Ask a Manager
Summary: Need expert advice on handling workplace dilemmas and dramas? Alison Green, founder of the popular website AskAManager.org, is here to help you resolve your toughest, most frustrating, or just plain weirdest work predicaments. Each week, she takes calls and talks directly with listeners about how to successfully tackle clueless coworkers, toxic bosses, impossible employees, crazy clients, and much more. Learn more at AskAManager.org and subscribe now! Produced in conjunction with Anchor and Penguin Random House.
- Visit Website
- RSS
- Artist: Alison Green / Anchor
Podcasts:
This week's guest wants to show off at work, and is trying to figure out why and how to keep it under control.
Tone really matters when you're raising something awkward or tricky. This episode has a bunch of examples of how to get your tone right.
What do you say when negotiating salary, and what should your tone be?
After I asked for volunteers, a man who worries that he might be a mansplainer was brave enough to come on the show and talk about it.
In episode 7 of the show, I talked with Jennifer Peepas of the Captain Awkward advice column. Here's some of our conversation that didn't make it into the show.
You thought you were helping an unfairly maligned coworker ... but the situation wasn't what it seemed. Featuring Jennifer Peepas of the Captain Awkward blog!
If you like managers who your peers dislike, what does that say about you?
Best-selling author Gretchen Rubin of The Happiness Project and The 4 Tendencies joins us to talk about how to be happier at work.
Flexibility is great, but what if an employee is using it in a way that doesn't work for your team?
How do you deal with a coworker who leans on you for help way too much?
I quit my job three months ago, but I'm still training my replacement.
My friend is becoming my boss! How do I navigate this?
