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Enticing Employees Back into the Office: 3 Strategic Employer Mistakes | Workplace Coach Blog

Return to the office: enticing employees back to the worksite: 3 strategic employer mistake that kill morale, productivity & retention

3 strategic mistakes employers can't afford to make if enticing employees back to their worksites.

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Why Leaders Fail: A Cautionary Tale | Workplace Coach Blog

Why newly promoted leaders fail: a cautionary tale: the reality and what failing leaders can do before they resign or find themselves fired

Why leaders fail: a cautionary tale

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Workplace Coach Blog

Navigating Workplace & Life Challenges; Coaching & Inspiration

Firing an alpha without getting caught in return fire.

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The Signs of Potential Disaster Were Present at Walmart—Are They Present at Your Workplace? | Workplace Coach Blog

Workplace violence signs were present before the murders at Walmart; are they present in your workplace: here are 6 warning signs

The signs of potential violence are present...often seen after the murder, here's what to look for to prevent disaster

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Guns in the Workplace | Workplace Coach Blog

Guns in the workplace, what you need to know...about your coworkers, your employer, and the reality you face

Guns in the workplace: the reality; what do employers & coworkers need to know

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Inflation’s Impact on Employees and the Workplace | Workplace Coach Blog

Inflation's impact on employees and the workplace: financial worries and other the stunning survey results

Inflation, recession & their impact on your employees -- what businesses and employers need to know so they can address what's happening

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Elon Musk’s Twitter Crises: 5 Key Take-aways for Employers | Workplace Coach Blog

Elon Musk's Twitter Crises: 5 Key Take-aways for Employers

Elon Musk's twitter crises: 5 key take-aways for employers, and the rest of us

Business & Finance | Business & Finance

Digital Presenteeism: Faking You Care, Faking You’re Even There | Workplace Coach Blog

Digital Presenteeism: Faking You Care; Faking You're Even There; the trend, the costs, what employers, managers and employees need to do

Digital Presenteeism: Remote Workers: Faking You Care; Faking You're Even There

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Tough Love—What if the manager needs it as well as the “star in his own mind” employee? | Workplace Coach Blog

tough love for an employee who's a star in his own mind and for a manager who's "had it"

A star employee needs to be reined in & tough love.

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Employee Uses FMLA to Cover Drinking | Workplace Coach Blog

Alcoholic employee claims FMLA leave after calling in sick 2 to 3 Mondays a month.

When you have an employee who's out every Monday and claims the need for FMLA, can you ask for regular doctor's notices or is that harassment?

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Surviving the Dreaded “You’re Fired” Interview | Workplace Coach Blog

How to terminate an employee: surviving the dreaded "you're fired" interview; how to prepare; what to do and say

Here's how to handle the "you're fired" interview in a way that leaves the employee with dignity & protects yourself as a manager/business owner/employer.

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Firing Without Backfiring, Avoiding the Revenge of the Difficult, Fired Employee | Workplace Coach Blog

Firing without backfiring: avoiding the revenge of the difficult, fired employee: just cause; good faith and 22 questions

How to fire effectively & in a way that minimizes risk. The 22 questions to ask yourself. How to use the guardrails of good faith and just cause.

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Workplace Coach Blog

Navigating Workplace & Life Challenges; Coaching & Inspiration

How to effectively fire an employee in a way that minimizes risk. 22 questions to ask yourself. How to utilize the guardrails of just cause & what the doctrine of good faith and fair dealing means to you.

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Signing Bonuses: A Wise Move? The advantages, disadvantages and how to make them work | Workplace Coach Blog

Signing bonuses: a wise move? Advantages, disadvantages & how to make them work --- and how to realize when an applicant has a better offer

Signing bonuses: an employer expense that can pay off IF they're done right. There are traps as well.

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Workplace Coach Blog

Navigating Workplace & Life Challenges; Coaching & Inspiration

Signing bonuses -- an employer expense that can pay off IF they're done right. There are traps, however.

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Workplace Coach Blog

Navigating Workplace & Life Challenges; Coaching & Inspiration

Do you need them to go back to the office?

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Workplace Coach Blog

Navigating Workplace & Life Challenges; Coaching & Inspiration

Employees that seem to ask to be fired, intent on gaining a financial or strategic benefit

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I Smell Danger and So Should Your Boss | Workplace Coach Blog

Sexual assault or a pattern of sexual harassment can turn tragic and needs to be immediately investigated

Sexual assault rumors? Or a pattern that spells d.a.n.g.e.r?

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Workplace Coach Blog

Navigating Workplace & Life Challenges; Coaching & Inspiration

Quiet Firing Meets Quiet Quitting: Employers launch a counter-offensive

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Workplace Coach Blog

Navigating Workplace & Life Challenges; Coaching & Inspiration

What an employer does right. Employee-driven flexibility instead of 1 size fits all.

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College…No Longer the Golden Ticket for Employers or Employees | Workplace Coach Blog

college...no long the golden ticket for employers or employees, what kind of job can you get without a degree

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Employers are Hiring and Laying Off at the Same Time | Workplace Coach Blog

50% of employers are planning layoffs, yet many are hiring at the same time; here's whose laying off employees

What employers are doing now; cutting payroll costs, while still seeking the right hires.

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Quiet Quitting: The New “Just Say No” Employee Pushback | Workplace Coach Blog

Gone are the days when most employers could count on employees competing to go “above and beyond” to rise faster …

Quiet quitting: why it's widespread & what employers can do

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Does Your Employer Have Long COVID; Check Out These Symptoms | Workplace Coach Blog

Does your employer have long COVID; check out these symptoms; and here's the treatment

Employers with long COVID; is your company one? Check it against these 3 symptoms & talk to the decision-makers abut the Rx.

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Are We Headed Into A Recession Or Not? The Answer May Surprise | Workplace Coach Blog

Are we headed into a recession or not? The answer may surprise...because the indicators don't mean what they once did.

Are we headed into a recession or not? The answer might surprise you.

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Laying Off Employees Who Don’t Expect It: consider the alternatives & don’t destroy morale | Workplace Coach Blog

Laying off employees who don't expect it: consider the alternatives; how to do it without destroying morale

Laying Off Employees Who Don't Expect It: How to Do It Well; What Alternatives You Have; How Not to Destroy Morale or Lose Productivity

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If You Want Your Business to Live, Consider This–And Get Your Father On Board | Workplace Coach Blog

Question I grew up working in our family’s business under my dad’s mentorship. I’ve learned a lot from him and …

If you want your business to succeed post-pandemic & through an ownership transition, here's how

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Post-pandemic Management: Employees Have Changed; Here’s What Employers Need to Figure Out | Workplace Coach Blog

post-pandemic workplace: employees have changed; here's what employees need to figure out & manager solutions

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Romance 2022: 3 Real-life potential hot messes | Workplace Coach Blog

Romance 2022: 3 real-life potential hot messages, the new workplace dynamics and the rules for employers and employees

Workplace Romance: 3 real-life potential hot messes & what actions to take

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Love Contracts: Help for Hot Messes | Workplace Coach Blog

Love contracts: help for hot messes & a tool to handle perceived or potential sexual harassment situations

Love contracts, a tool every business & organization needs given the upswing in office romance & perceived or real sexual harassment.

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A Crucial First Step Many Managers Forget To Take | Workplace Coach Blog

onboarding: a crucial first step many managers forget to take

A crucial 1st step managers can’t afford to miss if they want retention & accountability,

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Accountability in the Workplace: a 1 hour session on how to create a thriving accountability culture | Workplace Coach Blog

Law Office Manager & Medical Office Manager have teamed together to sponsor this fast-paced 1-hour manager/leader briefing. Here’s what the …

Accountability in the workplace: how to create/develop/sustain it

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Recruiting Gen Z Employees? Employers, Change Your Ways. | Workplace Coach Blog

Recruiting Gen Z Employees? Employers Change Your Ways; here's what you need to realize & the changes you'll want to make in your recruiting

What works when recruiting Gen Z. Strategies employers needs to know.

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Gen Z: Don’t Make Crucial Mistakes When Managing Them | Workplace Coach Blog

Gen Z: Managing Gen Z: What Works; What Doesn't

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Roe v. Wade in the Workplace | Workplace Coach Blog

Roe v. Wade in the Workplace, what to do when the discussion turns ugly

Roe v. Wade discussions in the workplace; an employer's choice for how to handle it

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CEO Tells the Truth About Why He Fired Two Senior Managers | Workplace Coach Blog

CEO tells the truth about what he learned about his company during the pandemic--that employees were the lifeblood

Company culture change & managers who can't/won't get on board

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We Just Fired Our CEO | Workplace Coach Blog

We just fired our CEO: five action steps; why CEO's become corrupt

CEOs...what makes a CEO a CEO? And What are their Achilles heels?

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Caregiver Wipeout: Caught in a Vise Between My Employer’s Expectations and My Family’s Needs | Workplace Coach Blog

Caregiver Wipeout: Caught in a Vise Between My Employer’s Expectations and My Family’s Needs: what the laws say

Caregiver discrimination: what employees and employers need to know.

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Betrayed by My Employer — How Can I Fight Back? | Workplace Coach Blog

Employer rolling back vaccine mandates. How you can fight back. The leverage you have.

Employee response when employers roll back vaccine mandates.

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Employer/Contractor Win/Win Turns into a Lose | Workplace Coach Blog

Making employees into independent contractors poses risks -- here's how to understand the regulations

Employees v. contractors, what business owners & managers need to know

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It Isn’t the Pay; It’s What You Won’t Fix | Workplace Coach Blog

it isn't the pay that costing you employees in the great resignation; it's what you won't deal with

What really drives the great resignation & how to fix it.

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Emoji Harassment | Workplace Coach Blog

Emoji harassment: what you didn't know; what it could mean to you

Emoji harassment: what managers don't know won't save them.

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Fallout Against Russian-born Employees | Workplace Coach Blog

Ukraine invasion fallout against Russian-born employees

Can you fire an employee for supporting Putin's invasion? Do you have an obligation to protect your employees of Russian heritage from harassment?

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Remote employee moonlighting: opportunity for employees; challenge for employers | Workplace Coach Blog

Remote employee moonlighting: opportunity for employees; challenge for employers

Remote employee moonlighting: opportunity for employees; challenge for employees

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Restoring Trust in the Workplace: What managers can do to restore mutual trust that lasts for the long haul | Workplace Coach Blog

Restoring trust in the workplace: what managers can do to return mutual trust that lasts for the long haul

restoring trust in the workplace: what managers can & should do

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Pay Attention to Internal Warning Signals & Red Flags | Workplace Coach Blog

New job landmines; pay attention to internal warning signals & red flags

As a manager, before you take a new position, ask key questions

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Fired For Using My Company’s Email During Non-Work Hours: Or Was There More to the Story? | Workplace Coach Blog

Fired for using my company's email during non-work hours, or was there more to the story?

Do employees have the right to use the company's email outside of working hours?

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Are Remote Employees Second-class Citizens? | Workplace Coach Blog

Remote work can hurt your career -- here's how to fix that

Are remote employees 2nd-class citizens; truths for employees & organizations

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Omicron and the Supervisor as Duct Tape | Workplace Coach Blog

Omicron hits the workplace and supervisors have to duct tape the workplace together

Omicron & the supervisor as duct tape; what you need to know to combat the stress

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U.S. Supreme Court Ruling on OSHA Vaccine-or-testing Rule: What employers need to know/do | Workplace Coach Blog

U.S. Supreme Court Ruling on OSHA vaccine mandate: what employers need to know and do now

Concise information on what the US Supreme Court ruling on OSHA vaccine-or-testing rule means to employers

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Winning the Talent War: What Employers Need to Understand | Workplace Coach Blog

winning the war for talent; solutions and strategies that enable employers to win

7 actionable strategies & solutions employers need

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Zoom and Doom CEO fires 900 Employees over Zoom . . . When Senior Managers Lie & What to Do ABout it | Workplace Coach Blog

Doom and Zoom CEO fires 900 employees in a 3 minute Zoom, what to do if you work for a senior manager who lies

Zoom & Doom CEO fires 900 employees over Zoom...when senior managers lie & what to do about it

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When Work Ethic Goes Too Far: An Important Story Hidden in the Mayfield Candle Factory Disaster | Workplace Coach Blog

workplace safety: an important story hidden in the mayfield candle factory disaster

Productivity or safety? When productivity demands and work ethic go too far: an important story hidden in the Mayfield candle factory disaster.

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Is Your Harassment Policy Out-of-date?: Does it protect your remote workers? Does it ban trolling, doxing, and dogpiling? | Workplace Coach Blog

Online harassment. Hate speech. Doxing. Trolling. Is your harassment policy out of date? Does it protect your employees and your company?

Online harassment & social media harassment. Employer obligation. What to expect.

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Religious Exemptions: A way out for employees or a tricky challenge for employers? | Workplace Coach Blog

Question: If I’m to believe the stack of religious exemptions on my desk, a miracle unfolded in our company last …

Religious exemptions, a way out for employees or a tricky challenge for employers?

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Don’t Lose Your New Employees Their 1st Week: The Reality & Drama of New Job Remorse | Workplace Coach Blog

How to retain employees: don't lost your new employees their first week: the reality and drama of new employee job remorse

Don't Lose Your New Employees Their 1st Week: The reality & drama of new job remose

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A Surprising New View on the Risk Employers Take When Terminating Employees for Refusing Vaccines - Workplace Coach Blog

A surprising new view from an attorney on the risk employers take when terminating employees that refuse vaccinations

A controversial new view on the risk employers take when terminating employees that refuse vaccines

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How Employers Can Lure Employees Back to the Office - Workplace Coach Blog

How employers can lure back to the workplace; pragmatic suggestions employers & HR can implement today

How employers can lure employees back to the office, a concrete, strategic game plan

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The Reality of Vaccine Mandates in the Workplace - Workplace Coach Blog

The reality of vaccine mandates in the workplace: the facts, the pros, the hows.

Vaccine mandates: the real results & what employers need to know

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Walk of Shame: How It Backfires - Workplace Coach Blog

Walk of shame & employee theft; how it backfires

When employers mishandle theft

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Is It True? Will Employees Resign Rather Than Get Vaccinated? - Workplace Coach Blog

Will employees resign rather than get vaccinated? Here's the truth and here's how you can find out the truth in your workplace.

Vaccine mandates: sorting out the facts from the hype, what do employers & businesses really find

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You Worked Remotely During the Pandemic…But Your Employer Says You Have to Come into the Office? Not So Fast. - Workplace Coach Blog

If you worked remotely during the pandemic, you may have grounds to insist you should still be allowed

The EEOC sues employers who don't let ADA qualified employees work remotely, particularly if they did so during the pandemic.

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Can Employers Ask Applicants "Are You Vaccinated?" - Workplace Coach Blog

Can employers ask applicants "are you vaccinated?"--not before making the job offer

Can employers ask applicants "Are you vaccinated?" How many employers just toss out applications that don't mention vaccination status.

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When Your Daughter is Also Your Employee and About to Get Fired - Workplace Coach Blog

How do you fire you child in the family business, when you want her to inherit the business?

Navigating family & work relationships, parent/child, sibling issues & business needs.

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You Worked Remotely During the Pandemic…But Your Employer Says You Have to Come into the Office? Not So Fast. - Workplace Coach Blog

If you worked remotely during the pandemic, you may have grounds to insist you should still be allowed

You worked remotely during the pandemic, but your employer says you have to come into the office? Not so fast, especially if you have specific reasons to fear COVID. For more on the first of its kind lawsuit.

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Find Out What Your Employees Want—Before You Lose Them - Workplace Coach Blog

Escape the great resignation, find out what your employees want before you lose them.

Here's what you need to know to avoid losing your best employees -- the latest research & pragmatic recommendations.

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My Employer is Strong-arming Me to Get Vaccinated with a Pay Cut - Workplace Coach Blog

Are employer's insurance surcharges on unvaccinated employees fair?

Can employers create an insurance premium surcharge for unvaccinated employees?

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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