Navigating Toxic vs. Team Player: Your Guide to Workplace Personalities
Update: 2025-07-30
Description
Tired of tiptoeing around tough personalities at work? Whether it's the micromanaging boss, the passive-aggressive peer, or the coworker who just rubs you the wrong way, this episode gives you the mindset and tools to navigate workplace personalities with emotional intelligence and influence.
- Learn how to decode personality types in the workplace and embrace differences instead of avoiding them—and how to use curiosity to challenge your own assumptions.
- Avoid being boxed in by similarity bias or typecast in ways that limit your potential.
- Manage up - leverage informal influence to have agency and power without needing a title.
- Align with leadership without losing your voice
- Use body language and mirroring strategies to build instant rapport
- Keep the peace and stay focused on your real goals
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