JANUARY 2018 UP MAG

Can you handle
“The Truth”
By Nikita Lawrence
The Wealth Success Leadership Strategist
Oftentimes it can be a rather daunting task to candidly share our
unvarnished truth about a given subject, project, employee, or
supervisor when called upon for our thoughts or feedback in the
workplace, or as leaders, in a round table discussion. In the wake of
restructuring, downsizing, and outsourcing, the last thing you want to
do is “ruffle any feathers”, right? A million hypothetical questions may
quickly swarm through your mind at about a hundred miles per
second until you finally work up the courage to delightfully refrain
from giving your true feedback. You know, the flavorful insight that
you share at the dinner table with your spouse, or what you share
with your girlfriend over drinks after a rough day at work. You may be
thinking to yourself, when your boss is asking for your thoughts, he or
she doesn’t really, really, want my unvarnished truth, right?
How do you say with the utmost political correctness the last year has
been dreadful? Is there a proper term to use that would sound more
tactful than dreadful? Perhaps challenging would much better
suffice? Yes, challenging sounds much more acceptable than dreadful,
awful, horrific, or any other words that may have truly come to mind.
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