Dealing with Difficult Coworkers: The Gossip

Our Dealing with Difficult Coworkers: The Gossip course shows you how to handle gossiping co-workers effectively. Office gossip seems like an unavoidable part of the workplace, and it may be. But YOU don’t have to participate in it. There’s likely one person, or a group of people, who thrive on spreading office gossip in your workplace. You’ll be much happier with your work environment if you can learn to work with them, while avoiding the gossip. In this course, we’ll discuss the characteristics of a gossip and why their behavior can be toxic. We’ll also cover what you should and shouldn’t share with these people, and how to react if they spill office secrets to you.

Part of our Dealing With Difficult Coworkers series, The Gossip course includes a brief video with audio narration, downloadable materials and a quiz. Take this course along with others in the series to acquire constructive methods of dealing with these common workplace challenges.