October 22, 2009Poison Phrase: we will never have a good working relationship.

Filed under: Poison Phrase of the Week by merylrunion |

I was recently brought in to speak by a woman who had been told by her boss that:

- You and I will never have a good working relationship

After hearing my assistant’s seminar, she decided to prove him wrong. She succeeded.

She was new to her job when her manager gave her the thumbs down. Now they get along great because she took control of her job without being aggressive.

I love hearing stories like that! Poison Phrases can be challenges to fire back more poison – or they can be challenges to move the interaction to a higher level as my friend did.

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