By Lynne Curry bio
Thirty-nine years ago I leapt off the cliff, deciding to create a business that offered employers and employees assistance in handling employee challenges…
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Not just another HR story
June 21, 2019 by
YOUR CAREER
To-Dos: Your July office checklist
June 21, 2019 by
According to best-selling author Regina Brett, “Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and…
WORKING WITH LAWYERS
9 ways to stay neutral (and sane) when reporting to multiple lawyers
June 21, 2019 by
The job of managing a law office can be unpredictable, because you often don’t have the luxury of answering to just one boss. Instead, there are as many bosses as there are…
MANAGING THE OFFICE
How in the world can anybody stop gossip?
June 21, 2019 by
Question: How can a manager effectively put the squelch on office gossip?
(Submitted by Timothy Burns, chief administrative officer, Glenwood Medical Associates, Glenwood Springs, CO)…
INCREASING PROFITS
Job descriptions make paralegals a profit center
June 14, 2019 by
A Phoenix firm realized its paralegal force was not paying for itself in billings. Instead, the group was not only unsupervised but was being given…
YOUR CAREER
10 ways managers are improving their law firms
June 14, 2019 by
Ah, the woes of running a law office. You know them well: Reams of reports, scheduling squabbles, technology tangles, and so much more. It takes a lot of skill, patience, and strategy to make a…
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You can be personally liable for what happens in your workplace
June 7, 2019 by
By Lynne Curry bio
It comes as a surprise to most managers when a plaintiff names them personally as a co-defendant in a lawsuit against the manager’s company…
SEXUAL HARASSMENT
5 blind spots in sexual harassment policies and how to fix them
June 7, 2019 by
Recent months have witnessed the morphing of workplace sexual harassment prevention from legal requirement to moral imperative. And while the current fervor is…
MANAGING STAFF
How to support the caregivers in your workplace
June 7, 2019 by
Half of working female caregivers feel they have to choose between being a good employee and being a good daughter, according to a new survey by…
MANAGING THE OFFICE
Use straight talk to solve 4 common people problems in your firm
June 7, 2019 by
The key to success as a manager is being up-front with employees. Yet that is what managers are most reluctant to do. They don’t want to sit down with a staff member and say…
