Have you read the book “He’s Just Not That Into You?” While the now famous book-turned-movie deals with showing women all the signs of indifference from the men they’re trying to date, the same principles can be applied to platonic boss-employee relationships as well.

Has your boss stopped calling? Stopped introducing you to new clients? Has it been years since the last pay raise or promotion? Falling out of favor with your boss — especially when you think everything is fine regarding your working relationship — is a tough blow to the ego. In fact, sometimes it stings so much that employees take shelter in denial and pretend everything is hunky-dory. But unless you feel like wasting years working for someone who doesn’t like you and won’t advance your career, you need to snap out of it and take some action.

Here are some signs you and your boss are in a doomed working relationship, and what you can do about it. Continue Reading

While discrimination in the workplace is illegal, employers may still make decisions based upon details of an employee’s life.

Does it make sense to promote someone with kids or a chronic illness when another employee is free of those obligations or difficulties? By revealing some private information to your boss, you could set yourself back when it comes to a raise or promotion. To maximize your success in the work place, you may wish to keep the following details about yourself private. Continue Reading

Administrative assistants (aka executive assistants, or secretaries if you’re stuck in the Mad Men days) are essential for any successful business to run properly. They epitomize the phrase “in the trenches” because they’re the ones getting their hands dirty by doing all the things that need to be done that no one else can do quickly and efficiently. All the creative planning and brainstorming is great, but it’s the administrative professionals who turn pie-in-the-sky pipe dreams into reality.

But because they’re so reliable and always there, it’s easy to take them for granted. Case in point, if you’re a manager and completely unaware this week is Administrative Professionals Week, you likely fall into the aforementioned category. But even though you should be giving your assistant a gift this week, we thought we’d turn the tables and do something different. Continue Reading