Skip to content

Workplace Coach Blog

Navigating Workplace & Life Challenges; Coaching & Inspiration

Primary Navigation

  • Home
  • Article Topics
    • Accountability
    • Bullying
    • Business
    • Career
    • Coaching
    • Conflict & communications
    • COVID-19
    • Discipline
    • Dr. Lynne Curry
    • HR/Human Resources & Operations
    • Leadership
    • Legal aspects of management
    • Management/supervision
    • National events & politics
    • Office politics
    • Personal growth
    • Professional growth
    • Remote work/Virtual
    • Team
    • Writing
  • Ask a Coach
  • Subscribe
  • Your Coach: Lynne Curry PhD
  • Visit my author website
  • Visit my business website
  • Media

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 15.7K other subscribers
Lynne Curry logo

Visit My Author Website

Recent Posts

  • Choosing Yourself: When it’s time to take a breather
  • My Boss Made Me the Oddest Offer
  • Last Man Standing
  • Is It Time You Rose To The Challenge?
  • Would LOVE to know what you think: I’ve taken a risk
  • My Promotion Vanished
  • How to Turn Down a Job Offer—and should you? 6 questions to ask.
  • Should I Accept a Promotion Without a Raise? : Is My Employer Kidding By Expecting Me to Say “Yes”?
  • A hotbed of conflict: the breakroom sagas & a surprise ending
  • We Do the Same Job; He Gets Paid a LOT More
  • Employees Forced to Return to the Office Quit–In Droves
  • Fired for Not Smiling–This is Not a Joke
  • Still Fighting With My Employer—Can You Help?
  • Workday Dead Zone & The Triple Peak Workday
  • Rage Applying: An Act of Revenge Against A Problem Employer
  • Left Behind: Everyone else is light years ahead of me
  • The Ex-employee Bandit
  • Low Morale? Employees Lost Heart & Disengaged? Here’s How to Fix That with Team Building That Goes Beyond Rah-Rah to Real.
  • Are Employers Not Hiring Anymore & Does Being Unemployed Hurt Your Chances of Finding a Job?
  • Work Junky? Unable to Disconnect on Vacation?
  • Need Your Help: Which Photo Is Best for My Newspaper Column?
  • The Semi-retirement Option
  • Political Discussions in the Workplace: Strategies for Handling What’s Coming
  • Special Free Access to the Managing for Accountability App
  • Smarter Than My Boss: I Threaten Her
  • Delivering Bad News to Those Who Deserve It
  • Noncompete Agreements: I signed one; can I break it?
  • The Dreaded Workplace Birthday “Celebration”
  • When Leaders & Managers Don’t Believe They Need to Change Their Ways—How You Can Get Through to Them
  • Recovering from Quiet Quitting: Don’t let your career dreams die

Article Topics

  • Accountability
  • Bullying
  • Business
  • Career
  • Coaching
  • Conflict & communications
  • COVID-19
  • Discipline
  • Dr. Lynne Curry
  • Drug & alcohol additction
  • HR/Human Resources & Operations
  • Leadership
  • Legal aspects of management
  • Management/supervision
  • National events & politics
  • Office politics
  • Personal growth
  • Professional growth
  • Remote work/Virtual
  • Rick Birdsall, J.D., B.A.
  • Team
  • Uncategorized
  • Writing

Recent Comments

Lynne Curry on Choosing Yourself: When it…
Dee on Choosing Yourself: When it…
Lynne Curry on Choosing Yourself: When it…
Dan Tucker on Choosing Yourself: When it…
Dee on My Boss Made Me the Oddest Off…
Lynne Curry on My Boss Made Me the Oddest Off…
Susan Dingle on My Boss Made Me the Oddest Off…
Susan Dingle on Last Man Standing
Last Man Standing |… on Should I Accept a Promotion Wi…
Susan Dingle on Is It Time You Rose To The Cha…
Susan Dingle on Is It Time You Rose To The Cha…
Lynne Curry on Is It Time You Rose To The Cha…
Dee on Is It Time You Rose To The Cha…
Lynne Curry on My Promotion Vanished
Lynne Curry on How to Turn Down a Job Offer—a…

Your Blog Options

  • Home
  • Article Topics
    • Accountability
    • Bullying
    • Business
    • Career
    • Coaching
    • Conflict & communications
    • COVID-19
    • Discipline
    • Dr. Lynne Curry
    • HR/Human Resources & Operations
    • Leadership
    • Legal aspects of management
    • Management/supervision
    • National events & politics
    • Office politics
    • Personal growth
    • Professional growth
    • Remote work/Virtual
    • Team
    • Writing
  • Ask a Coach
  • Subscribe
  • Your Coach: Lynne Curry PhD
  • Visit my author website
  • Visit my business website
  • Media

Tag: #advice

Choosing Yourself: When it’s time to take a breather
Career, Coaching, Personal growth, Professional growth

Choosing Yourself: When it’s time to take a breather

Question: I started working when I was twelve. I swept the floors and wiped down the shelves for a gas … Continue reading Choosing Yourself: When it’s time to take a breather

How to Turn Down a Job Offer—and should you? 6 questions to ask.
Career, Coaching, Professional growth

How to Turn Down a Job Offer—and should you? 6 questions to ask.

Question:  I had high hopes when I started my job search in February. Despite what I’d heard about the job … Continue reading How to Turn Down a Job Offer—and should you? 6 questions to ask.

Should I Accept a Promotion Without a Raise? : Is My Employer Kidding By Expecting Me to Say “Yes”?
Career, Coaching, Professional growth

Should I Accept a Promotion Without a Raise? : Is My Employer Kidding By Expecting Me to Say “Yes”?

Question: An email with the subject line “good news” arrived in my inbox from my supervisor this morning. The good … Continue reading Should I Accept a Promotion Without a Raise? : Is My Employer Kidding By Expecting Me to Say “Yes”?

Rage Applying: An Act of Revenge Against A Problem Employer
Career, Coaching, Conflict & communications, Professional growth

Rage Applying: An Act of Revenge Against A Problem Employer

 You’ve had the worst day—worst week—worst month—at work. You’re overloaded, micro-managed by a boss you can’t stand and underpaid.          … Continue reading Rage Applying: An Act of Revenge Against A Problem Employer

High-horse Manager Critiques Me for Being Twice-divorced
Career, Coaching, Conflict & communications, Professional growth

High-horse Manager Critiques Me for Being Twice-divorced

Question: I loved my job until seven months ago. That’s when our former chief executive officer retired, and our board … Continue reading High-horse Manager Critiques Me for Being Twice-divorced

Toxic Boss: 5 Proven Strategies for Surviving the Negative, Controlling, Toxic Boss
Career, Coaching, Conflict & communications, Office politics, Personal growth, Professional growth

Toxic Boss: 5 Proven Strategies for Surviving the Negative, Controlling, Toxic Boss

Question: My boss is negative, controlling, and judgmental. He criticizes everything I do, which makes working for him feel like … Continue reading Toxic Boss: 5 Proven Strategies for Surviving the Negative, Controlling, Toxic Boss

Workplace Quicksand: The Drama Triangle: a quick 6-minute video that explains how to escape this quicksand
Coaching, Conflict & communications, Dr. Lynne Curry, Office politics, Personal growth, Professional growth

Workplace Quicksand: The Drama Triangle: a quick 6-minute video that explains how to escape this quicksand

It’s quicksand and seductive: the drama triangle explains many workplace challenges and hooks most people. Even if you haven’t heard … Continue reading Workplace Quicksand: The Drama Triangle: a quick 6-minute video that explains how to escape this quicksand

Teflon Yourself to Criticism: you can learn this powerful, valuable tactic in less than 2 minutes
Coaching, Conflict & communications, Office politics, Personal growth, Professional growth

Teflon Yourself to Criticism: you can learn this powerful, valuable tactic in less than 2 minutes

Navigating Conflict, https://amzn.to/3rCKoWj (recently published but already 13 five-star reviews) Continue reading Teflon Yourself to Criticism: you can learn this powerful, valuable tactic in less than 2 minutes

The Blame Caster—when explaining is code for avoiding looking at the part you played in what happened
Accountability, Career, Coaching, Personal growth, Professional growth

The Blame Caster—when explaining is code for avoiding looking at the part you played in what happened

Question: I quit a job today. Here’s what happened and what I need to know. I started this job four … Continue reading The Blame Caster—when explaining is code for avoiding looking at the part you played in what happened

Disinvited: the only one not invited to the party
Conflict & communications, Office politics, Personal growth, Professional growth

Disinvited: the only one not invited to the party

Question: (This question came in through the “Ask a Coach” section of this blog.) My husband works for a state … Continue reading Disinvited: the only one not invited to the party

Posts navigation

Older posts
Powered by WordPress.com.