Tag: culture

  • When Your Boss Just Won’t Listen

    t is very frustrating when you talk to your boss and he or she won’t listen. Your repeated attempts at getting your thoughts across fall on deaf ears and you don’t feel respected or valued. If this is a problem you face at work, then you might need to change your approach to communicating…

  • 10 Traits of Managers Whose Teams Are Happy to Come to Work

    A dictatorial manager who lacks empathy or insight may produce but high turnover will cause them to ultimately fail. Excellent managers do their best to make 80 percent of the job rewarding, with a 20 percent balance of healthy stress…

  • Do You Work For A Bully – Or Just A Tough Boss?

    Published on June 26, 2017 Carol Kinsey Goman, Ph.D. FollowCarol Kinsey Goman, Ph.D. International keynote speaker on leadership, collaboration, and the impact of body language in the workplace. I met Brenda when she managed a 2,000-person department for a Fortune 500 company. Brought in to help her with an upcoming change initiative, I was impressed by…

  • No — I Won’t Provide My References Before The Interview

     JUN 27, 2017 @ 06:27 PM Liz Ryan ,   CONTRIBUTOR  Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Dear Liz, I got a call from a headhunter last week. We can call the headhunter Susan. She sent me a job spec that sounded pretty good. I’m ready to leave my current job, so I sent Susan…

  • Why Some People Burn Out At Work And Others Don’t

    What exactly leads someone to “burn out” in her job?  And what causes someone else to weather some work storms but still be happy where she is?