Conversations from the Heart
A weekly, soul-nourishing podcast offering psychologically grounded, heart-centered reflections on human relationships, inner healing, and compassion-based communication.
Focused on live mini-coaching moments to help callers shift from reactive, domination-based communication to collaborative, heart-centered connection. Listen for new scripts for stuck situations, new ways of responding to old relationship dynamics and guidance on how to approach these situations with empathy, self-awareness, and effective communication strategies. Here, we emphasize understanding both one's own needs and the needs of others, creating safe spaces for vulnerable conversations, and finding ways to express ourselves authentically while respecting others' boundaries.
Conversations from the Heart
#42 - What to Do When Your Boss Criticizes You
It can be hard to enjoy work f you're in a power up/power down situation with a boss who consistently criticizes you.
It is especially challenging if you don't trust the perspective that your supervisor has.
In today's mini-episode, we discuss strategies for handling criticism at work in ways that build understanding and reduce tension.
Although a clean and tidy resolution may not always be possible, it is an option to go to bat for yourself and your needs, while also actively listening to what your boss offers.
In this episode we explore:
- 4:34 My boss' criticism feels like a way to control me
- 5:58 Her criticism tells you about her, not about you
- 10:42 Personalizing - not generalizing - impact
- 13:42 Reflecting her to her
- 14:09 Sitting in the tension of two perspectives
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