The other day I caught myself being defensive about adding color on my website. What would make me go off like that? Any time I'm that adamant, I know there is some hidden treasure I can learn from it.

Here's Some of the Advantages of Being Defensive at Work...

We can...

• Avoid changing our mindset or behaviors.
• Pretend it makes us a strong leader.
• Hide our doubts and the fear of losing control.
• Take full advantage of using excuses.
• Camouflage our oversensitivity.
• Keep ourselves busy constantly defending our position.
• Save time by not being open to other options or the actual facts.
• Think we are being unfairly treated and our defense will save us.
• Use it as a way to attack others' suggestions.
• Stay away from getting to neutral and listening to our intuition or gut instincts.
• Focus our attention on being right instead of being successful.
• Stops wasting time and money with research and development.
• Confuse being defensive with being passionate about our work.
• Avoid being a better worker or having a better company.

So what are you defending at work? Maybe it's a procedure or system or your expertise in that area. Perhaps it's a boss, customer or co-worker. Or it might be like me, a marketing strategy.

If you are ready to stop being defensive, contact Vickie Champion or call her at 480-838-9866 PST  for a complimentary coaching and consulting session.

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