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With your host, Pete McKitis.

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 143 with Dr. Janie Hardin Fritz.

Janie had some really great tips and perspectives when it comes to some of the difficult folks or behaviors you encounter at work,

so you're going to walk away learning one, how negative behavior takes its toll on the workplace,

two practical ways to build better colleague relationships and three tactics for dealing with

bully bosses so if you'd like to check out the show notes or the links to items that we reference or the transcript

that's over there at awesome at your job.com

slash Epp one four three.

While you're there I encourage you to check out some of our great resources

from the 10 days to winning at work

email course the collection of my favorite tactics to slash through waste and time wasters that pop up in your day, as well as the gold nunket email list, which summarizes the wisdom of Janie and the 142 guests that have come before her each in a short

email that appears in the morning when there is a new episode released. So if you

don't have time to take notes or you're running or driving and unable to get

pen to paper, well we take care of that for you. Now here's Janie's story.

Dr. Janie Fritz is a professor of communication and rhetorical studies at Duquesne University.

She studies communication in the workplace exploring how professional civility and incivility

affect productivity and relationships at work.

She's the author of Professional Civility,

Communicative Virtue at Work, Peter Lyon,

2, 13, and co-author or co-editor of several others.

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