Multi-talented Maven Gifts

'The only way to survive these days is to diversify.'

"I'm sorry, Ms. Cole is busy balancing family and career. Can I take a message and have her call you back?"

'A few more years in this job and you'll learn how to delegate stress.'

'Will you pipe down? I'm in a business meeting.'

'She finds it really easy to juggle her kids with her career now she's joined the circus.'

"Does anyone here have a clue what it is we used to get?"

'Don't worry about it. If at first we don't succeed, we can do it later and get paid time-and-a-half for it.'

Type A Freshman - changed courses four times, got a job, organized a protest, quit the job, plans to take second semester abroad.

"May I skip the usual Show & Tell and try to hustle some merch?"

"I don't have to be a team player, Crawford. I'm the team owner."

Multi-Tasking

'Once, long ago, I thought I was wrong...but it turned out I was mistaken.'

'I think it's time to rein in Henderson.'

'What can I do to create a climate where things get done?'

'Better brace yourself. It looks as though your broker's now equipping your monthly statement with crumple zones.'

'Sorry to interrupt Dixon - but this is not what I meant when I said this company needed more blue-sky thinking!'

"Someone, call the office and see if we can get a fresh carrot."

"First of all, let me commend everyone on the teamwork displayed on this icebreaker. Secondly, let me apologize for some of the motivational language I used during this session..."

"She bathes him. She feeds him. She burps him. Mother's a real micromanager."

Man carrying his boss.

The Working Mum

"Despite years of management training john still found it difficult to give negative feedback."

The worker/the man who monitors the worker/the man who wrote the draft policy guidelines on how to monitor the man monitoring the worker.

'There's an absence of leadership in this authority,we need to explore the possibility of thinking about setting up a sub-committee to look into it.'

"Tell me more about your imposter syndrome."

Eager to get back out but want to limit your exposure? Come to Barry's barbershop, restaurant, gym 'n cinema.

Laptops

'Office of not much budget, and even less management! Yomp speaking!'

"What kind of crazy management scheme is this?"

"Executive shoeshine and bald head buff, sir?"

Farmer's Market.

"May I remind you that my core worth as a human being remains constant, and isn't tied to external validation."

'I'm a wife, a daughter, a working mother...and you're asking me if I can MULTI-TASK???'

'How dare you accuse me of sinking this company?'