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Something You Should Know about Coworkers

How Do Other People Perceive You?

December 25, 2009

 

Interview with Mike Cook, author of the book Thrive: Standing on Your Own Two Feet in a Borderless World

 

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Mike Carruthers:
You can't really get ahead in life or in your career without the help of other people, so how other people perceive you is very important.

 

Mike Cook:
And can you honestly say that when you encounter people at work, that when you're complete with an interaction with them that they're looking forward to the next time that they get to see you.
Mike Cook

 

Pitfalls Of The Office Christmas Party

December 15, 2009

 

Interview with Barbara Pachter, author of the book New Rules @ Work: 79 Etiquette Tips, Tools, and Techniques to Get Ahead and Stay Ahead

 

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Mike Carruthers:
If your employer is having a Christmas party you really should plan on going.

 

Barbara Pachter:
It is important that you attend the party and that you mingle with people there. A holiday party is still a business event and your absence will be noticed.

 
Barbara Pachter 

Business etiquette expert Barbara Pachter, author of the book New Rules @ Work, says how you dress at a Christmas party is also very important.

Women & Men In Business

December 9, 2009

 

Interview with Michael Johnson, author of the book Cracking The Boy's Club Code: The Woman's Guide to Being Heard and Valued in the Workplace

 

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Mike Carruthers:
In the workplace men and women have very different rules.

 

Michael Johnson:
And the men’s rules are, "I win, you lose, next game" - and we like that. It’s a game of competition.
 
Michael Johnson

Michael Johnson, author of the book Cracking The Boy's Club Code Workplace…

 

What Makes A Good Partnership?

November 9, 2009

 

Interview with Rodd Wagner, co-author of the book Power of 2: How to Make the Most of Your Partnerships at Work and in Life

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Partnerships - we all have them at work, at home and with friends.

 

Rodd Wagner:
Most people are not very deliberate about their partnerships. When you ask them whether they’ve had good partnerships or bad partnerships they will tend to say they’ve had a lot more bad partnerships than good ones.
 

Rodd Wagner

The Cost Of Chaos In The Workplace

 October 19, 2009

Interview with Len Merson, CEO of Chaos Over, Inc.

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Disorganization in the workplace comes at a very high cost.

 

Len Merson:
There are studies that have been done over the last 15 years in the area of information management, all these studies have been independent of each other, but they happened to ask one question in common. The question that was asked was, “How much time does an employee spend per day looking for information they can’t locate?”
 
Len Merson

 

The Magic Of Listening

September 28, 2009
Interview with Mark Goulston author of Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Listening may be one of the best and underutilized ways to really connect with someone.

 

Mark Goulston:
I think a key prerequisite though is you actually have to care about other people as opposed to just try to maneuver them to do a deal.
Mark Goulston

 

Why Do You Hate Your Job?

January 13, 2009
Interview with Charlotte Shelton, author of Quantum Leaps: Seven Skills for Workplace ReCreation

 

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Mike Carruthers:
It's no secret that a lot of people are unhappy with their job, however…

 

Charlotte Shelton:
We have 1 in 4 people equating the workplace with a prison and being very frustrated because they can't change the prison that they feel caught in.

 

 

     

 

Harm Done By Negative People At Work

 

July 24, 2009

Interview with Tim O'Leary author of Warriors, Workers, Whiners, & Weasels
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Mike Carruthers:
Every business or organization has negative people in it and they're usually pretty good at spreading their negativity.

 

Tim O'Leary:
And in a few months - take an otherwise pretty terrific company where people were pretty happy and convince people that's it's a terrible place; that it's not doing well.

Tim O'Leary

 

What Kills Employee Passion?

 September 3, 2009

Interview with Omar Kahn, author of Liberating Passion: How the World's Best Global Leaders Produce Winning Results  

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Passion in the workplace - a lot is written about that subject as if it was a rare commodity and yet…

 

Omar Kahn:
When people are hired they're pretty passionate - it's part of what gets them hired. And then companies would say to me, "Give them a few months with us we'll suck the passion right out of them." 
Omar Kahn

 

Giving Employees Feedback Doesn't Work

May 25, 2009

Interview with Charles S. Jacobs, author of Management Rewired: Why Feedback Doesn't Work and Other Surprising Lessons from the Latest Brain Science
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Mike Carruthers:
The job of any good manager is to give employees feedback on their job performance.

 

Charles S. Jacobs:
But forty years ago there was a study done at General Electric that looked at a performance appraisal process that they were using at that point. And what they found was that positive feedback had no effect one way or the other on performance.
 
Charles Jacobs

 

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