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 | Feb 18, 2014 | For Employees, Working With Others
You’re pitching a proposal that you’ve been working on for weeks to a group of your peers and managers at your organization. You’ve covered all your bases and feel like you have it down cold. You nail your presentation and the floor is open for...
by karlyn | Feb 2, 2014 | All Articles, Building Relationships, For Employees, For Employers & Leaders, Working With Others
Zappos made headlines recently when it announced its reorganization into a holacracy by eliminating job titles, managers and hierarchy in favor self-governing system made up of teams, or “circles.” Though this new system would seem to put people first, and...
by karlyn | Jun 25, 2013 | For Employees, For Employers & Leaders, Making Good Choices, Stress & Coping, Working With Others
Think about a time when you’ve been upset at work. Nothing has gone right, your boss is coming down on you, there’s too much going on to handle, the people working for you just don’t seem to get it. You’re having a bad day. Now, think about how...
by karlyn | Jun 3, 2013 | All Articles, For Employees, For Employers & Leaders, Making Good Choices, Stress & Coping, Working With Others
To err is human. To forgive, divine. One of my worst moments as a professional came after months of being under a tremendous amount of stress and pressure, to the point where it was making me physically ill. I was working for someone who was utterly useless as a boss,...
by karlyn | Nov 27, 2012 | All Articles, For Employees, For Employers & Leaders, Managing Employees, Working With Others, Workplace Bullying
Many of us grow up having the golden rule repeated to us over and over again: Treat others the way you would want to be treated. In theory, this sounds great. It creates a baseline of acceptable behavior with a yardstick that we all have at our finger tips – we...
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