How to Assert Yourself Without Being Assertive, and Other Lessons I Was Told to Learn: What the Experts Say

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In a previous post, How to Assert Yourself Without Being Assertive, and Other Lessons I Was Told to Learn, I began to document some of the pivotal experiences that happened to me professionally. Each of the experiences impacted me profoundly and, years later, I find myself reflecting on how and why they did so. In retrospect, I believe the supervisors who were part of these experiences were trying to change my impact on the team through what I now believe was negative behavior modification. And for my own part, I was incredibly receptive to this type of supervision.

Before writing about these incidents in one place, I never made the connection about their cumulative impact. I also never thought of their leadership as poor, as I was craving their positive feedback. I plan to explore these experiences in a series of blogs. In this blog post, I’ll share the impact of bad supervisors in the workplace.

One Thing To Note

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In a previous post, I wrote about receiving difficult and challenging feedback about my impact on others on staff teams. I…