Tag: career advice

Communication Under Stress: My Crazy Office Overtime, Season 4

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

Do you talk too much or not enough when you are placed in a stressful situation at work?

Listen here for advice.

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#27: Self-Assessment At Work – My Crazy Office, Season 4

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

First we address a question about self-assessment and performance evaluation.

Then we discuss how to get proper feedback from your boss.

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Emotional Triggers: My Crazy Office Overtime, Season 4

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

What should you do when someone or something at work triggers an emotional response?

Listen here.

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#26: How To Fire – My Crazy Office, Season 4

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

First we give advice about how to fire an employee.

Then we discuss our own experiences with being fired.

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Stepping On Your Boss’s Toes: My Crazy Office Overtime, Season 4

Kathi and Katherine talk about stepping on your boss’s toes on this week’s My Crazy Office Overtime episode.

What are some examples of actions or behaviors that would be considered “toe-stepping?”

And if you step on your boss’s toes, how do you fix it? Listen here for more.

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Fear of Success: My Crazy Office Overtime, Season 4

Kathi and Katherine talk about the fear of success on this week’s My Crazy Office Overtime episode.

What is the fear of success and how does it differ from fear of failure?

Are you holding yourself back? Listen here.

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My Crazy Office – Episode 2

Passive Aggressive behavior is hard to manage because it’s hard to detect, and impossible to confront. Kathi and Katherine tackle a listener’s question about handling a co-worker who talks trash about others behind their backs. They advise a boss who wants to detect passive aggressive employees before they do damage to the team.

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What’s one thing you can complete today?

In this age of multi-tasking, multi-texting, multi-platforms and constant responding, it can be very difficult to feel a sense of accomplishment at the end of a work day.

Each day may require that you attend several meetings, respond to hundreds of emails, juggle many projects.

One way to help yourself get organized is to simply decide on ONE THING that you need to accomplish each day. Pick one thing — it could be a sales pitch you need to finish or an important email that you want to send. It could be a call you’ve been meaning to make, or a design you want to refine.

Focus on and complete one thing — It will help the rest of your day fall into place. And it will satisfy that part of your mind that needs to see results.

Try it. Pick one thing. Complete it. Check it off the list. Then see how you feel.