How I Used Humor to Survive and Thrive In Today’s Competitive Business Environment!

I recently found myself being burned out at work and so I decided to instill some much needed HUMOR into my personal and professional life.

Your Organization On The Couch

Take a moment and think about the following diseases; depression, paranoia, schizophrenic, dramatic or compulsive. If you do not come up with an example, you could think about Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson in “As Good as it gets”):

Managing Strategies For Telework - The Virtual Workforce

The freedom and independence of working from home for professionals can be the Christmas Wish that finally came to be. This absolute desire to Telework requires managing strategies that adapt for the virtual workforce.

Working with Foreign Cultures

Cultures differ in how they communicate, how they use their time, and how they view themselves in terms of empowerment and decision making. These differences are likely to become apparent in business sessions with people from other countries.

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.

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.

Ten Tips to Avoid Problems at the Employer's Christmas Party

Boozy brawls, festive flirting and festering finger-food are creating a legal minefield for employers, making the office bash one of the most risky corporate events of the year. But rather than scrap the party all together, here are the Top Ten Tips to help bosses host a safe celebration.

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

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.

Communicating Emotionally Difficult Information

Nine steps you can use when it's time to say something sensitive or potentially upsetting to someone you work with.

Communicating Better At Work

Employees often show concern about the quality and quantity of communication at work.

Active Listening

Often times people assume that listening is the same as hearing; that is instinctive. Unfortunately, because of this false misconception, little effort is made to develop effective listening skills.

Air Conditioning, Is It Really Necessary?

No modern office building in most major cities of the world can afford to exclude summer air conditioning from their premises. Air conditioning provides the necessary environment that is conducive to good working conditions.

Important Uses Of Stickers And Labels In Your Business

The use of adhesive labels offers more benefits if people would only view it differently. Aside from a professional looking system, the image of file storage and retrieval becomes a whole lot easier in a sense.

Business Motivation

Motivation can have different kinds because of various sides of human nature.