What to Do If...?: How to Handle Any Situation at Work and Come Out Winning - Paperback

by Anne-Maartje Oud (Author)

Reclaim your confidence at work so you can hire smarter, read the room and lead difficult moments without second-guessing yourself. What To Do If...? helps you handle real workplace situations with clarity and confidence.

Written by workplace behavior specialist Anne-Maartje Oud, this field-tested guide distils the 35 questions she's heard most over two decades training managers, HR professionals and teams. Organized into five focused parts on personal development, communication, collaboration, leadership and difficult conversations, it blends research, real examples and simple tools you can use right away.

Learn how to spot toxic hiring red flags before they damage your culture, decode body language and nonverbal cues, and respond constructively when emotions run high or someone cries at work. Use practical scripts, checklists and decision points to prepare for interviews, lead confident one-to-ones and navigate conflict with calm authority. Build emotional intelligence, set boundaries that stick and create safer, more productive conversations where performance and trust grow.

Walk away with a repeatable approach for high-stakes situations so you become the steady, trusted person who knows what to do, no matter what happens next.

Themes include: hiring and interviewing, nonverbal communication; emotions at work, difficult conversations and conflict, everyday communication and collaboration, practical leadership habits.

Author Biography

Anne-Maartje Oud is founder and CEO of The Behaviour Company, an Amsterdam-based consultancy that customises personal development programmes for companies and organizations worldwide. She has worked with non-profit social organizations as well as some of the world's most prominent Fortune 500 companies. With over twenty years of experience, she is considered one of the world's leading experts in the field of workplace behaviour. She is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.