When a colleague consistently misrepresents their skills or achievements, it erodes trust and impacts team performance. Instead of direct confrontation, document patterns of unfulfilled claims and ...

If you’re a long-term employee, it’s not only frustrating when your colleagues have an outdated perception of you—it can stymie your professional growth. How can you align your reputation with your ...

The culture and politics of your team is genuinely strange; the sudden and barely explained departures are illustrative of ...

Managers often dispense the same advice when dealing with workplace conflict: "You don't have to be friends. You just have to work together." While this sentiment may temporarily placate a difficult ...

In the early days of his role as director of Student Employment Services, Nick Lantz was enjoying a holiday gathering on the Homewood campus when he noticed something curious. "I was sitting there ...

I was a time bomb. For months, I’d told myself I could hold on. I could beat away the black dog of depression pulling me under. I was wrong. The agitated despair was a jackhammer in my brain, and I ...

In 2023, I lost a close colleague in my department to cancer; she was very private, and she had told few people about her prognosis. We had been working together on a search committee for a new ...