by karlyn | Feb 20, 2015 | Building Relationships, Engagement & Morale, For Employees, For Employers & Leaders, Happiness, Leadership, Making Good Choices, Managing Employees, Office Politics, Organization Culture
Give someone else a win at work, and you win too. Picture this: You’re in the midst of launching a project at work and a colleague comes to you with some ideas about an aspect of it. They have a lot of experience in that area and seem to have put a lot of...
by karlyn | Feb 8, 2015 | Building Relationships, For Employees, For Employers & Leaders, Office Politics
Five Key Workplace Truths Every Professional Should Know There are unspoken rules that exist in the workplace that colleges don’t teach and HR rarely trains on, and those rules are a powerful influence of who advances and who does not. These are the “soft...
by karlyn | Feb 3, 2015 | For Employees, Happiness, Making Good Choices, Stress & Coping, Your Questions Answered
Today, a friend of mine asked me the following: “How do you know when you should quit your job?” My answer was simple: When you just don’t care anymore. There are any number signs that are pretty clear indications that you should quit your job. Here...
by karlyn | Jan 2, 2015 | All Articles, Exercises and Assessments, For Employees, Happiness, Making Good Choices, Work-Life Balance
Ask the average employee if they have work-life balance, and the answer will be a resounding “No!”. So, how do you go about fixing it? For most people, a long look in the mirror is required to find the answer. Here’s why: Achieving work-life balance...
by karlyn | Dec 9, 2014 | All Articles, For Employees, For Employers & Leaders, Managing Employees, Office Politics, Toxic Working Environments, Working With Others, Young Professionals
The question of how to deal with passive aggressive co-workers is one that I get more often than I would like. Here are a few thoughts on the subject. Are They Really Being Passive Aggressive? First, you have to make sure you’re identifying the problem...
by karlyn | Sep 24, 2014 | All Articles, For Employees, Happiness, Toxic Working Environments
Should you always give your employer two weeks to a month of advance notice when you are planning on leaving a job? Not necessarily. The vast majority of employees in the United States are “at will” employees. That means that your employer can fire you at...
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