Talking to Your Kids About Sex/Sensitive Topics

• Find common interests and discuss them.
• Encourage others to talk about what interests them.
• Be gentle or help someone out, even if it is on a small thing.
• Say something nice about another person or something associated with another person without being phony.
• Acknowledge the awkwardness. This is especially effective if you can do it in a humorous way.

1. Others taking credit for your work: speak up when presenting your joint ideas, else the boss will remember that the other was the one who did all the talking.
2. Overanalyzing your tone or watering down criticism: understand the difference between sounding arrogant and assertive.
3. Noisy coworkers: work somewhere else in the office or record the noises that you make during a workday—maybe the noises aren’t as bad as you think.
4. Beign interrupted during meetings: to speak with authority and presence you need to feel worth listening to, and you can develop it for yourself.
5. Making friends in the office: invite a coworker to lunch or ask to join a group of them. People are often happy to have new additions.
6. Firing a hard worker that isn’t good enough: set clear benchmarks, and let them know what will happen if they don’t meet them.
7. You want to leave early but others work late: talk to your boss if there is no reason for the extra time.
8. Your employees don’t respect you: project confidence in your new role, then be specific and clear about your expectations.
9. Interviewing while pregnant: it’s an opportunity to show your resourcefulness and preparation. Be ready with a plan for minimizing the impact of your absence.
10. You don't want to attend to happy hour: try coming up with some time during work to bond–like lunch or family-friendly weekend events.

“We want to be liked, or at least accepted by other people, In order to not break these norms, we sometimes act like we’re treading on eggshells.”