Emotions
How to Handle a Toxic Manager
Toxic managers can be challenging and also detrimental to your calmness and well-being. I know this from first hand experience. I was a senior executive successfully delivering a business change programme but I had the meanest manager I had ever experienced. He was a short New Yorker who loved to shout and belittle people. He did not respect that I lived in a different time zone from him and would call me late into my evening. Normally a confident person, my self-esteem and confidence hit rock bottom. It was a very unhappy period in my life.
In our busy 21st century lives, there is a trend towards families eating their meals from trays watching TV rather than sitting to a table and facing each other. Likewise teenagers, if allowed, will take their food and eat in their bedrooms.
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Personal development is about improving your skills and strengthening your relationships at home and at work.
Challenges arrive in your life to provide you with opportunities to learn and grow. Through them you can learn important life lessons such as improving your communication, overcoming jealous love or learning to receive as well as to give. However when faced with a new challenge you may feel daunted. Know the feeling?
A poppy is a beautiful red flower with medicinal capabilities and is full of potential. Yet it is also a symbol for war and gives a potential for drug abuse. Likewise each baby born is full of life’s potential but can also choose to lead a more negative life.