Make Your Feedback Constructive, Not Combative

How to give feedback to employees is one of the most frequent issues that my coaching clients raise. Usually the situation is framed as dealing with a problem employee – someone who won’t listen, doesn't follow instructions, or isn't careful with his or her work. Often the real problem is a manager who is not giving clear, actionable feedback about their expectations and the behaviors that need to change.

Laughter Makes the Workplace Lighter

Did you know that the average preschooler laughs or smiles 400 times a day? That number drops to 15 by the time people are 35 yrs. old. Isn’t it amazing what stress and too much responsibility can do? So who says that work always has to be serious?

Working With Volunteer Help

If your organization uses or depends on volunteers, then you have many challenges. We need volunteers and people want to feel needed. It is a wonderful and rare thing when two needs can be satisfied at the same time.

Jest Practices: Best Practices for Humor in the Workplace

Although humor in the workplace can have beneficial effects, yet not all humor is good humor. However the challenge is to interject appropriate humor & fun into our serious jobs without hurting others or seriously undermining the company.

Laugh and the Work World Laughs With You

Stress abounds today's work environment-moody bosses & co-workers, repetitive tasks & unpredictable market pressures. Humor can help maintain a healthy balance between the pressure & seriousness which comes from high stakes jobs & a competitive marketplace.

Office Romance: Affairs at the Workplace

Contrary to conventional wisdom, and despite the danger of sexual harassment, there’s a lot of loving going on in the office. The warming of the workplace reflects a much more wide-scale upheaval in the ways we work

Is Your Company's Stress Management Program Stressful in Itself?

Some simple advice — and pass-along strategies — for reducing stress in the workplace.

Corporate Holiday Gift Ideas

In the business and working world, there are several occasions that call for the purchase of a corporate holiday gift. There’s nothing better than knowing, as a worker, that your boss appreciates you. This is also true when it comes to valued customers.

Cubicles Today: Applications and Trends

We take a look at how employees' needs are changing the cubicle landscape in the 21st century. We also offer tips for businesses transitioning their staff from a traditional workplace into a modern, cubicle-filled one.

Think Local, Act Global

Organizations with subsidiaries around the globe know the pitfalls of not observing appropriate behaviour when dealing with the locals of their various markets. Losing their market share without implementing effective measures is one of the unfortunate consequences. Moreover, it is a common fallacy to presume that all Asians share exact same mentality, practices and religion because they all look the same.

Laughter and Fun are the Best Medicine for Companies

To have a really happy workforce, you got to do more than pass out bonuses and angpows. You need to make work fun. Science opens to us the book of nature, while laughter and fun open the doors to human creativity.

Joy on the Job - Meet Your Needs!

Achieve joy on the job by capturing the attention and resources you need. Discover a communication style that will boost your happiness at work by snaring new opportunities, allies, and prospects.

Keep Meetings Focused

All of us go to meetings regularly and have experienced long, drawn out meetings where issues are discussed inefficiently at best. Meetings do not have to be like that. Here are some of tips to make meetings more proactive, productive, and efficient.