Lifescripts: What to Say to Get What You Want in Life's Toughest Situations, Third Edition

In this Book

• Introduction
• Meeting Your New Supervisor
• Asking Your Supervisor for a Raise outside of the Annual Review Process
• Having Your Pay Cut
• Asking Your Supervisor for a Salary Advance
• Asking Your Supervisor for a Promotion
• Asking Your Supervisor for Help with Your Workload
• Asking Your Supervisor to Be Involved in Projects That Provide Greater Exposure
• Asking Your Supervisor for Time to Shadow in other Departments
• Asking Your Supervisor for More Responsibilities
• Your Responsibilities are Increased, but Not Your Pay
• Turning down an Assignment
• Asking Your Supervisor for Relief from a Project
• Asking Your Supervisor for a Deadline Extension
• Asking Your Supervisor for a Transfer
• Asking Your Supervisor for More Staff
• Your Staff is Cut
• Asking Your Supervisor for a Budget Increase
• Your Budget is Cut
• Going over Your Supervisor's Head
• Asking Your Supervisor if You Can Work from Home
• Asking Your Supervisor for a Schedule Adjustment to Accommodate School
• Asking Your Supervisor for Clearer Directions
• Asking Your Supervisor to Stop Micromanaging
• Breaking Bad News to Your Supervisor
• Explaining Rapid Staff Turnover to Your Supervisor
• Warning Your Supervisor of a Potential Client or Customer Problem
• Warning Your Supervisor of a Potential Vendor or Supplier Problem
• Apologizing for a Misdirected Email to Your Supervisor
• Defending an Expense Report to Your Supervisor
• Defending Your Own Performance from Criticism
• Putting an End to Verbal Abuse from Your Supervisor
• Putting an End to Unjust Criticism from Your Supervisor
• You're a Company Icon Being Terminated
• You're Terminated by a Friend
• You're Terminated When Close to Retirement
• You're Terminated When You Have a Personal Burden
• You're Terminated, but are Asked to Remain Available
• You're Asked to Become a Part-Time Employee
• Asking Your Supervisor for a Job Recommendation
• Negotiating Severance with Your Supervisor
• Giving Notice to Your Supervisor
• Meeting Your New Staff
• Responding to a Direct Report's Raise Request
• Responding to a Direct Report's Promotion Request
• Responding to a Direct Report's Request for Time off
• Responding to a Direct Report's Request to Hire Their Child
• Denying a Direct Report's Vacation Request
• Responding to a Direct Report's Request for a Schedule Adjustment
• Insisting on a More Positive Attitude from a Direct Report
• Insisting a Direct Report Show More Awareness of Ethical Issues
• Insisting a Direct Report Show More Respect for Diversity Efforts
• Insisting a Direct Report Improve Their Appearance
• Insisting on Better Hygiene from a Direct Report
• Putting an End to a Direct Report's Personal Telephone and Internet Use
• Dealing with a Direct Report's Repeated Lateness
• Putting an End to a Direct Report's Procrastination
• Correcting Repeated Mistakes by a Direct Report
• Insisting a Direct Report Improve Their Voice Manners
• Putting an End to a Direct Report's Personal Use of Equipment
• Requesting Better Meeting Manners from a Direct Report
• Dealing with Criticism a Direct Report Posts on Social Networking Platforms
• Questioning a Direct Report's Expenses
• Delivering a Critical Performance Review to a Direct Report
• Reducing the Size of a Direct Report's Staff
• Reducing the Size of a Direct Report's Workspace
• Apologizing to a Direct Report for Your Own Behavior
• Apologizing to a Direct Report for Unintended Gender Insensitivity
• Apologizing to a Direct Report for Unintended Cultural Insensitivity
• Extending a Direct Report's Responsibilities without Increasing Their Pay
• Increasing an Entire Staff's Hours but Not Their Pay
• Turning a Full-Time Direct Report into a Part-Timer
• Cutting an Entire Staff's Pay
• Cutting an Individual Direct Report's Pay
• Sending a Voluntary Termination Hint to a Direct Report
• Terminating a Friend
• Tattling on a Peer to Your Supervisor
• Telling Your Supervisor That Someone Else Took Credit for Your Idea
• Asking Your Supervisor for Help with a Problem Peer
• Asking Your Supervisor to Help When Another Department Oversteps Their Bounds
• Suggesting Less Drinking to a Coworker
• Putting an End to Backstabbing by Direct Reports
• Putting an End to Harassment by a Coworker
• Putting an End to a Direct Report's Gossiping
• Putting an End to a Direct Report's Brownnosing
• Putting an End to a Direct Report's Flirting
• Suggesting Better Hygiene to a Coworker
• Putting an End to a Coworker's Chronic Interruptions
• Putting an Endto a Coworker's Dishonest Behavior
• Asking a Coworker to Treat Your Staff with More Respect
• Asking a Coworker to Stop Backstabbing
• Refusing to Lie for a Coworker
• Putting an End to a Coworker's Romantic Overtures
• Asking a Coworker to Stop Gossiping
• Asking a Coworker to Come in Earlier and/or Stay Later
• Asking a Coworker to Improve the Quality of Their Work
• Correcting a Coworker's Mistakes
• Putting an End to a Coworker's Pilfering
• Asking a Coworker to Accelerate Their Work
• Asking a Coworker to Redo Their Work
• Requesting Better Meeting Manners from a Coworker
• Deflecting a Coworker's Probes for Personal Information
• Asking a Coworker to Stay within the Bounds of Their Role
• Asking a Coworker to Cover for You
• Asking a Coworker to Switch Vacations with You
• Apologizing to a Coworker for a Misdirected Email
• Apologizing to a Coworker for Unintended Gender Insensitivity
• Apologizing to a Coworker for Unintended Cultural Insensitivity
• Helping a Coworker Set More Realistic Goals
• Telling a Coworker Their Job May Be in Danger