EP141 Twelve ways to deal with colleagues who constantly complain
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Truth for Teachers podcast, we're talking strategies for dealing with complainers at work so negative colleagues don't impact your enthusiasm for the job.
Whether it's in the teacher's lounge, staff meetings, or just passing one another in the hallway, even a short conversation with a negative teacher can be totally draining. Everyone complains occasionally and no one is going be positive all the time ... this episode targets constant complaining or venting.
Ultimately what we're talking about here is dealing with people who are nonstop, chronic complainers, or people who rarely, if ever, are looking for solutions, and they will likely shoot down any ideas you offer because they're just wanting to complain.
I'm going to share 12 ways you can head off chronically complaining coworkers at the pass!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 141 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. I'm your host |
| 0:06.9 | Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the |
| 0:12.0 | minds and hearts of educators and get you energized and |
| 0:14.0 | get you energized for the week ahead. |
| 0:16.0 | Today I'm going to share 12 strategies that you can use to handle colleagues who constantly complain. |
| 0:22.0 | Visit Truth for Teachers.com to ask a question or to share your thoughts in the comments. |
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| 0:57.0 | Whether it's in the teachers lounge or staff meetings |
| 0:59.6 | or just passing each other in the hallway, |
| 1:02.0 | even a short conversation with a negative teacher |
| 1:04.8 | can be totally draining. |
| 1:07.4 | And let me start off by explaining what I mean |
| 1:09.5 | by negative complaining coworker, |
| 1:11.6 | because obviously all of us |
| 1:13.4 | complaining occasionally. No one's going to be positive all the time and |
| 1:16.7 | that's not even the goal. It's also not a negative thing to talk about problems or |
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