Tag: time management

7 Qualities Bosses Want The Most: My Crazy Office Overtime, Season 5

Kathi and Katherine talk about qualities your boss wants on this week’s My Crazy Office Overtime show.

What qualities can you practice at work to make your boss love you?

Listen to this week’s podcast here.

Podcast: Play in new window

Your Relationship To Time: My Crazy Office Overtime, Season 4

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

What is your relationship to time? How can you alter that relationship to be successful in the workplace?

Listen to this week’s podcast here.

Podcast: Play in new window

#32: How To Effectively Manage Staff – My Crazy Office, Season 4

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

First we give advice about how to manage a difficult employee – especially if you are short on time.

Then we discuss how to make and take the time to effectively manage your staff.

Podcast: Play in new window

12 Questions To Ask Yourself When Hiring A New Employee

The 12 questions to ask yourself when hiring a new employee

  1. Is this person capable of multitasking and learning at the level we need?
  2. Does this person take negative or constructive feedback from management well?
  3. Does this person have the time management skills required for this job?
  4. Has this person demonstrated that he/she comprehends this position fully?
  5. Can this person take direction? Or is this person a bad listener?
  6. Does this person ask the right questions? Or does this person ask the same questions too often?
  7. Does this person show initiative?
  8. Has this person proved to me that they have a desire to learn the job they are being hired to do?
  9. Does this person have enthusiasm for the work we do?
  10. Does this person have the skills that is required to do this job?
  11. Does this person communicate clearly?
  12. Does this person fit our culture?