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How Employees Experience Being Fired, And What You Can Learn From It

by karlyn | Dec 7, 2018 | All Articles, Guide Your Career, Managing Employees

Confession time: I’ve been fired on more than one occasion. The first time, it came with zero warning. I had no indication it was coming, had received no negative feedback, performance review, or improvement plan. I was working hard one minute and the next I was a...

Five Things To Stop Doing To Be More Mindful At Work

by karlyn | Dec 4, 2018 | All Articles, Mindfulness

The world is a perfect place. It’s not perfect in the sense that we get what we want the minute we dream it up. However, it is perfect in that we will get exactly what we should expect to get based on how we’re contributing to the...

Five Ways To Go From Being A Good Boss To A Great Boss

by karlyn | Nov 27, 2018 | All Articles, Managing Employees

There are a lot of bad bosses out there—that’s no surprise. In fact, 65% of Americans would choose to fire their boss over getting a pay raise. But what gets lost in the midst of trying to stop an awful lot of bad behaviors is the fact that there are a fair...

SURVEY: Tell me about the time you were fired.

by karlyn | Jun 6, 2018 | All Articles, For Employees

  Being fired. It’s one of the most confidence-shattering, shame-inducing things that can happen to a professional. And because of that, people rarely talk about their experiences openly, mostly keeping it to their close friends and family members. That...

Can you adapt authentically?

by karlyn | Jan 23, 2018 | All Articles, Making Good Choices, Productivity, Working With Others

Can you adapt authentically? One of the things I’m always preaching about is the necessity of adaptation in the workplace as a way to help you achieve your goals and build better working relationships. Essentially, this has a few steps to it: Being consistently...

How to run the best one-on-one meetings

by karlyn | Jan 16, 2018 | All Articles, Engagement & Morale, For Employers & Leaders, Managing Employees

How to run the best one-on-one meetings One of the most under-appreciated tools of any managers toolkit is that of the one-on-one meeting. It’s a regular time for you to connect with each person reporting to you, get a sense of what they’re working on,...
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