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Jeff Havens

Jeff Havens
Career Expert

About the Author

Jeff Havens is a former comedian turned leadership and career expert.  His various presentations – ‘Uncrapify Your Life!,’ ‘How to Get Fired!,’ and ‘Unleash Your Inner Tyrant!,’ have found favor with General Electric, Ford Motors, USBank, McDonald’s, and hundreds of other corporations and colleges across North America.  For more information, visit www.jeffhavens.com


Jeff Havens (as well as Fisher Communications, Inc. and its affiliates), will be saved harmless from any reader’s claim that their understanding or implementation of the advice in this column had an adverse effect. No specific outcome is implied or promised.  The column is for general informational purposes only. It is not intended as legal or psychological advice, nor is it a substitute for face-to-face counseling or psychotherapy. Accordingly, readers should not act upon information in this column without seeking appropriate professional advice.

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How to Dress Like a Complete and Utter Failure!

How to Dress Like a Complete and Utter Failure!

Hello peoples!  I am writing to you today from my living room.  I’m wearing frayed slippers, plaid flannel pajama pants, the same T-...
Adorable Ways to Fail at an Office Romance!

Adorable Ways to Fail at an Office Romance!

Hello, devoted readers!  I’m writing today from Wichita, Kansas, which I learned yesterday is the airplane manufacturing capital of the...
Making The Least Out Of Your Meetings!

Making The Least Out Of Your Meetings!

Hello everyone! I’ve just come back from a meeting that literally made me want to rip my own ears off. If there had been a window in the...
Ways to Annoy Your Customers

Ways to Annoy Your Customers

Hello, aspiring shopkeepers (that’s a more entertaining word than ‘business owners,’ so I’m going with it). As the occasional...
Dumb Workplace Expressions

Dumb Workplace Expressions

Hello everyone!  I’m in a pretty good mood today.  I’m in Durango, Colorado, about to present at the college here, but I got in...
3 Ways to Suck the Life Out Of Your Office

3 Ways to Suck the Life Out Of Your Office

Hello everyone! I’m sitting by my window right now, staring out at yet another dreary Midwestern winter day. The sky is one giant shapeless...
Your Employees Could Be Unhappier

Your Employees Could Be Unhappier

Jeff Havens here, jazzed about an article I just read. It turns out that a 2009 employee survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Managers...
Do You Like Other People? Me Neither.

Do You Like Other People? Me Neither.

Hello, and welcome to 2012! I think I’ve already said that once, but it’s still new to me, and my renewed hope in humanity has not yet...
Thoughts On Diversity

Thoughts On Diversity

Hello again, and welcome to another Martin Luther King Day.  Today we honor one of America’s most impressive orators, a man who helped...
The Tyrant’s New Year’s Resolutions

The Tyrant’s New Year’s Resolutions

In honor of the New Year, many of us will make resolutions to lose weight and go to the gym and spend more time with our families and all kinds of...

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