People skills expert Duncan Lewin asks us to examine how we respond to criticism in the workplace
Duncan Lewin: How to get more comfortable with criticism
Duncan Lewin
Duncan has over 15 years’ corporate and private sector experience as a trainer and facilitator. He has trained and worked alongside organisations including BT, Accenture, Fullers, Canary Wharf and the UK government and has seen how communication continues to challenge many large organisations in the 21st century.
He draws from his own personal experiences in managing feedback and phobia and is a self-confessed former ‘feedback-phobic’. He speaks directly with HR practitioners about some of the common misconceptions and issues that professionals and managers face when it comes to dealing with feedback and conflict in the workplace.
Duncan Lewin: How to be more assertive at work
Do you always make yourself heard at work? Are you always able to express yourself clearly and openly? If not, Duncan Lewin has some tips.
Duncan Lewin: Your boss pressures you – is it true?
Do you ever have these thoughts about your boss? And how do you react when you believe these thoughts? Stressed, anxious, irritable, unhappy? Do you gossip about them to others? Spend your lunchtimes job hunting? Dread Mondays?