Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Choosing Yourself: When it’s time to take a breather | Workplace Coach Blog

Choosing yourself: when it's time to take a breather--the benefits to taking a temporary career breather & how to do it gracefully

Choosing yourself: when it's time to take a breather & invest in yourself

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

My Boss Made Me the Oddest Offer | Workplace Coach Blog

My boss made me the oddest offer--to become a franchisee. Is there a catch? What might go wrong & why should I take this offer?

starting your business as a franchisee--when your boss offers

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Last Man Standing | Workplace Coach Blog

Last man standing: job purgatory after an involuntary job reassignment: questions to ask and steps to take

Reassigned...not laid off...but to a job I do NOT want...don't panic, think.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Blind, deaf, broken, BRAVE | Sheepdog Deuce | LynneCurryAuthor.com

An uplifting blog post about a terrible accident, fear, bravery, a dog named Deuce, and seeing with your heart.

Blind, deaf, broken, BRAVE, what a very small dog teaches.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

My Promotion Vanished | Workplace Coach Blog

My promotion vanished: how to interpret a boss's promises and what to do when the boss welches on a promise

What do you do when your boss promises a promotion and welshes on the deal as soon as you do the work?

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

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

How to turn down a job offer--and should you? 6 questions to ask, and exactly how to decline the offer without burning a bridge

6 ?s to ask before you accept or turn down a job offer

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

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

How to turn down a job offer--and should you? 6 questions to ask, and exactly how to decline the offer without burning a bridge

6 ?s to ask before you accept or turn down a job offer

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

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

Should I accept a promotion if there's no raise attached? The many reasons to say "yes," and the three reasons to say "no"

Why you want to accept a promotion, even without a raise--and the three times when you shouldn't.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

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

Should I accept a promotion if there's no raise attached? The many reasons to say "yes," and the three reasons to say "no"

Why you want to accept a promotion, even without a raise--and the three times when you shouldn't.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

A hotbed of conflict: the breakroom sagas & a surprise ending | Workplace Coach Blog

A hotbed of conflict: the breakroom sagas & a surprise ending: how 4 workplaces straightened out their culprits by outing them

The breakroom sagas: 4 real-life dramas you may have witnessed--and how one group of coworkers fixed the culprit

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

A hotbed of conflict: the breakroom sagas & a surprise ending | Workplace Coach Blog

A hotbed of conflict: the breakroom sagas & a surprise ending: how 4 workplaces straightened out their culprits by outing them

The breakroom sagas: 4 real-life dramas you may have witnessed--and how one group of coworkers fixed the culprit

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

We Do the Same Job; He Gets Paid a LOT More | Workplace Coach Blog

We do the same job; he gets paid a lot more. How to negotiate a higher salary and why your pay may be lower than your coworker's.

When you're not paid fairly--here's what to look at.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Still Fighting With My Employer—Can You Help? | Workplace Coach Blog

Still Fighting with My Employer for reimbursing me for work from home expenses--isn't there a law that can help me?

Does your employer owe you money for the office supplies and desk you purchased during "work from home"?

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Fired for Not Smiling–This is Not a Joke | Workplace Coach Blog

Fired for not smiling--who does that? And what do I do now? Do I have to say "I was fired"? Can I say, "it was a mutual decision"?

Fired for smiling--this is not a joke. What kind of supervisor insists an employee smile--or is there more to the story?

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Fired for Not Smiling–This is Not a Joke | Workplace Coach Blog

Fired for not smiling--who does that? And what do I do now? Do I have to say "I was fired"? Can I say, "it was a mutual decision"?

Fired for smiling--this is not a joke. What kind of supervisor insists an employee smile--or is there more to the story?

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Still Fighting With My Employer—Can You Help? | Workplace Coach Blog

Still Fighting with My Employer for reimbursing me for work from home expenses--isn't there a law that can help me?

My employer promised to reimburse me for a desk and a chair when I worked from home during the pandemic. They didn't.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Still Fighting With My Employer—Can You Help? | Workplace Coach Blog

Still Fighting with My Employer for reimbursing me for work from home expenses--isn't there a law that can help me?

My employer promised to reimburse me for a desk and a chair when I worked from home during the pandemic. They didn't.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Still Fighting With My Employer—Can You Help? | Workplace Coach Blog

Still Fighting with My Employer for reimbursing me for work from home expenses--isn't there a law that can help me?

My employer promised to reimburse me for a desk and a chair when I worked from home during the pandemic. They didn't.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Still Fighting With My Employer—Can You Help? | Workplace Coach Blog

Still Fighting with My Employer for reimbursing me for work from home expenses--isn't there a law that can help me?

My employer promised to reimburse me for a desk and a chair when I worked from home during the pandemic. They didn't.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Rage Applying: An Act of Revenge Against A Problem Employer | Workplace Coach Blog

Rage-applying: an act of revenge against a problem employer--the results when employees use it and other, better options.

Rage applying, an act of revenge against an employer--what it is, does it work.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Left Behind: Everyone else is light years ahead of me | Workplace Coach Blog

Left behind: everyone else is light years ahead of me: do self-employed workers have it better? Is it too late to strike out on your own?

When everyone else seems to be career light-years ahead of you--is it because you've not tackled your fear of risk?

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Left Behind: Everyone else is light years ahead of me | Workplace Coach Blog

Left behind: everyone else is light years ahead of me: do self-employed workers have it better? Is it too late to strike out on your own?

When everyone else seems to be career light-years ahead of you--is it because you've not tackled your fear of risk?

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Are Employers Not Hiring Anymore & Does Being Unemployed Hurt Your Chances of Finding a Job? | Workplace Coach Blog

Employers aren't hiring & being unemployed hurts your job search: here's what you need to know before you quit your job

Searching for a job without success. Have employers slowed hiring? And should I quit so I can fully engage in my job search? Is it harder to get a job when you're unemployed.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Work Junky? Unable to Disconnect on Vacation? | Workplace Coach Blog

Work junky? Unable to disconnect while on vacation? But do you want to disconnect? Does anyone anymore? If you do, here's how.

Work Junky: unable to disconnect on vacation? You're not alone

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Political Discussions in the Workplace: Strategies for Handling What’s Coming | Workplace Coach Blog

Political discussions in the workplace: strategies for handling what's coming: the facts and what employers and employees need to do

Talking politics @ work.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Smarter Than My Boss: I Threaten Her | Workplace Coach Blog

My boss is threatened by me; I'm smarter than her and now I'm paying the price. Since you can't change her insecurity, here's what to do

When your brains or skills threaten your boss -- but you want to keep your job, here's how.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

The Dreaded Workplace Birthday “Celebration” | Workplace Coach Blog

The dreaded workplace birthday celebrations; if you hate them, suggest a major revamp that creates value

Do you dread or enjoy those required office birthday celebrations?

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Recovering from Quiet Quitting: Don’t let your career dreams die | Workplace Coach Blog

Recover from quiet quitting: don't let your career dreams die: how to move past when you're stuck working under a problem manager

Recovering from quiet quitting: don't let your career dreams die

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

When Leaders & Managers Don’t Believe They Need to Change Their Ways—How You Can Get Through to Them | Workplace

When leaders & managers don't believe they need to change their ways, you can get through to them using exit interviews & employee surveys

How to prove the bullies in your company are a problem.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Confidentiality Agreements No More: It’s now safe to tell the truth about my ex-employer’s lies | Workplace Coach Bl

Confidentiality agreements no more: It's now safe to tell the truth about my ex-employer's lies: what's changed

New freedom for employees who want to tell the truth about what their last employers are/were like, even if they signed a severance agreement with confidentiality and nondisparagement clauses.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Confidentiality Agreements No More: It’s now safe to tell the truth about my ex-employer’s lies | Workplace Coach Bl

Confidentiality agreements no more: It's now safe to tell the truth about my ex-employer's lies: what's changed

New freedom for employees who want to tell the truth about what their last employers are/were like, even if they signed a severance agreement with confidentiality and nondisparagement clauses.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Have Your Weekends Disappeared? | Workplace Coach Blog

Have you lost your weekends? Do you want them back? Try these 5 strategies and enjoy your weekends again.

Have your weekends disappeared?

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Would You Wish Your Job on Your Worst Enemy? | Workplace Coach Blog

Would you wish your job on your worst enemy? 38% said "no." 53% wished they'd chosen a completely different profession.

Stunning survey results ...especially struck with the fact that so many people wouldn't choose their current professions.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

How to Get Your Boss Fired (& Maybe Even Set Him Up) | Workplace Coach Blog

how to get your boss fired: concrete steps to take that can produce results

When you've had enough. When your boss needs to go.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

High-horse Manager Critiques Me for Being Twice-divorced | Workplace Coach Blog

High-horse manager critiques me for being twice-divorced; four options that work when you "can't take it anymore"

When a manager insults you personally

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Toxic Boss: 5 Proven Strategies for Surviving the Negative, Controlling, Toxic Boss | Workplace Coach Blog

Toxic Boss: 5 proven strategies for surviving the negative, controlling, toxic boss

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

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Clues Your Manager Is Threatened By You & What To Do When This Happens | Workplace Coach Blog

clues your manager is threatened by you and what to do when this happens

Do you have the sense your manager treats you poorly because s/he feels threatened by you? Here's how to recognize this pattern & what to do about it.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

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Navigating Workplace & Life Challenges; Coaching & Inspiration

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Freedom to Be | Workplace Coach Blog

Freedom to be who you want to be, to live the life you want to live, your birthday each gives you a chance to declare what you'll do

Freedom to be who you want to be

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Must Love Dogs, Cats, Ferrets, Hamsters… | Workplace Coach Blog

Must love dogs, cats, ferrets, hamsters: dogs in the office, the benefits, the challenges, the real-life decisions

Must love dogs, cats, ferrets, hamsters: the pet-friendly office, the benefits & exactly how to do it

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Workplace Coach Blog

Navigating Workplace & Life Challenges; Coaching & Inspiration

Employer partners with employees for pets in the office

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Remote Jobs Are Vanishing | Workplace Coach Blog

Remote jobs are vanishing. Here is the reality, and here are your three options.

Remote jobs are vanishing. If you want to work remote, what are your options?

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Laid Off By Email | Workplace Coach Blog

Laid off by email: it happens a lot. Seniority doesn't matter to many employers. Protect yourself by performance and possessing needed skills.

Laid off by email? Your job ends in an instant? Don't employers even call anymore? Doesn't your history with an employer matter?

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

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

Drama triangle: workplace quicksand: a quick 6-minute video that explains the drama triangle; how it pull you in & how to antidote it

The drama triangle: abusers seek out victims; victims stay enmeshed; rescuers rus in; how to antidote th

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

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

Drama triangle: workplace quicksand: a quick 6-minute video that explains the drama triangle; how it pull you in & how to antidote it

The drama triangle; why you might attract an abuser; what happens to rescuers; hot to antidote the triangle

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Don’t Want to Return to the Office: Negotiate: | Workplace Coach Blog

Don't want to return to the office? Negotiate. Decide what you want, your fallback positions, and your bottom line. Make your request in terms that benefit your employer.

Here's how to negotiate if you want to work remote or hybrid & don't want to return to the office.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Free Conflict Skills Webinar | Workplace Coach Blog

Conflict skills webinar: free 46 minute webinar, offering you multiple chances to practice skills in multiple areas

Free 46-minute conflict skills webinar: strategies for taking criticism, owning your part in problems, mediating between others, starting conflict discussions.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

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

conflict resolution skills: teflon yourself to criticism: you can learn this powerful, valuable tactic in less than 2 minutes

Teflon yourself to criticism/a 2-minute video training

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Workplace Coach Blog

Navigating Workplace & Life Challenges; Coaching & Inspiration

Has your employer ordered you to return to on-site work? Do you hate the idea? How can you fight it?

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Managing the Micromanager: 7 steps for reforming a micro-managing boss | Workplace Coach Blog

Micromanager: managing the micro-manager: 7 steps that work to reform a micro-managing boss so you regain autonomy

How to get your micro-manager to back off.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Blind, deaf, broken, BRAVE | Workplace Coach Blog

Blind, deaf, broken, BRAVE. How a blind, deaf dog with a broken back taught me more than I've yet learned.

The dog that took my fear away, and how he did it.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Jokes and Social Media Posts That Get You Fired | Workplace Coach Blog

Jokes and social media posts that get you fired; the chances you'll be fired; what thype of posts are getting others fired; your defenses and risks;

Jokes that get you fired. Social media posts you'll regret.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Ending a passive-aggressive sniper’s game | Workplace Coach Blog

Passive-aggressive snipers: here's how to end their games by confronting each game, one at a time.

Passive-aggressive snipers. You can't ignore them. You can't go toe to toe. But you can end their game.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

The Password Hack: Passwords Are Like Underwear—Don’t Share & Change Often | Workplace Coach Blog

The password hack: passwords are like underwear, don't share and change often: 6 action steps that protect you

Protecting yourself from a password hacker.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Coming Out at Work: the gay, bisexual, lesbian, transgender and questioning challenge | Workplace Coach Blog

Coming out at work: the gay, bisexual, lesbian, transgender and queer challenge: the risks, the rewards, one true story

Coming out at work

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Opening Your Mouth & Letting Words Fly | Workplace Coach Blog

Conflict; opening your mouth and letting words fly; here are the action steps you can take instead if you want a positive outcome

Conflict: How to start conflict discussions if you want success/results

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Disinvited: the only one not invited to the party | Workplace Coach Blog

Conflict & office politics: when you're the only one not invited to the office party

Disinvited -- what's the rest of the story?

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Valiant | Workplace Coach Blog

Valiant, smart, protector dogs who handle moose and other situations with grace and courage, teaching their writer mom a great deal.

A story of courage, loyalty and savvy

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Are Employees Who Need the Money Being Taken Advantages of by Their Employers | Workplace Coach Blog

Are employees who need the money being taken advantage of by their employers? It's a real possibility. It's happened before.

Are some employers keeping the pandemic relief or other federal money meant for employees?

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Unfairly Fired: My Supervisor Set Me Up; Are You Sure About That? | Workplace Coach Blog

Question: My employer unfairly fired me. My supervisor set me up. Here’s the situation. My supervisor texted me. He did …

Unfairly fired: my supervisor set me up -- are you sure about that? After all, everyone texts.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

How do you deal with an IDIOT, er, “toxic person” in the workplace? | Workplace Coach Blog

Conflict skills training in a book -- five 5-star reviews from readers who've tested the book that might prove valuable to you as well.

Do you deal with toxic, difficult individuals? Need to speak up but know you'll take a risk? Check this out.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

A New Employee Who Walks Into a Sexual Hornet’s Nest | Workplace Coach Blog

Sexual harassment, a new employee walks into a sexual hornet's next; her 3 options & the possible outcomes

When you walk into a sexual harassment hornet's next.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Aborted Break In Heroes | Workplace Coach Blog

Aborted break in heroes, smart, brave, determined, loyal rough-coated collies

Aborted break in heroes. Dogs are a person's best friends.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

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Navigating Workplace & Life Challenges; Coaching & Inspiration

Signing bonus -- should you accept, or is the money not free? Here's how to navigate the strings.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Speaking Truth to Power | Workplace Coach Blog

Speaking Truth to Power: Do you imagine marshaling your courage and telling your boss or someone important that he’s made the wrong judgment call? Do you fear retaliation or making a problem situation worse?

Speaking truth to power: what, how & when

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Workplace Coach Blog

Navigating Workplace & Life Challenges; Coaching & Inspiration

Speaking truth to power: why, how, & when

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Workplace Coach Blog

Navigating Workplace & Life Challenges; Coaching & Inspiration

Job Disaster: Steering a Shipwreck when all your employer offers is fluff and masking tape

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

What to Do When Your Career Blows Up, And Maybe Your Life | Workplace Coach Blog

dealing with career setbacks & personal life disasters: What to do when your career blows up after your life has and y

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Workplace Coach Blog

Navigating Workplace & Life Challenges; Coaching & Inspiration

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Workplace Coach Blog

Navigating Workplace & Life Challenges; Coaching & Inspiration

Gaslighting--it happens all too often.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Writing & Don’t Swap Your Backbone for a Wishbone | Workplace Coach Blog

writing and courage, taking a risk, traveling outside your comfort zone

What's your dream? Are you moving forward, or not? If not what stops you & what will move you forward?

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Workplace Coach Blog

Navigating Workplace & Life Challenges; Coaching & Inspiration

Do you have a dream? To write or something else? What stops you, and how to start moving forward.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Your Work Honeymoon is Over; What Now? | Workplace Coach Blog

When your job honeymoon is over; here's why it happens and here's what you and your employer can do

When your work honeymoon ends, you need to put the romance back in to your job.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

In What Universe Is This Fair?: The College Debt Forgiveness Question Gets Personal | Workplace Coach Blog

The College Debt Forgiveness Question Gets Personal: In What Universe is This Fair?: one true-life story

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Workplace Coach Blog

Navigating Workplace & Life Challenges; Coaching & Inspiration

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Complicit & Helping Someone Find Her Courage | Workplace Coach Blog

#complicit: #metoo & helping someone find her courage; when you're the one that someone in trouble reaches out to

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Moptu Bookmarklet

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Senior Manager Came onto Me and Now I Fear Being Fired | Workplace Coach Blog

Sexual harassment: senior manager came onto me and now I fear being fired. -- you have options--HR, senior manager, the law

When a senior manager comes onto you and you fear being fired, you have options

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

My Great Job Offer Evaporated…Now What? Is This the New Thing? | Workplace Coach Blog

Your great job offer evaporated...what options you have now--you may have a legal claim

My great job offer evaporated...what now? When an employer rescinds an offer.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Gig Work: Right for You? | Workplace Coach Blog

Gig work: right for you? 4 key benefits.

Gig work: right for you? 4 real-life answers.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Fizzled Romance Leaves an Afterburn | Workplace Coach Blog

Fizzled romance leaves an afterburn, here's a new way to look at it.

The vibe was there. But jilted. Because I did my job.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Recession Fears Loom; Here’s How to Avoid Being Laid Off & What To Do If You Are | Workplace Coach Blog

Recession fears loom; here's how to avoid being laid off and what to do if you are

How to avoid being laid off & what to do if that happens.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Working for an Alcoholic Boss & Expecting to Be Fired Tomorrow | Workplace Coach Blog

Working for an alcoholic boss? Expecting to be fired? Here's what you need to realize about alcoholic bosses. And you may want to quit.

Working for an alcoholic boss? Expecting to be fired? Here's what to know about alcoholic bosses. And you might consider quitting now.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

The Con Artist’s Gift: You Lose Your Fear Baggage | Workplace Coach Blog

When a con artist takes advantage of you & you stand up for yourself, you can lose your fear baggage and this is a true gift to yourself

If you've feared conflict & face a challenge from a manipulative "dragon" of a person, here's how to fight & win

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Betrayed by a Cut-throat Coworker; How Do I Make a Comeback? | Workplace Coach Blog

Betrayed by a cut-throat coworker; how do I make a comeback? Clear steps & strategies for regaining control of your career.

When a cut-throat coworker takes you on, what's your best defense? How do you handle office politics on steroids?

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

If An Expected Question Throws You, How You Can Recover and Get Back In the Game | Workplace Coach Blog

If an unexpected job interview question throws you, here's how you can recover and get back in the game

Joh interview questions can throw you; here's how to get back in the game.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Handling An Attack By A Resentful Coworker Who Expected the Promotion I Got | Workplace Coach Blog

How to handle a public attack by someone who expected the criticism I got

How to handle an attack from a resentful former-coworker who expected the promotion I got.