Collaboration Up / Toxic Gossip Down

Situations Covered In The Lessons

Strategies become available
after you complete the short & sweet lessons.

Course Lessons
44 minutes of video time

Good Gossip Situations

Desperation over a coworker

 

Opening a door by satisfying a need

 

Unimagined success

 

Connections creating trust

 

Bad Gossip Situations

Stereotyping instead of assistance from a nonprofit

 

Village crony clique

 

Crony clique committee

 

Inappropriate behavior

 

Ugly Gossip Situations

Backstabbing coworker

 

Insulting manager

 

Backstabbing coworker

 

Supervisor to avoid

 

Social Gossip Cells

Improving performance through improved relationships

 

Task Gossip Cells Lessons

Bringing employees together

 

Bad Gossip Cells That Exclude Others

Village crony clique

 

Ugly Gossip Cells That Exclude Others

Feminists excluding coworkers

 

Gossip Ears Networking: Good Gossip

Girl standing up to mean girls

 

Gossip Ears Networking: Bad Gossip

Maintaining distance from a coworker making fun of other coworkers

 

Gossip Ears Networking: Ugly Gossip

Coworker manufacturing stereotypes to hide their slacking

 

Catalysts

You can never tell just by looking at people who could change your life or career.

 

3 Sieves

Real World Example: What to say and what not to say about the son of the real Godfather.

 

Testimony For Truth

Using the 3 sieves with evidence for documenting testimony for truth.

Real World Examples
For Strategies

Paula updates strategies when
she finds supporting resources.

Paula is adding strategy information
so you know what you are getting.
Slow process because she is in a wheelchair with
a fractured pelvis after a fall on ice.
Stay upright yourself!

 

Good Gossip Strategy Situations

3 1-second connections for your workplace and community

 

Supervisor matching actions to reduce tensions between employees
Supervisor strategies for matching rewards to employees

 

Supervisor strategy for fitting employees into business needs and reducing workplace tensions

 

Supervisor strategy for c0nnections between employees

 

Employee strategies for dealing with bad bosses

 

Invitations to bystanders

 

Plus, mindsets for success

 

Bad Gossip Strategy Situations

Behind the back bad gossip about particular targets

 

Insults about other people on social media

 

Taunting encounter with a community member

 

Face-to-face workplace conflicts

 

Repeated bad gossip in a single conversation

 

Countering bad gossip stories

 

Insults about you on social media

 

Ugly Gossip Strategy Situations

Supervisors ignoring problems
Having a witness to back you up when supervisors ignore problems

 

Nonstop ugly gossip from a board member, a supervisor, a professor

 

Stereotyping supervisor and stereotyping Special Olympics volunteer

 

District meeting of county managers

 

Lies and insults about other people on LinkedIn

 

Insult about you on Facebook
(Years later, Paula is still laughing about the opportunity the stereotyper handed her.)

 

Gossip Cells Strategy Situations

Connecting gossip cells

 

Creating effective and cohesive task cells

Connecting different task cells

 

Employee trainings for business longevity

 

Gossip Ears Strategy Situations

3 things to listen for and the best place for workplace listening

2 topics to guide your networking

Listening to outsiders

3Ps for finding career catalysts

Opening doors to possible catalysts when you hear this

Listening for catalyst connections you could make

Listening for power skills

5 steps for inviting other people to listen to you

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© Paula M. Kramer, 2025 to the present
All rights reserved.
Updated February 14, 2026.