When you have a good rapport with colleagues it’s easier to collaborate, share ideas and provide feedback. To cultivate these relationships, we often connect through a shared interest. Depending on your co-worker, finding theses shared interests is often easier said than done. Shawn Farrell thought he struck gold when he found a common interest with his co-workers until he took it one step too far.

Today there is hyper awareness around creating work environments of kindness and collaboration. All for one and one for all. Rising tides lift all boats. You catch my drift. To what lengths would you go to help a colleague in need? Are there limits if it could impact your career.

Our guest, gives the clothes off of her back, even if it may be at the detriment of her career.

In an earlier episode, we discussed how company’s scour a candidate’s social media activity as part of the interviewing process. What about once you’re an employee? Should employers be tracking their employee’s social media activity? And do they have the latitude to ask that a post be altered or removed? Let’s take a listen to Kirk’s story.

What are the chances that a guy’s guy from West Lafayette Indiana, with no background in woman’s fashion, would find himself scouring the Los Angeles garment district in search of the perfect little black dress. Well my friends, not so far-fetched. Careers take unexpected turns. And that’s exactly what happened to Tony Dowell a patent attorney from West Lafayette Indiana.

We take to the air with the CEO and executive vice president of a global advertising agency, as they criss-cross the country to meet with two very important clients as their best laid plans come undone.

From time to time people make significant life changes in their careers. They move to new cities. They take on impossible assignments. And when you’re in a professional services business, you’ll work your ass off day and night to make the client happy.

Peter chats with Mike, who shares his story of being so fixated on retaining a client’s business that he forgets the most basic of necessities.

Most people have had the job before the job. That being the summer job in high school. The job that teaches invaluable lessons that shape and mold us before we begin our “real” corporate jobs and careers.

In this episode, we discuss summer jobs beginning at the tender age of 15 and lessons learned (about work) that last a life time.

In the second of our series on interviewing, Peter talks with Brian, an attorney who uses some unconventional techniques get to the true character of job candidates.

Our guest on this episode shines a new light on working and collaborating in a non-traditional office.