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Leadership, Management, and Coaching
Leadership, Management & Coaching: Every business leader - YOU - needs to wear each of these hats and to become very adept at knowing when, where and with whom to wear each one. What will make the biggest impact?
Punished by rewards
Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior. As part of my own development and in an attempt to keep my mind as open and fresh as possible, I take to reading all sorts of things. On my current reading list is a very interesting book called “Punished by Rewards” by Alfie Kohn, author, speaker and educator. He writes about the trouble with “gold stars, incentive plans, As, praise and other bribes”.
Fatigue is Costing Business Billions In Health-Related Lost Productivity
An Australian study has highlighted how fatigue has a large impact on our quality of life. Now a US study is showing how fatigue is costing billions by affecting the quality of your work...
Motivating Your Work Team Without The Hype And The Expense
How much more enjoyable would your work be if everyone was really motivated? How much more productive and profitable would it be for the company and its workers if everyone was motivated to do their best? Companies spend lots of time and expense recruiting outside speakers and consultants to motivate their workforce. Learn about a low-key and more low cost approach that ensures long-term motivation...
Workplace Communication And Management Communication Benefit From Writing Skills In Internal Newsletters
Newsletters directed at employee well-being, morale, cohesion and even an electronic flea market can be a very effective form of workplace communication and management communication. They can also be a forum for employees to show off their writing skills while they keep their colleagues informed about family news, recipes, social events and the business climate and official matters at work. You could announce business writing training or presentation skills training for employees who want to be more productive and position themselves for advancement.

Where does the passion go?
Many busy people in life lose the passion and joy they once had at work. In this insightful article Davdi Oliver explains one reason why, and, importantly, what to do about it. READ MORE...
Why Am I Here Doing This Job
In this inspiring article worklife expert David Oliver challenges us to ask why we are doing our current job
In-House Training – Getting to 99% attendance
Here’s how to get your training attendance up saving you both time and money and at the same time building your reputation as an in-house training department.
Daily Anxiety
For independent professionals who work alone, finding a way to handle isolation and daily axiety is key to sanity.
What Are You For?
Resist. Resist. Resist. That seems to be the congressional model these days. Whatever one party is for, the other is against. Before an idea makes it to the blogosphere, opposing party political pundits are railing against whatever approach or bill or stance was taken.

Entrepreneurs Education: Fast and Smart
Did you know that over 80% if all companies are privately held or family owned? Bet that means YOU! And did you know that almost 100% of the business growth in these times will be with companies having fewer than 200 employees. And the BIG question: did you know that unresolved workplace conflict is responsible for over 65% of all voluntary terminations in workplaces regardless of size?
I WANT IT AND I WANT IT NOW – The dilemma of employing Gen Y
This kind of thinking is probably what got us all into the terrible financial crisis that is raging across the world like some kind of out-of-control bush fire. The Wall Street credo that greed is good has rapidly become greed is very expensive. In this article though, I want to focus primarily on the habits and behaviours of what we know as the Gen Y kids, those born between 1979 and 1994.

Follow-Me Leaders
Winning philosophies drive successful leaders' behaviors, creating work groups, communities, schools, and homes where others thrive, differences are embraced, and ideas, productivity and excellence flourish. These follow-me leaders offer the why behind the what, give trust, and share knowledge openly.
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Emotional Intelligence is the number one predictor of professional success and personal excellence! Only part of our success in life can be attributed to intelligence. Other qualities: trust, integrity, authenticity, creativity, honesty, presence and resilience, are at least as important. These 'other intelligences' are collectively described as Emotional Intelligence. Unlike intelligence, the good news is that EQ can be learned or developed; it's not something you are stuck with. We can develop in ways that can improve our relationships, our workplaces, our parenting, and our classrooms. We could turn society on its ear if we learned to recognize our emotions and control our reactions; if we combined our thinking with our feelings; if we learned to channel our flow of feelings into creative expression, an expression of love.
Be Here Now
We're overloaded, overworked and over stimulated. Join Eileen as she discusses the four truths about time and offers some tips for staying sane and staying present despite our overwhelming schedules.
Uncovering Soul In The Workplace
The San Francisco Chronicle recently reported "soul is in". In a headline calling it "the buzzword of the '90s" a front-page story reported that some 322 citations for the word appear in the current edition of Books in Print.
Better Together
During the Beijing Olympics, beach volleyball players Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh were undefeated in their second gold medal Olympics, with an amazing record of 108 consecutive wins. Watching the advancing duo during the Olympic coverage, I heard commentators mention that when either woman was asked during interviews which one of them was better, they responded, "We're better together."
The Power of Positive New Employee Inductions
When a new staff member starts with your company, they are joining a dream, a hope of a great future and genuinely want to do the best they can for your company. How you treat the employee on their first day as part of their employee induction sets your relationship with them for the entire period they are with you.
As If They Were You
"Treat everybody else as if they were you." These words gave me pause. I wonder what it would be like if we each did what this "unknown author" is advocating?
Motivating the late, the lazy and the terminally uninspired
How to delegate while also growing your staff

Is Your Creativity Supported or Stifled at Work?
Creative expression should be honored and valued in the workplace.
Kept Waiting
People who are winning at working aren't playing the I-win-you-lose game, translated in this example as I-don't-want-to-wait-so-you-can. You see, for people who are winning at working, their perspective goes beyond themselves. These are the people whose consistent, everyday actions contribute to a better workplace and a better world.
Building a Skilled Workforce in Canada
Arupa Tesolin talks about the challenges of maintaining a skilled work-force in Canada and why we need to re-think the ready-employee and start training them again.
Bullies At Work
This article provides a definition of bullying, discusses the difference between bullying and harassment, provides tips on what to do if you suspect you are being bullied and for an organization to identify and deal with bullying, some statistics on bullying and the costs of bullying and links to further information.
Labor's Ten Minimum Standards
Federal Labor’s plan for a new industrial relations system includes a significant expansion in the number of minimum employment standards. At the time of the Workchoices changes in March 2006, the previous government introduced employment standards into federal law regarding hours of work, annual leave, personal/carers leave and parental leave.

Why Saying Well Done Works
We all like to be acknowledged, but for thousands, even millions of employees, such recognision never happens. From one day to the next, there are no positive messages for their contribution - yet as their boss, you can do this - and it will pay untold benefit for your business, organisation and, of course, you and your people.
4.4 Social dialogue and poverty reduction: Working Out of Poverty
Although fundamental principles and rights at work are an essential foundation for the governance of labour markets, they do not address all the issues of regulation needed to promote decent work. The governance of the labour market requires rules of various types to encourage working arrangements that are both efficient and fair.
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.

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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.
The Whole Person
Henry Ford is reported to have quipped, "Why is it that I always get the whole person when what I really want is a pair of hands?" The 21st century version doesn't sound quite like that, but its essence prevails in plenty of workplaces.
Conflict: The Calm and Confident Approach to Success
Conflict is an ever-present feature of workplaces. When it is destructive, it is invariably because the participants don't know they have options. This article shows you the 7 options you always have in conflict.
From Radicals to Retirees
This article, published in the June edition of Winning Workplaces, will help you discover proactive ways to address the impact of the loss of boomer employees and ways to meet the needs of workers over 50.

5S Applied to the CEO Role
We’ve taken the 5S concept and philosophy that is traditionally applied to workplaces, shop floors and operations and applied it to the role of the CEO and to the performance improvement of the enterprise.
Are You Spying on Your Employees?
As more workplaces gain better access to the Internet, employees are spending more time at work surfing or handling personal mail. Should you monitor their Web activity, or not?
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!
Negativity is Like a Cancer
Negativity is evident in many workplaces, and it really saps the energy of an organization. I believe negativity is like a disease that will spread if not managed well. The analogy is developed in this article along with several antidotes to negativity.

Entrepreneurs Education: Fast and Smart
Did you know that over 80% if all companies are privately held or family owned? Bet that means YOU! And did you know that almost 100% of the business growth in these times will be with companies having fewer than 200 employees. And the BIG question: did you know that unresolved workplace conflict is responsible for over 65% of all voluntary terminations in workplaces regardless of size?
Procrastination: Productivity Paralyzer or Power House?
Workplaces breed procrastinators, because procrastination works two times out of three. What's going on? What can you do about it? Whose at fault?

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