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Best Of: Critical, Controlling Bosses – My Crazy Office, Season 7

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Kathi and Katherine talk about critical, controlling bosses on this week’s episode of the My Crazy Office podcast. First we give advice to someone who is struggling with a new boss who corrects everything she does. Then we ask what if you are a manager who is called a micromanager?

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Best Of: When Life Events Change Priorities: My Crazy Office Overtime, Season 7

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Kathi and Katherine talk about priority change on this week’s My Crazy Office Overtime show. What happens when life events change your priorities and your job becomes less of a concern? Listen to this week’s podcast here.

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Give Your Brain a Break

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As we approach a holiday weekend and the rollout of summer, now is a good time to take concrete steps to give your brain a break. “A break from what?” You may ask. A break from being “on” and in hyper-alert mode for four months straight.  I’m willing to bet that most of our brains […]

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Negotiating During a Pandemic

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What are you negotiating for at work? Is it a promotion? A raise? Working from home full time? A new position? Working less? Changing teams? Retirement? Whatever aspect of your work life you are currently negotiating, the pandemic makes an already unpredictable task more stressful then usual. Negotiating is not everyone’s favorite thing to do. It can […]

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Are Your Priorities Changing at Work?

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The past few months of weathering the pandemic, and living with social, political and economic upheaval, have also acted as a time for reflection and reconsideration of what really matters to us. Where ever you are in your career, you may be re-calibrating your priorities.   As we enter the summer months and (hopefully) take […]

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New Social Contracts for the Workplace

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A social contract is an unofficial agreement shared by everyone in a society in which they give up some freedom for security. The philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau popularized the idea of the social contract in the 1700s, but it’s just as applicable today. A good example is when we go to the airport and go through security. We may not […]

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The Importance of Being Present

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With all of the upheaval and uncertainty we are facing, it can be more challenging than ever to be in the present moment. With the threat of another wave of COVID-19, with the death and losses already endured from the virus, with the pain and outrage over police brutality and the many forms of institutional racism […]

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