Bad Bosses, Crazy Coworkers & Other Office Idiots
201 Smart Ways to Handle the Toughest People Issues
By: Vicky Oliver
Published: September 1, 2008
Format: Paperback: 512 pages
ISBN-10: 1402212534
ISBN-13: 978-1402212536
Publisher: Sourcebooks
"Contrary to popular perception, life at the office needn't be an inferno of despair, drudgery, and mayhem five days a week", writes speaker and career counselor, Vicky Oliver, in her engaging and solution packed book Bad Bosses, Crazy Coworkers & Other Office Idiots: 201 Smart Ways to Handle the Toughest People Issues. The author describes the most frequently encountered and suffered problem bosses, coworkers, and employees; and shares proven techniques to disarm and even improve their behavior.
Vicky Oliver recognizes that almost every workplace contains the people who she refers to as the Problem. These difficult and often destructive people not only make the workplace environment a difficult experience for other employees, but also lower overall office productivity through their actions. Vicky Oliver shares her techniques for identifying the core personality issue for each of the various problem people. With the underlying problem understood, the author provides her proven techniques for disarming and neutralizing even the worst and most deadly problem individuals in any office. Vicky Oliver demonstrates that troubled employees no longer need to suffer in silence, but can be empowered to improve the office for the benefit of all.
Vicky Oliver (photo left) understands that suffering from terrible bosses, incorrigible coworkers, and unworkable employees result in a loss of performance and productivity in the workplace. The tragedy is that one or two problem people have a serious impact on the work performance of other employees as well. Fortunately, Vicky Oliver demonstrates that the workplace doesn't have to be a chapter from Dante's Inferno, but instead are simply another challenge that also has proven solutions.
Vicky Oliver divides her Problem people into three overarching groups, with each segment having subsets of various challenges. At the same time, the author offers strategies for identifying and dealing effectively with each problem individual, regardless of their position in the hierarchy. The three sections include:
* Bosses From Hell
* Colleagues From Purgatory
* When The Problem Lies Within
For me, the power of the book is how Vicky Oliver combines a comprehensive description of the complete gamut of problem people in workplaces, with a series of proven strategies for overcoming the challenges posed by working with those individuals. The author combines good humor with critical insights into the myriad of toxic people, and how they destroy their workplaces. Vicky Oliver pairs each problem person with the solution to handling that individual and their toxicity effectively.
The book is laid out in convenient, and readily accessed sections on bad bosses, problematic coworkers, and if the problem lies within oneself. With the problem paired with the solution, the book becomes an indispensable resource for all employees, managers, and supervisors to work effectively with any disruptive boss, colleague, or employee. The book is about solutions, and delivers on that promise.
I highly recommend the insightful and office transformational book Bad Bosses, Crazy Coworkers & Other Office Idiots: 201 Smart Ways to Handle the Toughest People Issues by Vicky Oliver, to any leaders, managers, supervisors, employees, and job searchers who are seeking real world solutions for handling the most troubling people in any workplace environment. This book will change forever the culture in your office, through the empowering of people, to take back control of their own working lives from the trouble people, that haunt most offices.
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