Workplace Meetings: A Magical Strategy for Greater Attendee Participation
The biggest complaint organizational leaders and managers have regarding workplace meetings is that attendees do not participate verbally and sit in silence even after asked for feedback or input.
This would be accepted by the meeting’s leader if the meeting wasn’t followed by individuals commenting between each other, or complaining directly to the meeting’s leader …
How Workplace Happiness Affects Your Paycheck
Studies have shown that when we are happy at work, we are smarter, more motivated, more competitive and, thus more successful. While it’s widely known that overall fulfillment allows us to enjoy more meaningful relationships and better health, few understand that it impacts a paycheck… significantly.
The Correlation Between Success and HappinessThere is a …
Keep Me Honest
When I make a commitment to you I will do everything in my power to make it happen.
However, Please, Please, Please … feel free to remind me.
Send me a note with a reminder of the things I committed to do.
Does this mean I’m lazy?
I hope that’s not what you take from …
What Connections Help Build Community Around Your Brand
It’s no secret that in the workplace, communication plays a major role in the productivity of the workforce. Where people are able to communicate and share thoughts and ideas freely, the quality of results increases significantly. You need to foster that sort of communication with people outside the workplace. The magic lies in diversifying the …
Vitality Drives Healthy Business
A common topic among experienced entrepreneurs is that of “burnout”. The question becomes, have you truly burned out or do you simply need to rest and regroup?
Frequently, when big projects are completed and the frenzy dies down, this is when the idea of burnout hits. It’s the roller coaster ride of entrepreneurship hitting the …
How Social Media Has Transformed Talent Acquisition
A SHRM Discussion With Will Staney
Recruiting has evolved.
What used to be a world consumed by job boards, applications, automation and job hunters is now a place of social recruiting – one where referrals, analytics and integrated recruiting rule. Candidate expectations have shifted drastically, too. Today, 47% of workers were born after 1980. And …
Workplace Communications – Generational Differences
Workplace communications has changed dramatically in my lifetime.
When I started working as a programmer in Chicago in the mid 1970s, I had a phone on my desk. If I wanted to talk to my boss, I would call him and his secretary would often answer his phone. If he was not there, she would …
5 Ways To Prepare For Your Vacation
With summer underway, it’s time to reconsider ignoring that vacation time that you think you don’t need. According to the Glassdoor Employment Confidence Survey (Q1 14), the average U.S. employee only takes half (51%) of his or her eligible vacation time. Some are able to cash in their time off and work through the year, …
Hot Water and Stretching are Good for You
Besides the obvious uses for hot water and stretching in your personal and physical life, there are business and career benefits from both too.
Two of my favorite metaphors involve both of these points. They involve Hot Water and Stretching and when applied to your career will help you stand out, get ahead and to …
New Perspective Brings Improved Days
The sun was streaming through the window to suggest that negotiation and a willingness to consider a new perspective applies to both personal and business life. Your personal life provides insights for how to conduct business better and experience in business provides realization of how to negotiate better on the personal side, too.
For years …