Navigating Toxic vs. Team Player: Your Guide to Workplace Personalities

30 Jul 2025 • 27 min • EN
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Tired of tiptoeing around tough personalities at work? Whether it's the micromanaging boss, the passive-aggressive peer, or the coworker who just rubs you the wrong way, this episode gives you the mindset and tools to navigate workplace personalities with emotional intelligence and influence. Learn how to decode personality types in the workplace and embrace differences instead of avoiding them—and how to use curiosity to challenge your own assumptions. Avoid being boxed in by similarity bias or typecast in ways that limit your potential. Manage up - leverage informal influence to have agency and power without needing a title. Align with leadership without losing your voice Use body language and mirroring strategies to build instant rapport Keep the peace and stay focused on your real goals 💡 Download The Perfectionist Trap Guide: architectingpodcast.com/perfectionismtrap   Stay Inspired, Angela Join the architecting community: YouTube, Instagram,  LinkedIn, Clubhouse, Facebook Interested in sponsoring a show or having me as a guest on your podcast or community? Stop here to get information. Into/outro music Alive by Richard Wasson Copyright 2019

From "ARCHITECTING Podcast - Career + Lifestyle Mentoring for Architects looking to move beyond overwhelm and make a difference through design"

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