# red flags
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49:38Workplace Surgery: new job red flagsAl Elliott: I love it. I love it. Um, you did a segment. If this, if you're listening, the person who wrote this, and also you, um, you're, you have a similar thing. Leanne did a little segment, um, a little while ago, aEP 294 · 21 Apr 2026·workplace surgery· 49:38–52:5242:08Workplace Surgery — new job full of red flagsAl Elliott: That's why she's a psychologist. Okay, so question number 3 and the final one. I've just started a new job and it's full of red flags. Should I get out now? I accepted a lower-level role out of necessity afteEP 242 · 21 Oct 2025·workplace surgery· 42:08–44:4539:12Workplace Surgery: is 50% staff turnover in two years a red flag?Leanne Elliott: Good advice, Al Al Elliott: Okay. Question number 2, is my staff turnover high? I like questions like this because they They're kind of like, a lot of people have these questions, go, I don't know. So I aEP 192 · 29 Apr 2025·workplace surgery· 39:12–45:4446:39Workplace Surgery: Redundancy Red FlagsAl Elliott: Okay, Lee, right, so question number 2, and I'm going to summarize it saying redundancy red flags. This person says, how do I know if I'm And what do I do if I am? So here we go. I can see the writing on the EP 168 · 4 Feb 2025·workplace surgery· 46:39–51:2014:35Lived experiences and red flags to watch forLeanne Elliott: That's Is there a typical lived experience that might be— is that a clue if we have somebody in our lives who, you know, has that, those types of behaviors? Is there something that typically we might expeEP 131 · 26 Sept 2024·interview· 14:35–18:469:28News Round-Up: Bad Bosses and How to Spot Them in an InterviewAl Elliott: But I was reading Fast Company magazine because I'm basically a boomer. I was reading Fast Company magazine, um, and there was a great article written by Tracy Bauer, or Brower. I'm not sure, Tracy, how you sEP 121 · 13 Aug 2024·news roundup· 9:28–14:402:13Resume red flags: what recruiters are really looking forAl Elliott: And after the break, we'll have our Workplace Clinic. Still got to think of a name for it. Maybe, I don't know, um, the Culture Clinic. That sounds a bit weird, where I put your questions to Leanne around worEP 88 · 9 Apr 2024·news roundup· 2:13–5:5116:25Red flags of a bad managerAl Elliott: So what are the red flags of a bad manager? Dave Kline: Oh man, we, it's funny, very early in our program, we ask all the leaders in there, you know, just give me the characteristics of the worst managers youEP 87 · 4 Apr 2024·interview· 16:25–19:3112:52Red flags: us and them cultures in survival-mode timesPetra Velzeboer: So I think it becomes an us and them culture. which I'm seeing a lot of in these kind of survival kind of times, right? So we've got the kind of behind closed doors leaders who make the decisions that afEP 80 · 29 Feb 2024·interview· 12:52–16:0910:51How do you know when things aren't working?Al Elliott: So how would you know when things aren't working in a partnership? I know for me it was just that I didn't have the interest or the energy I once had for the business that I was in partnership with. And just EP 76 · 1 Feb 2024·interview· 10:51–12:4754:33Red flags that will lose you the deal and the 'family' trapAl Elliott: Totally agree. I think there's so many people out there who are so obsessed with themselves and so narcissistic, as I think Sarah said, so narcissistic, they think that the business has to exist, that they arEP 27 · 22 Feb 2023·other· 54:33–65:03
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