{"id":138619,"date":"2021-04-24T22:54:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T02:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/138619"},"modified":"2021-04-24T22:54:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T02:54:23","slug":"ask-a-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/138619","title":{"rendered":"Ask a Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York\u2019s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations\u2014featuring all-new advice! There\u2019s a reason Alison Green has been called \u201cthe Dear Abby of the work world.\u201d Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don\u2019t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does\u2014and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You\u2019ll learn what to say when \u2022 coworkers push their work on you\u2014then take credit for it \u2022 you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit \u201creply all\u201d \u2022 you\u2019re being micromanaged\u2014or not being managed at all \u2022 you catch a colleague in a lie \u2022 your boss seems unhappy with your work \u2022 your cubemate\u2019s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal \u2022 you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager \u201cA must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green\u2019s] 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.\u201d\u2014Booklist (starred review) \u201cThe author\u2019s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers\u2019 lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.\u201d\u2014Library Journal (starred review) \u201cI am a huge fan of Alison Green\u2019s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces\u2014and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.\u201d\u2014Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide \u201cAsk a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.\u201d\u2014Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together<p>\r\n\t       \r\n\t       GBS_insertEmbeddedViewer(“08UyDwAAQBAJ”, 500,400);\r\n\t       <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York\u2019s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations\u2014featuring all-new advice! There\u2019s a reason Alison Green has been called \u201cthe Dear Abby of the work world.\u201d Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/138619\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ask a Manager<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[696,16124,37641,43325,19,37603,37623,37732,37653,43323,37597,16121,37578,37730,43317,43324,37655,43326,40160,37606,37609,36857,37602,39792,37601,37604,37600,16120,37654,43327,43316,37598,37659,43312,37599,37638,34012,43330,43328,43329,23,41908,35568,38147,43243,33777,43321,43331,43314,43322,43315,37010,43319,43313,43318,43320],"class_list":["post-138619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-causes-and-prevention","tag-anxiety","tag-anxiety-and-depression","tag-anxiety-and-phobia-workbook","tag-anxiety-and-stress-relief-supplements","tag-anxiety-attack","tag-anxiety-attack-symptoms","tag-anxiety-attacks-symptoms","tag-anxiety-books","tag-anxiety-books-free","tag-anxiety-bracelet-for-women","tag-anxiety-definition","tag-anxiety-disorder","tag-anxiety-disorder-symptoms","tag-anxiety-dog-bed","tag-anxiety-during-coronavirus","tag-anxiety-essential-oils","tag-anxiety-games","tag-anxiety-in-relationship","tag-anxiety-journal","tag-anxiety-lyrics","tag-anxiety-meaning","tag-anxiety-medication","tag-anxiety-medications","tag-anxiety-meditation","tag-anxiety-meds","tag-anxiety-quiz","tag-anxiety-quotes","tag-anxiety-relief","tag-anxiety-relief-games","tag-anxiety-relief-items","tag-anxiety-song","tag-anxiety-symptoms","tag-anxiety-symptoms-in-women","tag-anxiety-synonym","tag-anxiety-test","tag-anxiety-workbook","tag-panic","tag-panic-at-the-disco-merchandise","tag-panic-at-the-disco-poster","tag-panic-at-the-disco-shirt","tag-panic-attack","tag-panic-attack-relief","tag-panic-attack-symptoms","tag-panic-attack-treatment","tag-panic-attack-vs-anxiety-attack","tag-panic-attacks","tag-panic-attacks-and-anxiety","tag-panic-attacks-and-anxiety-relief","tag-panic-attacks-symptoms","tag-panic-button","tag-panic-buying","tag-panic-disorder","tag-panic-disorder-symptoms","tag-panic-room","tag-panic-stream","tag-the-panic-room-got-cha-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}