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Advice Career Career Advice Communication Goal Setting Management Managing Down Managing Up My Crazy Office Podcast #2: Managing Up – My Crazy Office, Season 8 January 19, 2021 by Logan Medrano | Leave a Comment Kathi and Katherine talk about managing up on this week’s episode of the My Crazy Office podcast. First we give advice to a worker whose boss always presents new goals and agendas but never sticks to them. Then we discuss what a manager can do if they set goals for their team but nothing gets done. Read more » advice career career advice communication goal setting management managing down managing up my crazy office podcast
Advice Behavior Communication Incompetence Management Managing Down Managing Up My Crazy Office Podcast #15: Incompetence – My Crazy Office, Season 7 October 13, 2020 by Logan Medrano | Leave a Comment Kathi and Katherine talk about incompetence on this week’s episode of the My Crazy Office podcast. First we give advice to a worker whose incompetent boss just got fired but there is fear the replacement will be worse. Then we discuss what a manager should do if they think they’ve been doing a good job but […] Read more » advice behavior communication incompetence management managing down managing up my crazy office podcast
Accountability Advice Assumption Career Communication Management Managing Down Managing Up Mistake My Crazy Office Podcast Work Work Advice #46: Owning Mistakes – My Crazy Office, Season 6 December 10, 2019 by Logan Medrano | Leave a Comment Kathi and Katherine talk about mistakes on this week’s episode of the My Crazy Office podcast. First we give advice to someone whose boss always assumes the employee is at fault. Then we discuss what managers can do if they have an employee who refuses to own their mistakes. Read more » accountability advice assumption career communication management managing down managing up mistake my crazy office podcast work work advice
Advice Behavior Business Career Communication HR Job Lazy Co-Workers Low Beamers Management Managing Down Managing Up My Crazy Office Podcast Slacker Slacking Work Work Advice #34: Pulling The Weight of Others – My Crazy Office, Season 4 September 26, 2017 by Logan Medrano | Leave a Comment Kathi and Katherine talk about people who don’t pull their weight on this week’s episode of the My Crazy Office podcast. First we give advice about how to get a coworker to respond and ‘show up’ when they need to. Then we discuss how to work with people who do not pull their own weight. Read more » advice behavior business career career advice communication human resources job lazy coworkers management managing down managing up my crazy office podcast slacker slacking work work advice
Advice Behavior Business Career Cell Phones Disruptions Interpersonal Skills Management Managing Down Managing Up My Crazy Office Phubbing Podcast Professionalism Relationships Work Work Advice #35 – Phubbing (aka Phone Snubbing): My Crazy Office, Season 2 October 12, 2015 / June 7, 2016 by Logan Medrano | Leave a Comment Kathi and Katherine discuss phubbing – or “phone snubbing” – in the workplace on this episode of the My Crazy Office podcast. First we give advice to an employee whose boss is constantly distracted by his smart phone. Then we give guidance to a manager who has inattentive employees due to their smart phone use […] Read more »