Supervision Skills Matter — Part One

What do you do when office politics become personal? How do you make the choice to stay or leave? Read more about how I had to navigate interpersonal politics with a supervisor and my personal decisions on how to snap back.

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I asked my readers to help me pick a topic to explore in a blog post and was not surprised by the choice to explore office politics. To be completely honest, this topic has scared me to explore because I approached my blogs from a personal perspective on my jobs and what has impacted the development of my values. I waited to write about this topic because I knew it would stress me out and make me worry about the politics of relationships in offices I haven’t worked in for years, decades even!

However, I have committed myself to exploring professional development topics from a place of vulnerability, really looking at the choices that reinforced my personal values or helped me re-learn a new way to express my values. These behaviors have been challenging to share, but all of the behaviors have been my own.

I have also decided to offer this topic as a series and will explore creating and challenging an interpersonal relationship and its effect on the office culture as the final entry. So here we go:

“Maybe you should consider a new career…”