Do your boss or coworkers ever talk to you from the adjacent toilet stall?  Are you at a loss for words, or do you think it's rude to ch

Is it OK to ask for more feedback from my boss  I never get any praise or criticism.  Once I managed to ask if a spreadsheet I gave her was

Ever get nervous before a performance review?  Does your helicopter mom want to get involved?  Here's advice from Someone Else's Dad

I’ve been asked to donate to several of my co-workers’ charities, political campaigns and fundraisers for their kids’ schools. I try to be n

Ever have an annoying coworker sit at your desk and keep talking like The Thing That Wouldn't Leave?  Here's advice on how to get ri

Did you forget when to use "who" or "whom"?  Never learn to when to use "who" or "whom"? Here's 

I like a more formal dress code since I’m European and enjoy wearing custom-fitted suits, interesting ties, pocket squares, patterned or no

Prepare for conference calls so you don't end up with this disastrous case. Send an agenda beforehand and stick to it, make sure you kno

Here's a video explaining that semi-colons are purely stylistic. They replace a period/full stop and a capital letter starting the next

Do filler words and phrases like "like," "um", "you know", "sort of" and "literally" as we

I feel I understand everything about our clients and our business but the company gave a promotion to a more senior woman who works on a dif

Self-employed people just put money aside to pay their estimated taxes before buying toys. Advice from someone else's dad.

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Make sure you get into your clients' shoes to figure out what's important to them.  Check with your boss about how much room you hav

Make sure that you explain the context of tasks so that younger members don’t think they're doing grunt work. Perhaps share the implicat

ou can’t change his personality; you can only change how you communicate with him.   As much as you’d like to tell him not to be a work hog

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Of course you have to know what’s happening in the markets; that’s your job. And I hope some day soon you’ll allow yourself to chill out and

Before you write an email or go into a meeting, figure out what your best-case actionable objective is. Do you want them to understand how t

Here are some tricks I use to make audiences pay attention: I let them know at the outset why the material is specifically important to them