Personal Life Issues in the Workplace
Suggested Strategy: Approach this subject with sensitivity and ask for
permission. Use the five words we, share, opportunity, perception,
observation to open the conversation. Your focus should be on
protecting the employee from being exposed with personal issues
coming through to the workplace.
Suggested Questions:
→ Present & Respond: Hypothetically, If I were to present to you that
your personal life may be getting in the way of your success, how do you
think you would respond in a way that would positively impact your
success going forward?
→ Risk Question: What risks do you think might present themselves
when personal life is brought into the workplace?
Suggested Activities:
→ Brainstorming: Make a list of things that are happening outside of
work that are bothering the employee that they might be willing to share
with you, with the agreement that those issues will not be shared outside
of your office by either of you.
→ Practice: Set up a recurring schedule together of a time once per week
that you can get together so that the employee has an opportunity to
verbalize some things that may be bothering them in a protected space.
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