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 | Jan 22, 2015 | Office Politics
Office politics. The very phrase typically garners a visceral reaction, everything from a subtle tensing of the shoulders to an eye roll, to an outspoken declaration that they will NEVER engage in political wrangling. Here’s the bad news: Office politics is not...
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 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 | Oct 27, 2014 | All Articles, Happiness, Stress & Coping
I gave a presentation at the 2014 HighEdWeb Annual Conference called Playing Politics last week, about how to navigate the human aspects of the workplace in a positive way. It talks about how people think, and why they make the decisions they do, and adapting behavior...
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...
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...
by karlyn | Sep 21, 2014 | All Articles, For Employers & Leaders, Happiness, Organization Culture, Positive Psychology
I left my first post-college professional position after a little over four years on the job. In that time, I had worked my tail off for the organization with 60-80 hour weeks as the norm, had been promoted twice, and had built a program that was one of the most...
by karlyn | Jul 15, 2014 | DiSC, For Employees, Happiness, Toxic Working Environments, Your Questions Answered
I received a request on LinkedIn for an article about how to work for a capricious boss – one who is prone to sudden and unpredictable changes in behavior and decisions. There also may be a lack of communication on their part, and an expectation of mind...
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