Category: Professionalism

Social Cues: My Crazy Office Overtime, Season 6

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

Are you good at reading social cues?

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Personal Politics: My Crazy Office Overtime, Season 5

Kathi and Katherine talk about personal politics on this week’s My Crazy Office Overtime episode.

How do you keep politics out the workplace in this challenging time?

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#20: How To Work For and With Friends – My Crazy Office, Season 5

Kathi and Katherine talk about working with friends on this week’s episode of the My Crazy Office podcast.

First we give advice about how to turn a personal relationship into a professional one.

Then we discuss the pluses and minuses of working with friends.

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Cliques: Forming, Joining Or Rejecting – My Crazy Office Overtime, Season 4

Kathi and Katherine talk about cliques on this week’s My Crazy Office Overtime episode.

Why do cliques form in the workplace? Is it a help or a hindrance to join or reject these office clans?

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#40: Human Resources – My Crazy Office, Season 4

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

We give advice to an employee who reaches out to human resources only to be denied aid for a workplace problem.

Then we discuss how to integrate healthy interpersonal relationships in the workplace with or without HR.

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High IQ, Low EQ: My Crazy Office Overtime, Season 4

Kathi and Katherine talk about IQ and EQ on this week’s My Crazy Office Overtime episode.

What are the differences between IQ and EQ? How is having high IQ but low EW detrimental for the workplace?

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#33: When A Coworker Derails Your Plans – My Crazy Office, Season 4

Kathi and Katherine talk about sticking to your plan on this week’s episode of the My Crazy Office podcast.

First we give advice about how to work with someone who is always changing the plan.

Then we discuss people who cannot stick to plans.

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#31: Managing Unenthusiastic Employees – My Crazy Office, Season 4

Kathi and Katherine talk about how to manage lazy employees on this week’s episode of the My Crazy Office podcast.

First we give advice to a supervisor who doesn’t know how to motivate unenthusiastic employees to do their jobs.

Then we discuss working with “low-beamers” and their workplace effects.

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