Kathi Elster and Katherine Crowley give advice to a team leader whose client is verbally abusive, takes credit for the team's successes and throws them under the bus when mistakes are made.
Working with a Toxic Client -- www.AskK2.com from K Squared on Vimeo.
Katherine Crowley, a Harvard trained psychotherapist, and Kathi Elster, a management consultant and executive coach, create the yin and yang of their company, K Squared Enterprises. Bestselling authors, educators, public speakers, executive coaches, and veteran consultants, Kathi and Katherine are seasoned guides in the area of professional fulfillment through self-awareness and self-management. Together they have written Working For You Isn't Working For Me, The Ultimate Guide To Managing Your Boss and the national bestseller, Working with You Is Killing Me: Freeing Yourself from Emotional Traps at Work.
Posted by Candice Arnold on March 18, 2010 at 6:57 AM | Leave a Comment (0)
The following guest post from Rivka Kawano, president of Life Train, LLC, might be helpful for those who feel they need a video resume to increase their chances of finding the entry level jobs they most desire.
For some professions a video resume is not only helpful, it is almost necessary. If you are a model, actor, videographer, or in another field where you will be on camera or creating material to be on camera, then it is very helpful - as long as it is professionally done. In addition, if you are a high level executive or sales person where your physical presence may be an important part of your job, then it may be okay to create a video resume.
Continue reading "Is a Video Resume Right for You?"
Posted by Candice Arnold on March 12, 2010 at 11:29 AM | Leave a Comment (0)
Kathi and Katherine tackle the issue of how someone can go from being a "background person" and start playing a leading role on the job.
Overcoming Invisibility -- www.AskK2.com from K Squared on Vimeo.
Katherine Crowley, a Harvard trained psychotherapist, and Kathi Elster, a management consultant and executive coach, create the yin and yang of their company, K Squared Enterprises. Bestselling authors, educators, public speakers, executive coaches, and veteran consultants, Kathi and Katherine are seasoned guides in the area of professional fulfillment through self-awareness and self-management. Together they have written Working For You Isn't Working For Me, The Ultimate Guide To Managing Your Boss and the national bestseller, Working with You Is Killing Me: Freeing Yourself from Emotional Traps at Work.
Posted by Candice Arnold on March 10, 2010 at 8:37 AM | Leave a Comment (0)
I've been passed over for promotion at my company five times now and when I complained about it to one of my former coworkers - one of the people who got promoted ahead of me - he said it's because I'm "too nice," and that upper management thinks I don't "have what it takes to make tough decisions." Does that mean I have to start being a jerk in order to move my career forward in this company? Please tell me there's a better way.
Posted by Candice Arnold on March 9, 2010 at 8:57 AM | Leave a Comment (2)
Our new boss has a very thick foreign accent so it's difficult to understand him. No one in the office speaks his language and he refuses to use an interpreter. Instead he puts everything into email messages and sends them out to all of us. That's great until we have a question and can't understand the answer. How can we work this out to everyone's benefit?
Posted by Candice Arnold on March 9, 2010 at 8:51 AM | Leave a Comment (2)
My boss has been giving me increasingly complex tasks lately with minimal training or explanation. When I ask questions, she gets annoyed and rolls her eyes and says things like, "Oh, God, this project's never gonna get done." I told her once that things would get done a lot faster if she taught me how to do them at the beginning, but she just looked at me and asked if I was "getting smart" with her. The woman in the cube next to mine said the reason my boss isn't training me is because she doesn't know how to do it herself, and that's why she gets upset and has to run off to "look this up" whenever I ask for help. Really? I love being challenged and couldn't care less if my boss is dumping work on me that she can't do herself, but I hate her attitude. What can I do to change this situation for the better?
Posted by Candice Arnold on March 9, 2010 at 8:40 AM | Leave a Comment (2)
When I interviewed with a recruiter recently, he looked at my resume and told me I should focus more on my experience because online bachelor's degrees get very little respect in the corporate world. Is that true, even for accredited schools like the one I attended?
Posted by Candice Arnold on March 9, 2010 at 8:36 AM | Leave a Comment (2)
