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	Coping with challenging work environments

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5-20-2007 10:47 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0f535aa5-3462-4349-ad91-9148b3cd7467/AB661761-1DB6-4A35-A242-B72AD494EB63/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://tamarapaton.blogspot.com/2007/04/more-from-alo-there-was-time-when-i.html" href="http://tamarapaton.blogspot.com/2007/04/more-from-alo-there-was-time-when-i.html" style="font-size: 11px;">tamarapaton.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tamarapaton.blogspot.com/2007/04/more-from-alo-there-was-time-when-i.html">The challenges inherent to work environments</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tamarapaton.blogspot.com/2007/04/more-from-alo-there-was-time-when-i.html">The first approach is obvious - just try to stay positive, particularly if you're in a formal leadership role and especially if you're not.  Good attitudes tend to be infectious and can often be self-fulfilling.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tamarapaton.blogspot.com/2007/04/more-from-alo-there-was-time-when-i.html">The second approach</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tamarapaton.blogspot.com/2007/04/more-from-alo-there-was-time-when-i.html">is not to blame yourself and take it upon yourself to improve.  Share the pain!  Make it someone else's problem too, and solve it together.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tamarapaton.blogspot.com/2007/04/more-from-alo-there-was-time-when-i.html">The third is to vent to independent friends.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tamarapaton.blogspot.com/2007/04/more-from-alo-there-was-time-when-i.html">They can also helpfully recognize patterns in repeated vents that you may have deluded yourself into believing were discreet occurrences.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tamarapaton.blogspot.com/2007/04/more-from-alo-there-was-time-when-i.html">As a side comment, friends who you work with can also be therapeutic venting receptacles, but what you say may come back to haunt you, or worse, you may pull said friend down with you!</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tamarapaton.blogspot.com/2007/04/more-from-alo-there-was-time-when-i.html"><DIV>The fourth is to know when to pull the plug.  Don't prolong unnecessary agony for too long, please.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AB661761-1DB6-4A35-A242-B72AD494EB63/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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