I worked all my life and never really understood the passion thing until later on. I had great jobs, I did great work, but I was not passionate. I started … Read more
Transforming Your Workplace: How to Move it From Easy to Meaningful
My wife is a strong, upbeat woman who rarely complains. However, one evening at dinner I could tell something was really bothering her and I pressed her … Read more
Respect: The Challenges Instilling It in Your Younger Employees
By Eric Chester Every relationship at every job needs to start with the employee giving respect rather than setting out to earn it immediately. As … Read more
Bad Equation: No Recognition = Lost Productivity & Lowered Performance
In a guest post on the Great Leadership Blog, Dr. Paul White (coauthor of The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace), offered these statistics (I … Read more
Weekly Wrap: Do Real Managers Really Resist the Urge to Fire?
As a long-time manager, I’ve written a lot about how firing an employee is one of the toughest and most difficult things a manager ever has to do. … Read more
Tired of Poor Performance Appraisals? Survey Shows Most Workers Are, Too
You probably know about the current state of employee engagement today. Just about every survey you see says it’s pretty bad. We also see findings in … Read more
The Impact Financial Stress Has on Employees and Workplace Productivity
Stress is a part of life and isn’t necessarily a good or bad thing. Personally, I prefer less stress. But, in small doses stress can help us perform better … Read more
Are You Ready (and Willing) to Ban Email From Your Workplace?
I missed this story last week, and I’m sorry I did because it is one of those shortsighted workplace edicts that drives me nuts. According to … Read more
The Employee Engagement Trap: Why Giving More Eventually Gets You Less
There is an interesting psychological phenomenon that happens when you do something over and over. It’s called “decline effect.” Decline effect, simply, is … Read more
Dealing With Brain Drain: Sometimes, People Just Have to Move On
Brain drain can have all kinds of interesting imagery associated with it but I don’t imagine the folks at Yahoo were too pleased about seeing their … Read more