Advice Behavior Business Career Communication Management Managing Down Managing Up My Crazy Office Podcast Priority Professional Growth Promotion Staff Work Work Advice Are You Too Busy Managing Down to Manage Up? September 26, 2023 by Logan Medrano | Leave a Comment On this episode of My Crazy Office, Kathi and Katherine explore a common management challenge — What if you are so busy managing down that you don’t have time to manage up? Kathi and Katherine start with a question from a manager who spends so much time helping her staff complete their work that she […] Read more » advice behavior career advice communication management managing up my crazy office my crazy office blog podcast staff management work advice workplace relationships
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Advice Behavior Business Career Communication Growth My Crazy Office Personal Growth Podcast Professional Growth Promotion Work Work Advice Taking Bold Steps To Jump-Start Your Career January 3, 2023 / January 3, 2023 by Logan Medrano | Leave a Comment Is your career stagnant? Are you feeling stuck or uninspired? On this episode of My Crazy Office, Kathi and Katherine ask a New Year’s question: What can you do to better yourself at work? “Bettering yourself” means committing to professional (and personal) growth in the new year. Read more » advice behavior Boundaries business therapy growth job my crazy office my crazy office blog podcast professionalism psychology work advice
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Advice Behavior Boundaries Career Career Advice Change Emotion Management My Crazy Office Podcast Promotion Workplace Relationships #24: Promoted Above Your Peers – My Crazy Office, Season 8 June 29, 2021 / June 29, 2021 by Logan Medrano | Leave a Comment Kathi and Katherine talk about being promoted above your peers on this week’s episode of the My Crazy Office podcast. First we give advice to someone who recently got promoted and is experiencing backlash from their former peers. Then we consider how someone should handle the change in dynamics when their close colleague becomes their […] Read more » advice behavior Boundaries career career advice change emotion management my crazy office podcast promotion workplace relationships
Advice Career Career Advice Change Management My Crazy Office New Position Podcast Promotion Roles #13: Employee to Equal – My Crazy Office, Season 8 April 13, 2021 by Logan Medrano | Leave a Comment Kathi and Katherine talk about being promoted to management on this week’s episode of the My Crazy Office podcast. First we give advice to someone who gets promoted to the same level as their boss. Then we discuss what a manager should do when their former employee becomes their equal. Read more » advice career career advice change management my crazy office new position podcast promotion roles
Advice Blog Communication Compromise My Crazy Office My Crazy Office Blog Negotiation Planning Preparation Promotion Raise Retirement Salary Values Negotiating During a Pandemic June 29, 2020 by Logan Medrano | 1 Comment on Negotiating During a Pandemic 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 […] Read more » advice blog communication compromise my crazy office my crazy office blog negotiation planning preparation raise retirement salary values