EP180 Real talk on communicating with difficult colleagues at school
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Do you have co-workers who are passive-aggressive, controlling, or even outright bullying others when you're supposed to be collaborating?
Are you appalled at some of the things that come out of some coworkers' mouths, but always feel caught off guard and aren't sure how to respond?
This is an off-the-cuff episode where I'm speaking to you directly from the heart, giving the same advice I'd give to a friend. Listen in to hear some approaches I've used when communicating with difficult colleagues.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 180 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm your host Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth |
| 0:11.0 | into the minds and hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead. |
| 0:15.0 | Today I'm going to share some real talk about communicating with difficult colleagues. |
| 0:20.0 | Visit truth for teachers.com to get the transcript or find our new Truth for |
| 0:24.5 | Teachers podcast community on Facebook. You can share your thoughts on the show |
| 0:28.2 | there and reflect with other listeners in our private group. This episode is sponsored by ViewSonic Education. They are the |
| 0:36.0 | creator of View Board. It's an interactive whiteboard for the classroom and My |
| 0:40.3 | View Board which is a digital whiteboarding app. |
| 0:43.5 | Together, these two tools help teachers create engaging lessons from anywhere and then present |
| 0:48.0 | them in the classroom. |
| 0:49.5 | Search the internet, open your favorite apps, play educational videos, all from your digital whiteboard. |
| 0:55.5 | It's finally a solution that teaches the way that you do. |
| 0:58.9 | To learn more, visit viewsonic.com. |
| 1:01.8 | slash education. View Sonic.com Education. |
| 1:04.0 | So this is going to be a more informal off-the-cuff episode that I normally do. |
| 1:10.0 | If you are new to this podcast, this is not what the episodes are normally like, I typically try to keep things super structured and really focused on practical information. |
| 1:20.0 | This episode will be a little different. |
| 1:23.0 | Sometimes I just want to speak to you directly from the heart. |
| 1:26.2 | No scripting, no planning, and advance what I want to say, no rehearsing. |
| 1:30.9 | Just like I'm talking to a friend. |
| 1:33.0 | So you'll probably hear more ums and us and things like that in this episode. |
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