Questions tagged [groups]
Use this tag to ask about interpersonal skills or problems focused on interactions within a group of people as opposed to a one on one interaction.
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How to handle a person joining a conversation by asking a question you just answered?
I ran into this issue multiple times and I don't know how to act. For context: communicating in groups does not come naturally to me, so I often rely on skills I learned over time and not everyone may ...
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7 votes
2 answers
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How to gain group respect in a workplace setting?
This question is posted as first person but on the behalf of another person. Some details might be lacking. I work in a nursing home, as a full time employee since two weeks. My contract is for a ...
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3 votes
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Native english speaking project partner writes in broken english
Issue I'm doing my capstone course for an engineering diploma program One of my partners is a native English speaker, but has severe issues in their writing In conversation she is fine, but has an ...
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3 votes
2 answers
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Dealing with a new clique
My research group has a new member who is more outgoing than anyone else and draws a lot of attention to himself. He likes socializing a lot more frequently than I prefer to and has a more-the-...
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5 votes
1 answer
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How to politely address the rude accusations being thrown your way?
I don't know if the title of this post is explanatory and descriptive or not, but I shall be giving a detailed insight of my problem below. Situation: There is this committee in our college who ...
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2 votes
1 answer
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How to do you politely tell somebody to stop interrupting a conversation? [closed]
Participants: person A was telling a story; person B (me) asked a follow-up question while person A was talking (telling the story); person C (a friend) aggressively told me to stop interrupting. The ...
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3 votes
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How do I convince my friends to move their group chat?
I am in a fairly large friend group - 12 people. We all go to the same school, but don’t interact much during the school day. Everyone in this group uses apple devices except one person - me. This ...
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17 votes
3 answers
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How can I jump into a fast-moving group conversation?
Recently I was invited to a casual games night at a coworker's place, and near the end of the evening there was a group of about 6 of us (a couple coworkers of mine, a couple friends of theirs, my ...
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8 votes
1 answer
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How can I greet people when I encounter someone searching for bottles in trash cans?
Often, when I bring out trash, I see homeless people (maybe not all of them are homeless, I'm not sure) searching for plastic bottles and other things in trash cans. Usually I greet neighbors and ...
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9 votes
1 answer
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Stop disrupting behavior from a complete stranger
I recently started learning a new language. Together with studying it, I am also attending a conversation group, where people learning the language and people with native proficiency in the same ...
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6 votes
1 answer
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Raising the stakes in a game without sounding eager or greedy
I was playing cards with some friends. The game was based on points, which we could use for bidding, hence winning or losing them. The game seemed to go well, until I had the impression that the ...
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4 votes
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How do I stop my classmates from overusing class property?
My classmates simply love doodling on the whiteboard. Using our class markers. Not only do I find it useless and annoying (it often causes chaos with what they write) it uses up ink. Just a week after ...
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Avoiding conflict when showing my family my new name
I don't like my name, I never had. Recently, I found myself a new name that I really love and I have started using it online. Now, the thing is that I just received a (nice) mug with my "new name" on ...
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18 votes
2 answers
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How do I diplomatically get someone to hurry up and make a trivial decision?
This question was initially triggered by an incident with a houseguest a few months ago. Earlier in the day, he was tossing up whether to join a group of us who were going out for a drink in the ...
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4 votes
4 answers
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How to make a new trainee feel comfortable at lunch?
Today, one of my coworkers "tasked" me to eat with the new trainee (so that she won't eat alone since my colleague wasn't available for lunch). I wanted this person to feel comfortable so I ...
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