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If You’re a Supervisor Writing Documentation, Watch What You Write—It Can Bite You - Workplace Coach Blog

If you're a manager writing documentation, watch what you write

Writing documentation notes: guidelines & traps.

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The #1 Mistake Managers Make When Disciplining Employees - Workplace Coach Blog

The most effective way to start a disciplinary meeting; IMPACT, make the employee care

The # 1 mistake managers make when disciplining employees.

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Fired Because I Won't Get Vaccinated - Workplace Coach Blog

firing unvaccinated employees: an employer's right

Vaccination rules. What companies are going. Rights of employers.

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That Glowing Reference? It's Fake. - Workplace Coach Blog

Fake resumes & fake references; the reality & the consequences

Inflated resume accomplishments; fake references, how common it is and how to figure it out.

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Sneak Preview (free): Here's Managing for Accountability: A Business Leader's Toolbox: Chapter 1 - Workplace Coach Blog

Please let me know what you think.

Managing for Accountability: A business leader's toolbox: sneak preview (free) of chapter 1: tools, tips & strategies

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We Suspect Our Employees Provided Us Fake Vaccination Cards - Workplace Coach Blog

Suspect you've received a fake vaccine card? How to tell & what to do.

Fake vaccine cards, how to detect them, the prevalence of the black market scam, the consequences, what to do next

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Smoking Gun: can I ignore it? - Workplace Coach Blog

If you investigate anonymous rumors you unload a smoking gun

Smoking gun: when can you ignore an anonymous rumor & when can you not afford to do so?

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Time for a Game Change - Workplace Coach Blog

Game-changer: accountability: tools, tactics, and strategies

Time for a game change in your employees? In your business?

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Can I Be Fired for Admitting to My Boss I’m on the Job Market? - Workplace Coach Blog

Can I be fired for job hunting?

When your employee is jobhunting but hides it.

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Are We Making a Mistake to Require Employee Vaccinations? - Workplace Coach Blog

Can employers require employees to get vaccinated?

Employers that mandate vaccinations, the challenges, the solutions.

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What 5 attorneys, 21 business leaders, 6 HR professionals, 13 non-profit organization leaders and 4 authors say about Managing for Accountability - Workplace Coach Blog

Accountability in the workplace: a toolbox for managers, leaders and professionals

What business leaders, attorneys, HR professionals, and other leaders say about Managing for Accountability

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Delta Variant: What Employers/Employees Need to Do Today - Workplace Coach Blog

You’ve heard. Now you need to act. If you had hoped the pandemic had faded away, you need to buckle …

The Delta variant: what do employers/businesses need to do NOW; what are business leaders doing

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Documentation That Makes the Case The Employee Deserved to be Fired - Workplace Coach Blog

As an expert witness (qualified in Court in management best practices, HR, and workplace issues), I’m often handed documentation by …

Writing solid documentation that makes the case for the actions you need to take as a supervisor.

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What Do You Mean You Gave My Job Away? - Workplace Coach Blog

When an employer gives away an employee's job after her daughter dies

An important aspect of FMLA leave that some employers misunderstand.

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Can Employers Ask Me If I'm Vaccinated? Can Employers Decide Who to Hire Based on Vaccination Status? - Workplace Coach Blog

Can employers ask employee if they're vaccinated? Can they made employment decisions based on vaccination status?

The newest Department of Justice & EEOC rulings: can employers make decisions based on vaccinations.

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Delta Variant Fears Further Split the Workplace - Workplace Coach Blog

Delta variant feears create workplace tensions; employees need to intervene

Delta variant splits the workplace, what employers/employees need to know.

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What you can do today & every day. - Workplace Coach Blog

Accountability is a choice for us and our leaders

Accountability, leadership, what you can do every day & how you can get employees accountable.

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The Difference Accountability Makes - Workplace Coach Blog

Accountability and what it takes

The difference accountability makes--for you, in your employees

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Netflix Fired 3 Executives for Slack Chat: More to the Story - Workplace Coach Blog

Netflix Fired 3 Executives for Slack Chat: Right? Wrong?

Netflix fired 3 executives for chat on Slack.

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You Love Being Your Own Boss: Tips for Finding Higher Quality, Better Paying Freelance Work - Workplace Coach Blog

Freelance success: tips for finding higher quality, better paying work

Freelance success, finding high-quality, better paying projects: strategies that work

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CELEBRATE!: Managing for Accountability - Workplace Coach Blog

Leadership + managing for Accountability: the tools you need in one fast read

Managing for Accountability: A Business Leader's Toolbox: all the tools you need in one fast read

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Guns In Cars in the Parking Lot - Workplace Coach Blog

Can employers ban employees from having guns in their personal cars at work?

Employees w/ guns in their vehicles in the employer's parking lot, employer options

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Surfside Condo Disaster Reminds Us: When You Serve on a Board, You Hold Lives and Livelihoods In Your Hands - Workplace Coach Blog

Surfside Condo disaster reminds us when you serve on a board of directors, you hold people's lives in your hands

Surfside condo disaster, painful truth for board of directors and condo association members

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I Fired Her Because She's Slow, But Now She's Sued. Can She Win? - Workplace Coach Blog

Can an employee who works slowly and has bad habits win a wrongful termination lawsuit?

Wrongful termination lawsuit; she's sued based on obesity, can she win?

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They've Tasted Freedom & Betrayal: the pandemic changed employees; can employers adapt? - Workplace Coach Blog

The pandemic changed employees; can managers adapt?

The employees who returned to the worksite after the pandemic aren't the same employees who left--what do managers need to do differently?

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Managing for Accountability: A Business Leader's Toolbox: pre-order price is $7 less than after 8/4/21 - Workplace Coach Blog

leadership: Managing for Accountability: a toolbox

Managing for Accountability: tools, strategies, solutions

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Performance Reviews: Dread Them? Ditch Them?Replace Them? - Workplace Coach Blog

performance reviews: dread them? ditch them? replace them? Here's what you need to know.

Performance Reviews: Dread them? Ditch them? Replace them? PR weaknesses & how to fix them.

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My Employer Drew a Line in the Sand Against Remote Work - Workplace Coach Blog

Employee options when an employer insists on a return to the company worksite

Why employers want employees back in the office; how to reach a middle ground.

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Who Misrepresented What? The Potential Cost of Leaving an Awful New Job - Workplace Coach Blog

Did the employee or the employer misrepresent? The cost of leaving an awful new job.

The power of a payback agreement

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Bullying and real and/or perceived retaliation compromises a community's vision - Workplace Coach Blog

workplace bullying and real &/or perceived retaliation compromises health care and a community's vision

A real life story, now page A-3 of the newspaper.

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You Can Sue for Anything. Even When You're in the Wrong. - Workplace Coach Blog

Ex-employee sues her employer for firing her for racism after she acts in a racist manner

Ex-employees can sue for anything, even when they're wrong. But can they win. https://bit.ly/3yTgfVh

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Is the Problem You? - Workplace Coach Blog

manager training: is the problem you? 4 fixes

Management truths

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No Love Lost: What Do Employers Need to Realize to Keep Employees Onboard? - Workplace Coach Blog

Employees are heading for the doors in droves. What do employers need to realize & what can they do?

How to stop your best employees from quitting.

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5 Steps for Addressing Workplace Bullying - Workplace Coach Blog

Workplace bullying costs. Here are 5 steps that effectively tackle workplace bullying.

5 effective steps for addressing workplace bullying & how it pays off

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How Not to Hire a Narcissist - Workplace Coach Blog

How not to hire a narcissist, Signs & signals. 5 key strategies.

How not to hire a narcissist, clues that narcissism exists, effective strategies for not hiring a narcissist

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The Competent Jerk: Managing a Top Performer Who Alienates His Coworkers - Workplace Coach Blog

Managing the competent jerk, getting him to change

How to manage the "competent jerk": a top performer who alienates his coworkers

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Finding Out Why Your Best Employees Are Quitting - Workplace Coach Blog

Finding out why your best employees are leaving: how to conduct a dynamite exit interview

Finding out why your best employees are leaving, how to make exit interviews pay off.

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Can My Employer Make Me Get Vaccinated - Workplace Coach Blog

mandatory vaccination in the workplace, is it legal? what are the downsides?

Can an employer require vaccinations? What do employers need to understand because taking that leap?

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Manipulative Employee Trapped Me - Workplace Coach Blog

When a manipulative employee traps you, act to get out of the trap

Manipulative employee believes he has you over a barrel, should you end it and how?

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Trouble Unleashed: How to Resolve Conflicts in a Virtual, Remote Work Environment - Workplace Coach Blog

Virtual, remote workplaces can be petri dishes for conflict. Here's how to prevent/resolve virtual workplace conflict.

8 fixes for conflict in a remote, virtual work environment

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Accountability, a game changer. Accountable employees do what they say they will, and more.

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Exciting Opportunity...How a Mental Health Organization Took the Ball and Ran - Workplace Coach Blog

Writing a stellar ad that attracts just the right applicant--and you can have free help too

When your company needs the very best A+ candidates -- including those not even considering your job postings.

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Bosses, Don't Let Yourself Be Tricked Into Firing the Wrong Employee - Workplace Coach Blog

Managerial decision-making when making firing decisions

When one employee sets up another, watch out

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5 Action Steps for Regaining Trust - Workplace Coach Blog

When employees or coworkers no longer trust you, they don’t tell you. Why would they? They don’t trust how you …

Your best employees leaving. Employee morale & productivity @ all time lows. 5 action steps to turn it around.

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No Love Lost: Employees Head for the Doors - Workplace Coach Blog

Employees leaving their jobs in record numbers--employers need to "get it" and act fast?

The tsunami of employees heading for the door; here's how to get ahead of the problem so you can retain your best employees.

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Attract & Hire Outstanding, Accountable Employees - Workplace Coach Blog

how to write ads that attract the best employees & 25% off coupon on Managing for Accountability

Fixing your job postings & ads to attract the most outstanding and accountable employees, plus a 25% off coupon on Managing for Accountability

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A Terrific Applicant; A Hard-to-fill Position and an Outstanding Warrant - Workplace Coach Blog

When your #1 candidate has a warrant for her arrest AND you REALLY want to hire her

Employer strategy when a perfect job candidate has an outstanding warrant against her.

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Combatting Employee Isolation with Virtual Team-building - Workplace Coach Blog

Combatting employee isolation and disengagement with virtual team-building: 4 great options

Virtual team-building: here's why & here's how -- 4 amazing options.

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A Major Change & Accountability - Workplace Coach Blog

A major change and accountability; your 25% off coupon & why I'm posting 4 not 5 times weekly

Employees that are all in, invested in your company; accountability is a choice, a decisions -- here's a roadmap to make that happen

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Resume Fraud: increasingly prevalent in today's virtual environment - Workplace Coach Blog

Resume fraud, increasingly common, and how you can protect yourself

Resume fraud. Increasingly prevalent. How employers can protect themselves.

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Vaccinated Employees Skirmish with Unvaccinated Coworkers - Workplace Coach Blog

Vaccinated v. nonvaccinated employees; what employers need to know

Vaccinated employees skirmish with unvaccinated employees -- over masks & distancing -- what the CDC now recommends & doesn't in terms of loosening safety protocols

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Top Producer "Cracked Up": What To Do Now: An Employer’s Ability to Address Employee Stress Is Key to Success in 2021 - Workplace Coach Blog

Employer duty in handling employee mental health

Employee stress, anxiety, depression, mental illness: an employer's potential solutions.

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Alcoholic Manager Slams into Another’s Car: Can His Employer Continue Ignoring the Situation? - Workplace Coach Blog

Alcoholism in the workplace: rumors, problems, solutions

Handling the alcoholic employee: solutions, risks, challenges.

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Drunken Manager Shut Down Our Zoom Call - Workplace Coach Blog

Drinking Shut Down Our Zoom Call Question: We had to shut down our all-hands Zoom meeting three weeks ago when …

On-the-job drinking radically increased during the pandemic; here's the reality & what yu can do

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Rule-breaking CEOs - Workplace Coach Blog

HR and CEO get into trouble when CEO doesn't follow company policy

When CEOs and principals violate their own policies, what happens? Especially if it's talking on a cell phone while driving?

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Conducting a Virtual Investigation: the landmines to avoid - Workplace Coach Blog

Conducting a virtual workplace investigation: what you need to know & landmines to watch for

Conducting virtual rather than in-person investigations. Can it be done? Landmines to avoid.

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Mandatory COVID Vaccination: New Guidance & Update - Workplace Coach Blog

mandatory COVID vaccination: new guidance & update for employers & employees

New guidance 2/8/21 for employers re: mandatory COVID vaccinations

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Managing Post-pandemic - Workplace Coach Blog

Managing post-pandemic, offer your employees location & schedule flexibility for their benefit and yours

Managing post-pandemic; giving employees flexibility/employer/business results & benefits; managing in 2021; remote workers.

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Performance Reviews: Dread Them? Ditch Them? Replace Them? - Workplace Coach Blog

Performance reviews; why don't they work and what's a GREAT alternative?

Performance Reviews: Dread Them, Ditch Them, Replace Them, what are your thoughts & what have you done to fix them, change them, use alternatives?

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If Your Employee Won't Admit the Truth, You Need To - Workplace Coach Blog

You know your employee tells little white lies; the ball's in your court, what do you do?

You've invested time & money in this employee, is it time to call it quits? Can you trust him?

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COVID Vaccination Update—in light of the vaccine’s “Emergency Use Authorization” status - Workplace Coach Blog

Will COVID vaccination be mandatory in light of the contradiction between EEOC and FDA guidance?

News employers/business owners need to have re: COVID vaccinations (& my 3rd post on this intricate topic).

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Many of Our Employees Refuse Vaccinations - Workplace Coach Blog

Should we make COVID vaccination mandatory? Many of our employees plan to refuse it.

What can/should you do when your employees refuse to get vaccinated? What are the legal pros/cons?

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Can a prospective employer ask for a W-2 as proof of salary history? - Workplace Coach Blog

If a prospective employer asks you for a W-2, is it legal? How do you handle the question?

As an employer can you ask for an employee's prior W-2 to verify salary & work history? What are the risks? If you're an employee, how do you handle the question/request?

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Want to be a Great Supervisor: Do a 180: Coach - Workplace Coach Blog

If you want to be a great supervisor, become a trusted coach who respects employees

Strategies that make good supervisors outstanding: coaching skills

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How HR Shoots Itself in the Foot - Workplace Coach Blog

HR can help employees and organizations; except when it doesn't; here's how to turn that around

Everything HR could and should do.

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Retention Strategies a "Must" During a COVID-19 - Workplace Coach Blog

Employee retention strategies are a must during COVID-19. Here are 5 specific tactics leaders need, along with specific information.

Retention during a pandemic or another crisis: here's how and why to do it.

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Prove You Respect Your Employees & Their Investment in Your Company - Workplace Coach Blog

Employee development boosts employee engagement, productivity, profits, morale, and retention--discover ten no-cost/low cost methods for providing employees development opportunities.

10 easy ways to give your employees professional development & reap the benefits yourself: loyalty, retention, productivity, succession planning, employee engagement

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Lead Us Through This Mess: COVID-19 Leadership Truths - Workplace Coach Blog

COVID-19 requires leadership to inspire, communicate transparently, provide crisis plans, create trust and team

Lead us through this mess, leadership truths for navigating the pandemic: trust, transparency, crisis planning, communication, team

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Your Employees Know the Truth; Ask Them - Workplace Coach Blog

You know your company has problems; conduct skip-level meetings to get to the truth.

A terrific way to learn the truth, build morale, inspire employees, fix problems not yet on your radar before they harm productivity or cost you employees.

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A Christmas/New Year’s Surprise - Workplace Coach Blog

What's a gift you can give your employees that costs 0 but matters hugely & produces amazing long-term benefits: impact & habit of gratitude and reognition

Give your employees a welcome Christmas/New Year's surprise, recognize who & what they are & what they do & say thanks! It costs nothing & you & they reap long-term benefits

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Flexibility: What Employees Want & Need for Christmas 2020 (Part 2) - Workplace Coach Blog

Employers & employees benefit from flexible work hours--it's a benefit that costs nothing but significantly increases employee satisfaction

Employee engagement & motivation; retention; an employer strategy that costs $0 & reap savings

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Mandatory COVID Vaccinations: The Rules - Workplace Coach Blog

Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccinations: Here are the rules employers need to follow

Mandatory COVID Vaccinations: what you need to know as an employer/employee/business owner

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What Employees Really Want for Christmas - Workplace Coach Blog

Employee engagement and productivity; what employees really need during COVID-19

Are you giving your employees what they want & need for engagement & productivity?

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When A Fired Employee Won't Move On, You Need To - Workplace Coach Blog

When a fired employee won't move on & continues to text your employees with lies, send her packing

Former employee haunts you after you fire her for cause

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COVID-19 & First Responders: Work Comp: Justice or Injustice? - Workplace Coach Blog

COVID first responders & workers compensation: justice needed

I wrote this for first responders, after a physician and a nurse emailed me, would love to hear your thoughts & comments.

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Suspect Telecommuting Employees of Passing Off Accidents as Covered Workers' Compensation Injuries - Workplace Coach Blog

Employer protection against fradulent workers' compensation claims by tele-commuting employees

Suspect telecommuting employees of passing off accidents as covered workers' compensation accidents

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Zero-tolerance: Can You Afford It? - Workplace Coach Blog

Zero-tolerance policies in employee handbooks--the benefits, the risks.

Zero tolerance policies for drug abuse, violence, guns; can you afford the risks or is there a better way?

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The Job Applicant Scammed You: You Let It Happen - Workplace Coach Blog

Reference checking job applicants so you won't make hiring mistakes

Finding the truth from job applicants; relying on reference letters & learning they're fakes; resume fraud.

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Suspect Our Employee of Lying to Get Extra Time Off; Can We Fire Him Without Proof? - Workplace Coach Blog

Your employee lies about COVID to get extra leave. Can you fire him or do you need proof?

Can you fire an employee you suspect of lying to you about a friend's COVID to secure extra vacation?

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Don’t write a positive reference for a problem employee; instead... - Workplace Coach Blog

Question: After an investigation, we fired one of our employees for threatening and stalking two co-workers. He now demands a …

He's violent to the level you're scared of him; he demands a better reference letter than you've written, what is your best way through?

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Employees Stage a Thanksgiving Rebellion - Workplace Coach Blog

Employer policies & holiday celebrations

Will COVID surge after Thanksgiving. What policies can managers set to protect the workplace.

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Can We Use a Contact Tracing App to Protect Our Business & Employees? - Workplace Coach Blog

Using a contact tracing app; what you need to know as an employer or employee

Employers struggling to protect their workplace consider contact tracing apps: what are the risks & the precautions?

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We Suspect Drug Addiction in a Top Producer - Workplace Coach Blog

Handing a senior manager who may be a drug addict

How can HR or an employer fix the problem if a top producer uses drugs?

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Getting the Truth From Job Applicants - Workplace Coach Blog

Question: Every job applicant I’ve interviewed in the last ten days claims to be a “team player” and “motivated by …

Interview questions that help managers select employees who handle challenge & are team-players

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Dueling Managers Clash; Everyone Else Is Caught in the Cross-fire - Workplace Coach Blog

Mediating clashing supervisors

Dueling supervisors clash & everyone lives with it, until one person decided enough is enough#

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We have two flawed managers, which one should we promote? - Workplace Coach Blog

You can't promote a flawed maanger unless you fix him/her

The problems w/ micromanagers & overly easy-going managers & a solid strategy for determining who to promote.