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Coaching for Leaders

76: How to Handle People Who Smell, with Jacquelyn Thorp

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Management, Careers, Business

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2013

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Jacquelyn Thorp: Train Me Today

Sometimes things show up in the workspace that we don’t want and didn’t anticipate. In this episode, my guest Jacquelyn Thorp and I discuss what to do when someone on your team smells and is causing issues for colleagues. Jacquelyn brings her experience from handling this situation many times to help us address this proactively.

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0:00.0

It's exciting to manage when you get to spend time working on new innovations, exciting strategies, motivating the team to greatness. Ah, that's the good stuff.

0:11.0

What about when people smell? That's right, smell. What do you do then? This is

0:17.7

coaching for leaders, episode 76. Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.

0:27.0

Greetings from Orange County, California.

0:32.8

This is coaching for leaders, and I'm your host Dave Stahoviac.

0:37.8

This is a weekly show to help smart people improve their communication and leadership skills.

0:44.8

And yes, going under the umbrella of things you never thought you'd hear a topic on on this show,

0:50.3

this is an episode to help you figure out what to do when people smell and you need to address it.

0:57.0

And by the way, there's a lot of other tough stuff that when we're leading others that sometimes we need to address.

1:04.2

And this actually came in as a listener question from a member of our community.

1:09.5

And when I first saw this question, I was thinking,

1:12.0

gosh, you know, I have a few ideas I'm not sure we're going to do a show on this and then as I started thinking about this more and more I realized wow I actually know a bunch of people who are in leadership and management

1:24.8

roles over the years who have had to address something like this or have addressed

1:30.5

something very similar to this.

1:32.5

And so I thought it would be important for us

1:35.1

to address it head on and also to get some feedback

1:38.8

from someone who knows a lot more about this

1:40.9

than I do.

1:41.8

And I'm so glad to be joined this week by my guest

1:45.8

Jacqueline Thorpe who I had the chance to sit down with earlier this week and

1:50.3

interview Jacqueline's had a long career in human resources and now she is and

1:54.0

now she is in the business of training

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