Reclaim your confidence at work so you can hire smarter, read the room and lead difficult moments without second-guessing yourself. What To Do If...? helps you handle real workplace situations with clarity and confidence.
Written by workplace behavior specialist Anne-Maartje Oud, this field-tested guide distils the 35 questions she's heard most over two decades training managers, HR professionals and teams. Organized into five focused parts on personal development, communication, collaboration, leadership and difficult conversations, it blends research, real examples and simple tools you can use right away.
Learn how to spot toxic hiring red flags before they damage your culture, decode body language and nonverbal cues, and respond constructively when emotions run high or someone cries at work. Use practical scripts, checklists and decision points to prepare for interviews, lead confident one-to-ones and navigate conflict with calm authority. Build emotional intelligence, set boundaries that stick and create safer, more productive conversations where performance and trust grow.
Walk away with a repeatable approach for high-stakes situations so you become the steady, trusted person who knows what to do, no matter what happens next.
Themes include: hiring and interviewing, nonverbal communication; emotions at work, difficult conversations and conflict, everyday communication and collaboration, practical leadership habits.
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A timeless business classic, Who Moved My Cheese? is a simple parable that reveals profound truths about dealing with change so that you can enjoy less stress and more success in your work and in your life.
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This is the amusing and enlightening story of four characters who live in a maze and look for cheese to nourish them and make them happy.
Cheese is a metaphor for what you want to have in life, for example a good job, a loving relationship, money or possessions, health or spiritual peace of mind.
The maze is where you look for what you want, perhaps the organisation you work in, or the family or community you live in. The problem is that the cheese keeps moving.
In the story, the characters are faced with unexpected change in their search for the cheese. One of them eventually deals with change successfully and writes what he has learned on the maze walls.
Discover the secret of the writing on the wall for yourself and learn how to anticipate, adapt to, and enjoy change whenever you need to. Written for all ages, this story takes less than an hour to read, but its unique insights will last a lifetime.
Exploring a simple way to take the fear and anxiety out of managing the future, Who Moved My Cheese? is the life-changing guide to help you accept change and enjoy less stress and more success in your work and life.