630: How to Work with a Boss You Don’t Like with Katherine Crowley
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 4 January 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Katherine Crowley discusses what to do when your boss is holding you back.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) What to do when your boss gets under your skin
2) The 20 bad boss behaviors that drive employees nuts
3) The most important thing you can do when managing up
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— ABOUT KATHERINE —
Katherine Crowley is a Harvard-trained psychotherapist and career consultant. She helps individuals identify and tackle psychological and interpersonal obstacles to success. She assists with career assessment, developing a personal vision, improving interpersonal skills, and creating work/life balance.
Katherine is also the co-founder of K Squared Enterprises, a Management Consulting firm dedicated to helping individuals and companies accomplish their business objectives while navigating the psychological challenges of working with others. She is the co-host of the podcast, My Crazy Office, which is a weekly workplace podcast dedicated to helping listeners navigate their careers.
• Katherine’s book: Working for You Isn't Working for Me: How to Get Ahead When Your Boss Holds You Back with Kathi Elster
• Katherine’s book: Working With You is Killing Me: Freeing Yourself from Emotional Traps at Work with Kathi Elster
• Katherine’s book: Mean Girls at Work: How to Stay Professional When Things Get Personal with Kathi Elster
• Katherine’s podcast: My Crazy Office
• Katherine’s website: KSquaredEnterprises.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required |
| 0:08.6 | to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.3 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host Pete LeCaites. |
| 0:16.1 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 630 with Catherine Crowley. |
| 0:22.8 | If you have a difficult boss, if you've had some time off, you're not looking forward |
| 0:26.7 | to re-engaging the boss. |
| 0:28.8 | Catherine's got some pro tips on what to do when your boss is holding it back, how to |
| 0:33.4 | work with someone, you're not so thrilled to be working with. |
| 0:36.3 | You'll learn one, what to do when your boss gets under your skin, two, the 20 bad boss |
| 0:40.6 | behaviors that drive employees nuts and three. |
| 0:43.5 | The most important thing you can do when you're managing up. |
| 0:46.5 | So you want to check out the show notes or the transcript of the links to Alex V. reference. |
| 0:49.4 | You can drop on by awesome at your job.com slash EP 630. |
| 0:54.3 | If you're listening to this in January 2021, this episode should be ad-free. |
| 0:59.4 | I did that for you because there are many new listeners, historically, in January, |
| 1:05.0 | New Year's resolutions or what, not that self-improvement mojo going on. |
| 1:10.0 | So I want to be as welcoming as possible and I'm going to give a rundown of a couple |
| 1:13.6 | bonus resources, new listeners, you might not yet know about. |
| 1:19.4 | So if you've listened to hundreds of episodes, feel free to skip a couple of minutes or |
| 1:24.0 | maybe I'm going to tell you something that you don't know about. |
| 1:26.3 | So hey, new listeners, welcome, welcome, I'm so glad to have you here. |
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