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 | Jan 31, 2015 | For Employers & Leaders, Meetings
Consider your average white collar professional making $45,000/year, not including benefits. At that rate, it would cost an organization about $25 for this person to sit in an hour long meeting. That’s not too bad. But now consider that the average American...
by karlyn | Dec 21, 2014 | All Articles, Engagement & Morale, For Employers & Leaders, Leadership, Managing Employees
The economy has rebounded and recruiters agree that it’s a candidate’s job market. That means your employees have options that weren’t there just a few years ago. Have your HR policies caught up? Dumb HR policies typically come about when managers...
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 28, 2014 | Engagement & Morale, For Employers & Leaders, Frameworks, Managing Employees, Professional Development
We know that it’s far cheaper to retain an employee than to replace them. But in order to understand how to retain, we first need to understand the elements that go into an employee’s decision to stay or leave their job. Generally speaking, there are three...
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