Category: Advice

Permission To Rest: My Crazy Office Overtime, Season 8

Kathi and Katherine talk about permission to rest on this week’s My Crazy Office Overtime show.

How can you give yourself permission to rest and what are its benefits?

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#26: New Leadership – My Crazy Office, Season 8

Kathi and Katherine talk about new leadership on this week’s episode of the My Crazy Office podcast.

This week we give advice to an employee around how to prepare for new leadership under a different CEO.

How should they prepare for this leadership change?

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I Don’t Want To Work So Hard: My Crazy Office Overtime, Season 8

Kathi and Katherine talk about hard-work on this week’s My Crazy Office Overtime show.

Have you learned that you don’t want to work so hard?

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#25: Exclusionary Workplace Cliques – My Crazy Office, Season 8

Kathi and Katherine talk about exclusionary workplace cliques on this week’s episode of the My Crazy Office podcast.

First we give advice to someone who likes their job but feels excluded by its workplace clique.

Then we give advice to managers that may inadvertently be forming cliques with staff that they’re most comfortable with.

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Necessary Lying: My Crazy Office Overtime, Season 8

Kathi and Katherine talk about lying on this week’s My Crazy Office Overtime show.

When is lying necessary?

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#24: Promoted Above Your Peers – My Crazy Office, Season 8

Kathi and Katherine talk about being promoted above your peers on this week’s episode of the My Crazy Office podcast.

First we give advice to someone who recently got promoted and is experiencing backlash from their former peers.

Then we consider how someone should handle the change in dynamics when their close colleague becomes their supervisor.

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Likability: My Crazy Office Overtime, Season 8

Kathi and Katherine talk about likability on this week’s My Crazy Office Overtime show.

When does likability help or hurt?

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#23: Distorted Sense of Self – My Crazy Office, Season 8

Kathi and Katherine talk about distorted self-perception on this week’s episode of the My Crazy Office podcast.

This week we give advice to a manager whose employee believes herself flexible, hardworking and a team player but she actually behaves in the opposite manner.

How can they manage someone with a distorted sense of self?

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