and your fellow members of Generation X, and whether you like it or not, these experiences shaped the way you fit into the workplace. Many of our most powerful and lasting beliefs are formed when we are teenagers, when we first shift our focus from tangible objects and begin to wrestl...Starting at €8.20
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What Are They Thinking: The Other Four Generations--What Generation X'ers Should Know About their Colleagues
Erickson, TamaraBook Chapter HBS-5673BC-EUnderstanding why people from other generations behave the way they do will give you, as a member of Generation X, an advantage as you work with them - whether they be your bosses, colleagues, clients, partners, or customers. This chapter is about "them" - the other generations who share your workplace and your lives: the Traditionalists, Boomers, Generation Y, and the up-and-coming Re-Generation. In the workplace, confusion and frustration often...Starting at €8.20