It's important to celebrate your colleagues for their successes. Their wins are your wins, after all. But sometimes, hearing about a co-worker’s successes can be draining—especially if you feel that ...

It's one thing to admit that your work is created by AI, and it's another to claim it as your own.

The dreaded feeling of Sunday night anxiety often stems not from the work itself, but from the toxic colleague who makes every day feel like navigating a minefield of manipulation, drama, and ...

I referred to my colleague as my work-wife and the person got offended. I meant it in a complimentary way, but got reprimanded by HR. I can’t take this hyper-sensitivity. Can I get in trouble for not ...

I once consulted to a company, where someone left the salary information for everyone in a single department on the copier for me to find. It was eye-opening how different the salaries were at the ...

Some colleagues make knee-jerk decisions, committing themselves without weighing all considerations. These colleagues are pushy or presumptuous and let their enthusiasm overcome their reason. They get ...

We are deep within one of the harder seasons for work-life integration. Yes, integration. I don’t like the word “balance,” because we never really have clean-cut boundaries between work and life. We ...

When we trust our colleagues–whether they are fellow members of the leadership team, direct reports, or staff from another department–we have confidence in their abilities. We know they share our ...

Before he died, my colleague Jon Holmes appointed me departmental poet. Though I had written only one amateurish poem at the time, I was somehow worthy of the honor. During a secret hallway ...

Learn effective boundary-setting techniques. Source: Photo by Los Muertos Crew from Pexels Dealing with a passive-aggressive co-worker isn’t easy, especially when you’re a sensitive person. Because of ...

Dear Miss Manners: A tenured colleague routinely solicits the faculty to contribute to group gifts. This colleague sends the requests not only to those of us with tenure, but also to subordinates ...