Are you in a Cult?

Session 4: Staying Grounded from 9 to 5Instructor, Caroline Bender Isn’t it great when you love your job? When you feel that “groove” of knowing exactly the right thing to say or do, how to motivate others toward your goals, and support others in theirs? How good you feel about yourself when you’re there…how you think about it when you’re not there…how it is the first thing you think about in the morning… and how sometimes when you can’t sleep at night, you try just a little of it, to help you unwind? You know… like alcohol .Perhaps your current employer, even your entire professional field, has that added component of charisma that convinces...

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Workplace Dangers: Idea stealers

Freshman Seminar with Miss Minchin - Session 2It's happened to nearly everyone. You pitch an idea to your boss, or share a thought with your colleague and next thing you know that other person is taking credit for it as their own. What does one do in this situation? Well, there are several approaches:Vigilante approach: Demand justice at high noon. Set out to expose the idea stealer’s traitorous ways, regardless of whether he or she is your boss. Set out on a smear campaign designed to make others see him for the slimy weak thoughtless leech that he is. Be sure to jump up and shout "that was my idea" and offer to "take it outside" when it happens....

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Actually a Cowboy

Session 3: Deciphering the Dress CodeInstructor, Caroline Bender Now that it is mid-summer, it’s likely you have received the dress code memo – the one that vaguely scolds you for violating a policy you were unaware of until receiving the memo, and without telling you how you did so.Used to be that when you were reprimanded, you knew it. Used to be that when they didn’t like what you were wearing, they sent you home.Do as I implyToday, the Company is confusingly schizophrenic about dress. It wants to have that flexible-and-fun reputation, but also wants you to be the kind of employee who doesn’t really take advantage of it. So they send this:if...

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