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. --Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide 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.
It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces--and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.
This book is even better. -- Library Journal (starred review) I am a huge fan of Alison Green\'s Ask a Manager column.
Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their Work experience. -- Booklist (starred review) The author\'s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers\' lives.
Alison Green\'s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work. . .
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 A must-read for anyone who works .
Thankfully, Green does--and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during Your career.
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.
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
