workplace

Like this article? PLEASE +1 it!

workplace Tagged Articles

Having Fun at Work
Where is it written that to be productive a work environment must be oppressive? Nowhere! In fact, the best organizations are ones where there is a lot of enjoyment and just plain fun. The top 100 companies to work for in the US have all figured it out. This article discusses some of the dynamics of fun in the workplace.

Cupid in the Workplace
Do you allow romance in the workplace? According to SHRM, 72% of companies surveyed have NO written policy regarding dating in the workplace. But at the same time, SHRM also found that 66% of the employees surveyed know of a relationship that developed at work. Has your organization addressed this issue? Where do you stand?

Arthritis is Not Caused by Old Age

Arthritic aches and pains are a major issue in our ageing workforce. According to Professor Paul Hodges from University of Queensland's School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences body aches, pains and injuries are the second most expensive cause of lost productivity at work and health care expenditure. Only cardiovascular disease costs our society more. If arthritis was caused by old age, as implied by many welll-meaning physicians, surely all of our body would be worn out to the same degree because it's all the same age.

5 Ways to Get Engaged at Work

While some of us really do meet the love of our life at work, this is not about that. This is about an engineering type of being engaged; like the gears in a machine that fit together and make things run smoothly. Lots of recent articles I've seen on various blogs have been about friends working together. The big question is: is it better for friends to work together or be in separate areas of the company? I have 5 ways to make that happen.

5 Ways to Limit Workplace Frustration

Make a list of the things that annoy you most at work. I bet they would include things we could all classify as "petty". Many of us often compartmentalize and say they are not bothered. Others, more often than not, will want to discuss with a friend yet never go directly to the person or persons that caused the upset. Our past experiences pop up to haunt us in a thousand small ways and rarely are we prepared to see what is super old, and what is from just today. This article has 5 ways to limit the frustration in the workplace.

Orient Yourself Towards Others And Relieve Pressure In The Workplace
Do you orient yourself towards others or yourself? To inspire trust and innovation, it is obvious which type of person is most successful.

Addressing the gender in -balance in leadership
Do you remember the saying, “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”? We all know that men and women are different. While acknowledging that the early feminists made great strides to improve a woman’s lot it is now time to dispense with the rivalry. The focus needs to be on how men and women can work along side one another in the work place, and how they can embrace diversity.

Are you employing “Happy Campers” or “Grumpy Grouchs”?
We hear a lot about diversity in the Press. What a great country Australia is for embracing all our different cultures and promoting “a fair go”! But diversity at work means a different thing. How good are you at recognising diversity amongst your staff? Do you know what their strengths and abilities are? Can you get the best out of them, thus enabling the business to grow and prosper?

The Ole Boy Network Still Has Teeth
I'm not a sexist, and I'm not a bra-burning feminist. I am a realist. That's why I can say that the ole boy network still unequivocally affects relationship building in the corporate hallowed halls ... not so much in the entrepreneurial ranks.

How Professional Is Your Image???

It is infinitely important that we embrace women who are on all levels of life's "playing field." Women bring a fresh perspective that can hep companies identify shifting paradigms and shift their priorities accordingly. Women's participative, supportive ways of leading are the ways needed in a workplace of well-educated technical and professional employees. With that in mind let us understand how important outward impression and image is as it relates to moving ahead in the business world.

Three Persuasive Language Techniques
People often mistake 'persuasiveness' with either speaking more loudly or more passionately. Tone and volume certainly play a role in the impact of the things you say - sometimes positive, sometimes negative, but the most effective way to improve your persuasiveness is to employ some simple, but powerful language strategies.

Three Ways to Reduce Workplace Stress
Do you feel as though the stress levels in your workplace seem to have escalated over the last ten years or so? I don't think it's your imagination.

Workplace Coaching: Selecting a Coach
When choosing a coach for your employees, you have before you a number of options. Selecting the wrong coach can lead to disaster. Use the pointers in this article to help you decide on who would make an effective coach in your workplace.

Improve Your Training Sessions with the Five Rights of Training
All trainers need to take stock occasionally of how they are going. Are your training sessions as effective as they could be? Use these Five Rights of training to help you review where your training programs could be missing the mark.

Change Leadership: The Keys to Success

Responding to and initiating change in today’s organization is a prerequisite to maintaining or gaining competitive advantage. Yet many organizations fail in bringing about worthwhile change. If you are tasked with leading a change initiative in your organization, then this article is essential reading. Leslie Allan provides a starkly honest and compelling overview of what it takes to be a change champion in today’s business environment.

Training Employees: Stop Wasting Your Money
You send your people on expensive training courses. Yet your business performance does not seem to improve. Your problem may lie in how you look at training. This article considers two popular views of how training works. Hold the outdated view and you will continue to lose money on training. Act on the enlightened view and your business and people will prosper. Which view do you hold?

The Workplace 2020
I cannot believe that I am writing anything about the year 2020. It almost sounds like a science fiction movie title and yet it is only ten short years away. I say "short" because this past decade flew by at an inconceivable pace in my own mind. The reality of the present is that 2020 is just around the corner and the corner is getting closer as we speak.

5 Steps to Creating a Successful Workplace

A successful workplace that fosters productivity and the growth of its employees is accomplished by implementing five fundamental elements: goal setting, rewards, balance, accountability and feedback. While each element can be implemented on its own, administering all elements as a complete program or initiative in the workplace will work towards producing the desired results that are sought after by managers and executives.

Communication Styles in the Workplace: Goals vs. Flow
It’s a classic case of a “hired gun” brought in to save a failing company-blocked by managers opposed to drastic change. It’s also a classic case of the Goals Perceptual Style versus the Flow Style.

How to get rid of the employee that doesn’t fit

He was tall, dark and handsome and a great lover. From the outside, he appeared to be the ideal date and partner. But after 3 months of living together, Jenny realised that her ideal mate was less than ideal. Whilst he could turn on a charming personality, he liked drinking with the boys each night while she preferred walks in the country. She liked a tidy house and he preferred to live in a mess. Like Jenny, have you ever hired someone who appeared to have all their technical skills for the job, but when put in the work environment turned out to be a complete nightmare? Maybe their CV read perfectly but they did not live up to their billing? If so, read on.

Coaching In The Workplace
Actually coaching in the workplace helps to manage the most prized resource within the organization and that is the human resource. If human resources are well looked after then all other resources such as raw materials, capital, land, etc can be well maintained and be used optimally. However the opposite is also true. If you do not manage your people well, then the end result will be chaos.

Entrepreneur Development: What to Give Your Staff:
Leadership education is not simply a cookbook list of "how to's".

What's Fair or Not at Work?

Have you ever been treated unfairly at work? Were you ever asked to do more than your fair share? Have you gone above and beyond all reasonable requests, doing an exemplary job and getting no recognition? That is how Joelle saw her job. She worked harder than any of her peers, in fact she even picked up the boss' cleaning on her way into work one day. Not that he demanded it, it was just on the road to work and he was saying he needed a certain suit for an important meeting. Did he thank her? Well, he said, "Hey I appreciate that" and then went about his day. She was bummed. He could have at least given her some time off for having to make the stop. She told others she was sure that no matter how hard she worked she would never, ever get the praise that was due her.

Boundaries and standards: why you need both in your business and how to set them
Why is it that some teenagers are good academically and never get into trouble whereas others are the opposite? Similarly, why is it that some employees go the extra mile and are worth their weight in gold, whereas others turn up late and perform poorly? It’s no coincidence that work performance goes hand in hand with conduct and I’ll explain why.

Does the Younger Generation Think We are the Idiots?

We have all had an idiot for a boss at some point in our lives. For some of us that pain is a present reality and for others it is a painful memory. And, for others the experience is yet to come. And if you ask the younger workers today, the disease is more prevalent in the workplace than we like to admit. The new worker of today's high-technology work force seems to resist being led by many of the traditional, short-term focused managers and supervisors in the workplace today.

Business Leadership: Why Spirit has a Place in the Workplace
People often forget that leadership is equal parts heart and mind. You cannot be a great leader if you do not nurture your spirit. Leaders with a strong sense of spirit create a powerful trickledown effect in the business that is reflected in the culture of their organization in a positive way based on integrity, authenticity and community.

Finding Fun In Your Workplace
Fun and workplace - not two words you often find together in the same sentence. Find out why and how you should use them together in your company.

Mediocrity at Work

Mediocrity can be seen as the decision to produce an inferior to middling performance. Take a moment to reflect on your Company and notice what efforts are made regarding pride in performance and attitude to work in general. If you are noticing that your team seem happy to accept that: • Okay is good enough, or that • Some effort is better than none - or even that; • We’re okay as long as we break even You could be part of a growing number of companies and corporations who are experiencing the ‘Mediocre Phenomenon’.

Bullying - From The Playground To The Workplace

Workplace bullying is prevelent in the United States. It is evidence of an empathy discorder because bullying is aggressive behavior that is intended to cause humiliation, physical or emotion pain, or diminishment to another person or group of people. It results in the abusive treatment of others and almost always involves an imblance of power. This article discusses the steps to take and the consequences of exposing bullying in the workplace.

Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself: Emotional Contagion in the Workplace
Read how Steve Bartman, emotional contagion and your workplace are all related.

Handling Change in the Workplace: Logical versus Emotional Reactions

People need time and support to adjust both logically and emotionally to change. This article explains how change can impact on staff and provides keys to help them adapt and settle into the new environment. Change can be positive if handled well or a recipe for disaster if handled poorly. Through the use of a case study, the pitfalls and negative impacts are discussed; then follows some pointers for managing change in the workplace and a practical method for accepting change on a more personal level.

Workforce/Workplace Forecast
Our annual look at what's on the horizon for 2012

Increasing Numbers of Women Graduates
What does the increasing percentages of women graduates mean for business?

Community Colleges receive Funds for Job-Training Programs
Community colleges understand the needs of local employers.

Increasing Workplace Stress is Hazardous to Health
Employees are working longer hours and enjoying it less.

How to Prevent Discrimination in the Workplace
Some important tips for entrepreneurs to know how to follow the law when it comes to discrimination in the workplace.

“Strategic Business Tips On How To Achieve Civility In Today’s Workplace, From Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach”

Today’s workplace is very dynamic, sometimes very stressful, and too often not very civil. We certainly observe the lack of civility in the workplace with people calling each other names, engaging in personal attacks on each other, exhibiting rude and disruptive behaviors and the lack of respect for one another or ignorance of how behaviors affect others. I believe there is a real desire for the restoration of civility in the workplace. Your strategic thinking business coach offers some tips on how to achieve civility in today’s workplace.

“Symptoms That Confirm Your Decision To Look For A New Job, From Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach”

I have heard that people leave or fire management, not the company where they worked. And you probably have heard people say they love what they do but hate where they work. There are many things occurring in today’s workplaces that are depressing, disruptive, disturbing and dysfunctional. How can you determine when it is time to look for a new job and quit the old job? Your strategic thinking business coach believes there are several symptoms that confirm it is time to leave. Here are ten (10) of those symptoms.

Managing A 'People' Company: Beyond A Workplace of Robots
At good workplaces, it's common to hear employees talk about working in "a people-oriented company," or to hear them say, "They treat you like a human being around here." Or, "You feel like you can be yourself." Employees of good workplaces assume that it's a normal part of their working environment to feel like a human being.

Great Places To Work For

If we ask a random sample of employees in any organization what causes them to like to stay with their the organization, we will get tens of different reasons that are all valid, but vary to reflect the personal views of the respondents. While some employees will focus on tangible explicit motivators, others will focus more on intangible implicit ones. That's, too, is natural as people's motives are driven by their different needs which again vary from one person to the other.

Happiness Starts At The Workplace

Is there a way we can convince ourselves that we are happy? How about the pressures of personal, family, and work pressures? Which of these contribute the biggest pressures on us? The problem here seems to be that the time we spend at work is in average twice the time we spend with our families and friends, and that the pressures we suffer from in the workplace continues to take hold of us even after we leave the workplace. Thus, our personal life is both affected and controlled by our work life.

Happiness Starts At The Workplace

HRM and the Quality of Work-life

Coercion in the workplace can certainly get things done. It can even yield more productivity in some cases. This type of ‘direct action management’, i.e. ‘kicking’ people to do what is required of them. Such an approach to motivation would be like kicking a dog each time you want it to move. Likewise, you can charge an individual’s battery, and keep on charging and recharging it to get things done, but it is only when that individual has his own generator that we can talk about ‘self-motivation’, the internal generator that automatically recharges employees batteries.

Other workplace Related Articles

“Strategic Business Tips On How To Achieve Civility In Today’s Workplace, From Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach”

Conflicts in the Workplace: Top 10 Workplace Dysfunctions - And How to TERMINATE Them
Purge your workplace of dysfunctional behavior and you will terminate all workplace conflicts and improve your organization's productivity...

How To Stop Workplace Bullying...And It Has Nothing To Do With The Bully
Efforts to curb workplace bullying have focussed on changing the behaviour of the bullies in the workplace. A more effective way would be to modify the behaviour of the victims in the workplace...

Protect your Workplace from the Violence and Murder of Annie Le at Yale University

Employers need to protect their workplaces from instances of workplace violence. The recent murder of Annie Le at Yale University is just the most recent in a rash of incidents of workplace violence that occur daily across the country. This article helps employers learn important steps to protect against violence in their workplace. It also provides information on the warning signs of workplace violence and resources for employees that may be prone to workplace violence. Despite statistics showing huge increases in incidents of workplace violence, most employers fail to take the basic necessary steps to prevent workplace violence including having a workplace violence seminar and providing workplace violence prevention training. This article provides employers with the basic steps they can take to prevent workplace violence today.

MISSED WARNING SIGNS OF WORKPLACE VIOLENCE IN FORT HOOD AND ORLANDO SHOOTINGS

The tragedy at Fort Hood and the mass shootings the following day in Orlando demonstrate all too vividly how missed warning signs can lead to violence in the workplace. Perhaps if the warning signs present in both of these cases had been noticed by those involved these unfortunate incidents of workplace violence could have been avoided. Employers need to be aware of what the warning signs are and how to handle them. They also need to draft workplace violence prevention policies as well as provide workplace violence prevention training to their employees. The training will help employees understand what they should be on the lookout for, the resources in the workplace that can help employees who demonstrate the warning signs and methods to make the workplace safer for all employees.

WORKPLACE VIOLENCE: EMPLOYERS NEED TO BE BETTER PREPARED

Employers today are not prepared for instanced of workplace violence in their workplaces. They need to understand that this is where they need to put their training efforts and resources in coming months as more and more instances of workplace violence arise. Employers need to understand that they can be held liable for negligent hiring and negligent retention of employees who engage in workplace violence. Employers need to recognize that the way to prevent instances of workplace violence and to protect their workplaces is to provide training to both managers and employees on the warning signs of workplace violence as well as methods to avoid workplace violence in their workplaces. Employers need to be more proactive and provide workplace violence prevention training today!

The Secret to Resolving Workplace Conflicts
During a workplace conflict, it's human nature to assume the problem is the other person. Here's why that isn't the case - and how to keep workplace conflict from turning into workplace combat.

The Electronic Workplace

BlackBerries, Iphones, laptop computers, Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter. These are just a handful of the everyday technology advances impacting most every avenue of life, including the workplace. Along with technological advances in hardware systems, the social networking boom is changing the productivity of the workplace. In today's issue, Astronology reviews some of the many advantages and disadvantages of a more electronic workplace.

TWO LESSONS LEARNED FOR EMPLOYERS FROM MANCHESTER, CT SHOOTING

Today employers had an opportunity to witness first hand another instance of workplace violence. This one occurred in Manchester, CT where an African-American employee who had complained about racial harassment in the workplace, went on a shooting spree against his co-workers when his employer asked him to resign. Employers need to learn how to better prepare for instances of workplace violence when they discipline employees. Employers also need to better understand their legal obligations with regard to complaints of unlawful harassment in the workplace. Hopefully, today’s tragedy can help employers understand that they need to be better prepared and take action to prevent instances of workplace violence in their workplaces.

Mentoring is the Answer to Diversity Initiatives in your Organization
The workplace is becoming more diverse every day; and, it’s important to see these differences as an asset, not a liability. Mentoring creates a more positive environment in the workplace for both employees and management.

Featured Article

Top Reasons for Buying a Franchise

by: Sarah Snyder, Franchise Opportunities

Trending Articles

Build Your List with Joint Venture Giveaway Events

May 2012 Top 100 Social Media Experts to Follow on Twitter

What to measure to be phenomenally successful in business

10 mistakes of media relations

Making Money Blogging Can Be Tons Of Fun

Newsletter

Get advice & tips from famous business
owners, new articles by entrepreneur
experts, my latest website updates, &
special sneak peaks at what's to come!

Popular Articles

Unharnessing Creativity in Business

Death by Micromanagement

Suggestions

Email us your ideas on how to make our
website more valuable! Thank you Sharon
from Toronto Salsa Lessons / Classes for
your suggestions to make the newsletter
look like the website and profile younger
entrepreneurs like Jennifer Lopez.