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‘Who Gets Heard? What Gets Done?’
Expert Linguist Tannen Looks at Workplace Dynamics |
| By Carla Garnett |
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Dr. Deborah Tannen, a scholar at Georgetown University, talks workplace dynamics at NIH. |
Is your boss overly bossy? Why does every conversation with your coworker feel like a competition? Could you be clearer about making assignments? How much more could your organization accomplish if you all communicated better? To offer insight into these questions, language expert Dr. Deborah Tannen gave a Deputy Director for Management Seminar recently in a packed Masur Auditorium. The goal of the talk was simple.“If we understand ways of speaking and how they vary, we’ll be able to judge others more accurately,” she said. “You have hopes for your own communication to be judged more accurately, but also [everyone wants to] get more work done and influence who gets credit for the work that gets done.”
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Bike to Work Day Draws Crowds, Director |
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NIH director Dr. Francis Collins pedals down Center Dr. on BTWD. |
As most employees know, Bike to Work Day is observed at NIH every day of the year—especially in years like 2012 when there was essentially no winter—by quite a few of our colleagues.
But on May 18, pedalers were out in force, including, for the third year in a row, NIH director Dr. Francis Collins, who cruised down Center Dr. with his wife Diane Baker on the official BTWD. And for the 7th year in a row, NIH had the most registered participants in the event among local organizations, according to the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (MWCOG).
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