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Smoking Gun: can I ignore it? - Workplace Coach Blog
If you investigate anonymous rumors you unload a smoking gun
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Documentation That Makes the Case The Employee Deserved to be Fired - Workplace Coach Blog
As an expert witness (qualified in Court in management best practices, HR, and workplace issues), I’m often handed documentation by …
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What Do You Mean You Gave My Job Away? - Workplace Coach Blog
When an employer gives away an employee's job after her daughter dies
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Conducting a Virtual Investigation: the landmines to avoid - Workplace Coach Blog
Conducting a virtual workplace investigation: what you need to know & landmines to watch for
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An Applicant’s Bad Date (or Worse) Behavior Torpedoes His Job Offer - Workplace Coach Blog
Withdrawing a job offer if a current employee tells you an applicant date-raped her
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Performance Reviews: Dread Them? Ditch Them? Replace Them? - Workplace Coach Blog
Performance reviews; why don't they work and what's a GREAT alternative?
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How HR Shoots Itself in the Foot - Workplace Coach Blog
HR can help employees and organizations; except when it doesn't; here's how to turn that around
Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help
Framed by a Vengeful Coworker - Workplace Coach Blog
When you've been framed by a coworker who put the moves on & you said "no"
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Zero-tolerance: Can You Afford It? - Workplace Coach Blog
Zero-tolerance policies in employee handbooks--the benefits, the risks.
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Employees Stage a Thanksgiving Rebellion - Workplace Coach Blog
Employer policies & holiday celebrations
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Supervisor Confessed His Romantic Feelings for Me - Workplace Coach Blog
Supervisor stepped over the line when he confessed his romantic feelings
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Can We Use a Contact Tracing App to Protect Our Business & Employees? - Workplace Coach Blog
Using a contact tracing app; what you need to know as an employer or employee
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We Suspect Drug Addiction in a Top Producer - Workplace Coach Blog
Handing a senior manager who may be a drug addict
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Save Your Career From a Vindictive Manager's Targeting: Here's How - Workplace Coach Blog
Handling a bully manager without losing your job or reputation
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My Manager Wants Me to Compromise My Ethics - Workplace Coach Blog
When your manager wants you to do the wrong thing, how do you keep your job?
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Employee Political Dispute Escalates to Danger Level - Workplace Coach Blog
Political discussion in the workplace; employee rights & employer duty
Psychology | Psychology
PTSD and Bullying - Workplace Coach Blog
Bullying creates PTSD & employers need to accomodate employee victims
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Can't Stand 2 More Weeks of This Supervisor - Workplace Coach Blog
How to get a great new job, when you suddenly quit.
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I Was Laid Off; Now That My Employer is Hiring Do I Get My Job Back? - Workplace Coach Blog
Question: My employer laid me off due to COVID-19 in April. The job scene is a disaster. I get up …
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I've Been Told Never To Fire An Employee On A Friday; But I Really, Really Want to - Workplace Coach Blog
Question: I’ve been told to never to fire an employee on Friday, but I really don’t want this employee back …
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A Performance Improvement Plan Means Your Manager Plans to Fire You, Right? - Workplace Coach Blog
Question: I’m been ordered to call you. Nothing personal against you, but I’m not having any. For the last year, …
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When Politics Sours Workplace Friendships - Workplace Coach Blog
Question: I’ve had lunch daily with the same three co-workers for almost four years. We share everything and have stayed …
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Stopping a Bully Senior Manager Without Risking Your Job - Workplace Coach Blog
Question: I face a situation that has no easy answer and no good solution. As the newly hired human resources …
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Are Post-Accident Painkillers Causing a Star Employee to Make Errors? - Workplace Coach Blog
Question: One of my top employees, “Mary,” was rear-ended at a stop light three months ago and suffered from whiplash …
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I Don't Want to Wear a Face Mask; Can My Employer Make Me? - Workplace Coach Blog
Question: My employer’s “back to the office” email informs us we’re required to wear face masks anytime we’re not at …
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Drama Queens & Kings: Office Politics on Steroids - Workplace Coach Blog
I work with two drama queens. “Arielle” is always sure I or others are out to get her and make …
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Employees & Their Families Sue Employers Over COVID-19 Exposure - Workplace Coach Blog
Question: My partner and I have owned and operated our business for twenty-three years. When the pandemic first hit, we …
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Employees Push Back Against Returning to Work, Choosing Unemployment - Workplace Coach Blog
Question: We didn’t expect the pushback we got from two of our furloughed employees when we called them back to …
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Employees Could Take A Company Down During COVID - Workplace Coach Blog
Question: Our small business is hanging on by a shoestring. Three of our employees attended a fourth of July barbecue. None of them wore masks. Another barbeque guest was COVID-infected. One after another each of our employees became become ill, forcing m
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6 ?s to Answer Before Returning Your Workplace to a "New Normal" - Workplace Coach Blog
You’ve been operating your company with a skeleton crew. In less than ten days, you plan to resume “new-normal” operations. Before you welcome your furloughed employees back to the workplace, make sure you can answer these six questions. Can you imp
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Cyberbullying & And The Return Takedown - Workplace Coach Blog
Question: Several months ago, a new employee in my wife’s workplace downloaded a free Amazon.com app called Burn Book. After that, more and more of her coworkers downloaded the app and joined a Burn Book twitter account. They started posting nasty ran
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Can My Employer Fire Me For Going to a Bar or Do I Have Any Freedom Left? - Workplace Coach Blog
Question: My employer sent a two-part email to every employee last week. “As you know we’ve had a local spike in COVID-19 infections. The health department has provided a list of the establishments, primarily bars, where COVID-19 individuals spent ext
Psychology | Psychology
Fatal Attraction: Possession Becomes Obsession - Workplace Coach Blog
She seemed like any other employee, but she wasn’t. She was an employer’s worst nightmare. Within a three months period, four employers called me reporting run-ins with “fatal attraction” employees. In each case, the store plays out like a televis
Psychology | Psychology
The Workplace Ted Bundy: stopping a serial killer - Workplace Coach Blog
You’ve met him–the workplace Ted Bundy. Initially he’s charming, both to men and women, and especially in the presence of the boss. He’s friendly and confiding. He extends himself on your behalf—out of all proportion to anything you’d expe
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Employee Fakes COVID To Get 2 Weeks Off - Workplace Coach Blog
When your employee or coworker calls to let you know he tested positive for COVID, you respond immediately with sympathy and worry, and then spring into action and offer what help you can. If you are his employer, you tell your employee to take care of hi
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COVID-19: How to Create a New Normal | Workplace Coach Blog
Join Dr. Lynne Curry as she helps explain how to create a new normal in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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How to Make Layoffs with Heart: Three Questions | Workplace Coach Blog
Join Dr. Lynne Curry as she helps three different people understand how to make layoffs with heart.
