Difficult conversations with a new colleague can preserve their professional safety

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Difficult conversations with a new colleague can preserve their professional safety

Gaeline Phipps

Gaeline Phipps

Colleagues
Comments made, intended to be sympathetic, were taken as being intrusive

A physical gesture to reassure patients, such as a hand on the shoulder, or personal advice intended as being helpful that a colleague finds offensive, are both common pitfalls new colleagues from overseas risk encountering, says Wellington barrister Gaeline Phipps

Many years ago, while in a traf­fic jam waiting to cross back into the US at the Mexican border, I discov­ered my green visa-waiver certificate had be