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How to Have a Better Relationship with Your Manager (with Video)

by Karin Hurt | Dec 10, 2021 | Asking For a Friend Featured | 0 comments

If you’re looking to have a better relationship with your manager, start here. “Hi Karin, I’ve been applying a lot of the tools and techniques I’ve learned in your leadership development program, and I’m getting some nice momentum. And,...

How Your Great Boss Might Be Hurting Your Career

by Karin Hurt | Feb 24, 2021 | Asking For a Friend Featured | 0 comments

Avoid Riding Coattails, Becoming a Mini-Me, and Other Career Limiting Mistakes Like other good things in life, a great boss relationship, taken to extremes, can wreak havoc with your career. I’ve seen otherwise smart and talented people lose credibility by...

How Do I Stop My Boss From Treating Me Like a Kid? (With Video)

by Karin Hurt | Mar 1, 2018 | Asking For a Friend Featured, Career & Learning | 0 comments

If Your Boss Treats You Like a Kid, Start Here Have you ever seen this dynamic? A manager has known “a kid” on his team forever. He loves him and really wants what’s best for him. And still, yet, he can’t stop treating him like a kid? If you...

5 Ways To Benefit From A Disengaged Boss

by Karin Hurt | Oct 25, 2013 | By Karin Hurt, Career & Learning | 17 comments

Ideally your boss is interested, eager to remove roadblocks, asking provocative questions, and helping build your career. That’s the leader I wish for you, and want you to be. But, with 71% of workers disengaged, chances are one day or another you’ll work...