about           videos          ask dad blog         podcast         connect  
  • All Posts
  • Getting Started
  • millennials
  • advice from someone else's dad
  • new workers
  • the office
  • work life
  • comma
  • negotiating
  • semi-colon
  • grammar
  • BATNA
  • get the best deal
  • vocal fry
  • video
  • communication advice
  • ask dad
  • ask for a raise
  • promotion
  • underpaid
  • manage meetings
  • blog
  • get rid of ums
  • literally
  • who vs. whom
  • politics at work
  • bad workplace
  • hate my job
  • bad boss
  • know-it-all
  • conference calls
Search
How to receive a performance review
Peter Yawitz
  • Aug 22, 2017
  • 1 min

How to receive a performance review

Ever get nervous before a performance review?  Does your helicopter mom want to get involved?  Here's advice from Someone Else's Dad
2 views0 comments
Do I have to give to coworkers' charities?
Peter Yawitz
  • Aug 16, 2017
  • 2 min

Do I have to give to coworkers' charities?

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
5 views0 comments
How do I deal with a chatty coworker?
Peter Yawitz
  • Aug 8, 2017
  • 1 min

How do I deal with a chatty coworker?

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
1 view0 comments
When do I use "who" and "whom"?
Peter Yawitz
  • Aug 3, 2017
  • 1 min

When do I use "who" and "whom"?

Did you forget when to use "who" or "whom"?  Never learn to when to use "who" or "whom"? Here's 
1 view0 comments
Can I wear fancy clothes in a casual workplace?
Peter Yawitz
  • Jul 27, 2017
  • 2 min

Can I wear fancy clothes in a casual workplace?

I like a more formal dress code since I’m European and enjoy wearing custom-fitted suits, interesting ties, pocket squares, patterned or no
16 views0 comments
How to deal with conference calls
Peter Yawitz
  • Jul 25, 2017
  • 1 min

How to deal with conference calls

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
1 view0 comments
When do I use a semi-colon?
Peter Yawitz
  • Jul 18, 2017
  • 1 min

When do I use a semi-colon?

Here's a video explaining that semi-colons are purely stylistic. They replace a period/full stop and a capital letter starting the next
4 views0 comments
How do I get rid of ums?
Peter Yawitz
  • Jul 11, 2017
  • 1 min

How do I get rid of ums?

Do filler words and phrases like "like," "um", "you know", "sort of" and "literally" as we
0 views0 comments
Why was I bypassed for promotion?
Peter Yawitz
  • Jul 9, 2017
  • 2 min

Why was I bypassed for promotion?

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
5 views0 comments
Put money aside to pay your taxes
Peter Yawitz
  • Jun 26, 2017
  • 1 min

Put money aside to pay your taxes

Self-employed people just put money aside to pay their estimated taxes before buying toys. Advice from someone else's dad.
4 views0 comments
How do I ask for a raise?
Peter Yawitz
  • Jun 23, 2017
  • 1 min

How do I ask for a raise?

Think you deserve a raise but don't know how to go about asking for one?  Make sure you have a detailed summary about how you've hel
3 views0 comments
How do I negotiate with a client?
Peter Yawitz
  • Jun 23, 2017
  • 1 min

How do I negotiate with a client?

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
2 views0 comments
How can boomers and millennials work together?
Peter Yawitz
  • Jun 22, 2017
  • 2 min

How can boomers and millennials work together?

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
5 views0 comments
How do I deal with an annoying coworker?
Peter Yawitz
  • Jun 22, 2017
  • 3 min

How do I deal with an annoying coworker?

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
4 views0 comments
Prepare Prework For Premeetings
Peter Yawitz
  • May 12, 2017
  • 1 min

Prepare Prework For Premeetings

Presently a preponderance of even preeminent people prattle on about “pre-approving a pre-plan and pre-notifying pre the pre-screen.”...
1 view0 comments
Should I quit my toxic workplace?
Peter Yawitz
  • May 10, 2017
  • 2 min

Should I quit my toxic workplace?

If you’re in a large company, your manager might have his own culture of bilking, blaming and backstabbing.  But maybe you can find a role i
7 views0 comments
How can I be more well-rounded?
Peter Yawitz
  • May 2, 2017
  • 2 min

How can I be more well-rounded?

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
4 views0 comments
How can I be more specific without being pushy?
Peter Yawitz
  • Apr 20, 2017
  • 2 min

How can I be more specific without being pushy?

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
3 views0 comments
How can I keep an audience from falling asleep?
Peter Yawitz
  • Apr 14, 2017
  • 2 min

How can I keep an audience from falling asleep?

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
6 views0 comments
How do I manage a meeting?
Peter Yawitz
  • Apr 13, 2017
  • 3 min

How do I manage a meeting?

To make sure you get what you need you should have done the following before the meeting:​ Prepared a list of questions, grouped in categori
1 view0 comments
234
5
6
AFSED-Logo-big.png

dad@someoneelsesdad.com | New York 

©2019 AFSED All Rights Reserved | Privacy & Legal 

Join our mailing list

Never miss a new video update!

  • Grey Facebook Icon
  • Grey Twitter Icon
  • Grey YouTube Icon
  • Grey LinkedIn Icon