Part of the syllabus of Paper
II (Rumours and Gossips), Office Dynamics Course
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2. Spreading rumour and gossip – Best Practices. Times of the day:
Sluggish Morning, Active Lunch, Fertile Afternoon. (…) Spreading Rumour as
superior and as subordinate. Types of spread: relay race, Chinese whisper,
branching out, addition and subtraction, creative writing, snowballing,
mystification, obfuscation. Step-by-step progressions. Three Phases of gossips:
Beginning, Spreading and Believing.
3. Tracking of rumours – Maintaining a daily log. Tracking areas:
canteen, toilets, coffee machine, smoking zone, common room, corridor.
Advantage and disadvantages. Tracking through naturally snoopy colleagues. Status
of a rumour: active, beneath the surface, dormant, forgotten. Stoking the Fire.
Methods and tools for the same.
4. Gathering of information from gossips. Believability of Colleagues.
Trust-factors of a gossip. Checking authenticity of a rumour or gossip: origin,
route of spread, motive of spread, general opinion and feelings about the
target. When one knows the gossip is a lie. Handling lies: believing,
rejecting, keeping a tab, spreading, encouraging and discouraging. (…)
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