Accelerate Your Performance
Accelerate Your Performance is a weekly podcast hosted by Dr. Janet Pilcher, Managing Director of Studer Education and author of Hardwiring Excellence in Education. Every week, Janet highlights tactical and actionable strategies that leaders in educational organizations can hardwire to meet successful student, service, and people outcomes. Listen now, and you’ll see why it’s ranked by ListenNotes in the top 5% of podcasts worldwide.
As she introduces a variety of pivotal leadership practices from the Nine Principles ® Framework, Janet underscores the importance of seamlessly integrating each practice to deliver positive and impactful results. For each leadership practice she introduces, Janet provides a solid foundation and then collaborates with coaching experts to dig deeper and demonstrate its practical application. Janet also interviews leaders and partners who excel at the tactics to hear about their implementation journeys, hurdles they’ve faced, and their notable achievements. To bring it all together, she offers a broader perspective on leadership, interviewing guests about a diverse array of topics on their paths to achieving organizational excellence.
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Accelerate Your Performance
Saying 'No' to Manipulators
What can we do when an individual hoards conversation time, constantly interrupts, provides unsolicited advice and puts others down? These behaviors can be interpreted as manipulative and can damage individuals on our teams and organizations. To maintain working relationships, and be authentic to ourselves and those we lead, we have to firmly and diplomatically say no to manipulators. Today Janet shares examples of how to take control when working with a manipulator.
This episode answers questions such as:
- How can we deal with manipulators in the workplace?
- What "I" and "it" statements can help stop manipulators?
- How do we firmly say 'no' to manipulators?
Recommended Resources: How to Spot and Stop Manipulators, Deal with Problems, Tips for Documenting Poor Performance and Non-Compliance, & Eliminate We/They
Recommended Podcasts: Dealing with Manipulators, What Makes an Employee a Productive One?, That's the Way it is, Handling Executive Leader Sabotage & Stop the Subconscious Behavior Infecting Your Organization