Bad Excuse Makers

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Summary: Bad excuse makers rely on excuses way too often. Learn how to prevent offenses in conversations from a communications instructor and professional speaker in this free video.

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Tracy Goodwin Tracy Goodwin has a master’s in corporate communication and 10 years experience in professional speaking. Recipient of numerous public speaking awards and is ... read more

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Bad Excuse Makers

Okay, let's talk about good and bad excuse makers. Alright, first, we're going to want to talk, I want to talk about bad excuse makers. The big thing, and I've mentioned it before already, is that bad excuse makers rely on excuses way too often. Okay, this is the guy that every day gets in traffic, or every day has a flat tire, or every day his cell phone dies, all the time, all the time uses excuses all the time, that's bad. You don't want to do that. Another bad excuse or bad excuse maker, is the person who blames everything on their colleagues, never willing to take responsibility for anything that he or she says or does. "Well, Jim did it, well, it was Jim in accounting, he screws everything up. Was the accounting department, you know how they are down in accounting!" or whatever it is, always blaming the colleagues. The bad excuse maker is always going to blame others, whether it's colleagues or sisters or whoever, will always blame someone other than his or herself. They also tend to attribute failure to others. Something doesn't work right, something gets broken. We don't get the contract, I don't, you know, I didn't get the party, I don't get the shirt, whatever it is, it was somebody else's fault, never that person, his or her fault. These bad excuse makers tend to never accept any responsibility for any of their actions, and that's what you want to stay away from, is being a bad excuse maker.