5 steps to remove yourself from drama at work | Anastasia Penright

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🗓️ 8 June 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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No matter your industry, you’ve experienced drama at work. In this funny and all-too-relatable talk, community leader Anastasia Penright outlines five steps you can follow to better coexist with your coworkers and focus on what’s really important.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Elise Hugh, and you're listening to TED Talks Daily. Today's talk from business consultant
0:08.6	Anastasia Penwright offers an antidote to workplace drama. If you've ever gotten a passive
0:14.1	aggressive nastygram from a colleague, or you just need to vent about an assignment going
0:19.3	epically wrong.
0:22.2	Give this a listen.
0:27.1	Not only will you get practical steps to respond better to the drama that happens at work?
0:31.2	Stick around for a good joke you can use about yellow starburst, the candy.
0:36.0	Okay, here it is Anastasia Penright at Ted at Wells Fargo in 2020. All right, I have a close, tight-knit circle of
0:41.5	friends. We're all in different cities, and we're all in different areas, from local news to city
0:48.7	government to law, financial services. And despite those different areas, we seem to share similar stories
0:58.1	of workplace drama. Now, I define workplace drama as an annoyance that adds additional
1:04.5	stress to the job. So again, it's when people get on your nerves, not the job itself.
1:10.4	So as we're going through these stories,
1:12.0	I'm realizing there has to be a better way for us to coexist with our coworkers
1:16.9	without this much drama.
1:20.1	So I created a few steps that have been working for me,
1:23.5	and I'm happy to share them with you guys today.
1:26.5	Step one.
1:28.3	Rewind and reflect.
1:30.3	Also known as, what did I do?
1:33.7	I want you guys to all replay your most recent workplace drama situation in your head like a movie.
1:40.2	Ignore all the emotion and just focus on you.
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