This week (5/3/10 to 5/9/10) Work Matters explores the best way to positively confront your boss.

Do you know how to give your boss bad news without appearing that you are a complainer? To what extent are you adept at sharing difficult information with your employer? When and how is it appropriate to offer your manager ideas that could improve a work situation? And, more importantly, how can you do it without the conversation backfiring?

This week's guest Lynne Eisaguirre is a former employment attorney and the author of We Need to Talk: Tough Conversations with Your Boss . Lynne offers some ideas of how to successfully mediate a potentially explosive confrontation and end up with positive change.

Then, in the regular segment of Uncommon Sense, Nan and her colleague Beth Pelkofsky field listener questions. They also discuss a recent article from The New York Times about overqualified workers.

Have you read Nan's award winning book? Take a look at "Hitting Your Stride" on Amazon.com. Or, you might like her book "Nibble Your Way to Success"

Call Nan on her toll free number 866-944-8195 and tell her what's going on in your work world and why your work matters.