Towards the end of my last job I noticed I spent more time thinking about how to say things than what needed to be done. I found I was constantly worried about how I posed every opinion, and made sure no criticism was taken the wrong way. That’s when I realised, I wasn’t helping myself, I was just managing reactions. Have you ever been in a position where you were more concerned with how you said something rather than what you were saying?

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I've been in positions where I had to be careful what I said, just because some of my colleagues tended to be short-tempered and anything could set them off. I will say that being careful how you phrase things is not necessarily a bad thing, being thoughtful in communication is actually quite a useful skill. But in some circumstances it does come down to having to take into account how temperamental someone may be.

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