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Pat Answers

For managers and HR professionals, the most challenging part of the job is often people who are in – or who create – conflict.  Chronic complainers, team members who aren’t team players, senior managers who don’t manage, office gossip and politics, all cost organizations time, money and energy that could be better spent on the business of doing business. Pat Answers can help!

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Pat Answers is a column addressing workplace problems and offering concise, witty, contemporary advice for both employees and employers.  It combines practical information with common sense in a no-nonsense question-and-answer format. Many employment issues stem from poor communication and lack of clarity regarding mutual expectations. Pat Answers enables readers to voice their concerns, while providing realistic, candid solutions, stressing personal responsibility and accountability.

Including Pat Answers in your employee newsletter, company magazine or other internal publication can benefit your organization by:
· Addressing common workplace problems in a centralized, HR-approved forum
· Freeing HR personnel and upper management to handle more pressing concerns
· Attracting more readership to publications you use to disseminate important information to employees

Pat Grigadean, professional mediator, trainer, and employee-relations specialist, has been in private practice in Austin, Texas since 1990.  She has published articles on communication and conflict resolution and co-authored a conflict resolution curriculum for high school freshmen.  She created Pat Answers to help organizations reduce turnover and maximize productivity, while assisting individuals enjoy greater job satisfaction and happier, more harmonious working relationships.

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Pat Grigadean & Associates
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Last updated July 7, 2006
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