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:
Î 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? Î Risk Question: What risks do you think might present themselves when personal life is brought into the workplace?
Suggested Activities:
Î 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. Î 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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