Advice Behavior Business Career Communication Employee Engagement Management Managing Down My Crazy Office Podcast Retention Work Advice Afraid Your Top Performer Might Leave? April 1, 2025 by Logan Medrano | Leave a Comment In this episode of My Crazy Office, Kathi and Katherine consider a challenging situation for any boss: What do you do if your top performer might leave? They start with a question from a manager who discovers that their best employee was almost poached by a competing organization. Kathi and Katherine discuss what you can […] Read more » advice employee retention keeping employees management managing down my crazy office podcast
Advice Behavior Business Business Parenting Career Communication Employee Engagement Management Managing Down My Crazy Office Podcast Work Work Advice Are Supervisory Shoulds Hurting You as a Manager? May 15, 2024 by Logan Medrano | Leave a Comment On this episode of My Crazy Office, Kathi and Katherine go over Ten Supervisory Shoulds that many managers hold about how their staff should behave. Supervisory Shoulds are beliefs that prevent managers from supervising their staff effectively. Do you believe you should only have to say something once? Do you assume your employees should know […] Read more » advice behavior Business Parenting career advice communication management managing down my crazy office my crazy office blog podcast Supervisory Shoulds working with you is killing me
Advice Behavior Boss Career Career Advice Complacency Complacent Leadership Management Managing Down Managing Up Morale Motivation My Crazy Office Podcast productivity #41: The Complacent Boss – My Crazy Office, Season 8 December 7, 2021 by Logan Medrano | Leave a Comment Kathi and Katherine talk about a complacent boss on this week’s episode of the My Crazy Office podcast. First we give advice to an employee whose laid-back manager’s behavior is hurting the team’s morale and productivity. Then we address managers who have become complacent and consider what their motives might be. Read more » advice behavior boss career career advice complacency complacent leadership management managing down managing up Morale motivation my crazy office podcast productivity
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