How to Be a Friendly Professional

How to Be a Friendly Professional

Tweet this post.Relationship or relation-sink? How do you build rapport without over-sharing? Or, do you even need a personal relationship to get the editing done? Today I talk friendliness and boundaries (and the many layers of cultural sensitivities) in professional situations — in my How To column at Copyediting.com.

  • Rapport and Cultural Expectations
  • Rapport Without the Creep
  • Rapport Without Drama

Have you made friends with the writer you were editing? Did an author over-share? Where do you draw the line? Leave a comment to tell us how you handle the interpersonal side of editing, or join us over on Facebook or Twitter.

 

Link to my columns on Copyediting.com

 

photo art with eye superimposed on a palm, by SGT Pablo Piedra used under CC BY-2.0 license https://www.flickr.com/photos/familymwr/4930275692/ 

Photo by Pablo Piedra, used under CC BY-2.0 license.

 

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