In America, Back Pain is Epidemic, Office Chairs and Seating Play a Role

Today’s problem with ergonomic office chairs some say, is that we have been forced into a “table and chair” culture where many of our daily tasks take place in this right angled and seated position. This sort of sitting can force the body into a slumped or “c” shaped position putting uneven pressure on the vertebral disks and muscles of the lower back. With time and being seated in your office chair over long periods each day, the spine can become deformed and erode disks, making it hard to retrain to the proper posture for sitting in your ergonomic chair.

How To Beat Office Politics

Would you believe it? In The Times of London on a management and business page there was a write up with photograph of a chap who coaches people in how to succeed at office politics. I only glanced at the article but it stayed with me.

Communication - Body Language - 5 Top Tips

You'd think that talking to people face to face would be by far the easiest way to communicate, wouldn't you, and that can be true. But did you know that according to Professor Albert Mehrabian only 7% of the actual words we speak make up the communication, with 38% being the way we say what we say, and a massive 55% body language.

Ask a Simple Question, Get Everything But the Answer

Has it ever happened that you ask someone, what seems to be a simple question, and they don’t seem to be able to give you a straight answer? Do you wonder if you are not communicating clearly?

Color Your World to Productivity

The color of your surroundings can effect your productivity at work.

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.

Workplace Communication – Is Your Language Clean?

Workplace communication is not always easy - have you had the experience of attempting to explain something to a member of staff and nothing seemed to be going in? Have you delivered an instruction to someone and they did the complete opposite? You may need to clean up your language!

Audio Conferencing Technology 101

Teleconferencing is a communications service which is now being used extensively in the business world. Here's a brief explanation of how this technology works.

Say Goodbye to Why and Try

The words we use make a huge difference in manner we communicate. Why and Try are useless words. Strike them from you vocabulary and improve your relationships.

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.

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.

Definition of Cognitive Learning

What is cognitive awareness? What do people mean by cognitive learning? Cognitive Learning is a term that is often used in the academic arena but more recently it has started to pop up in the business world.

Web Conferencing Software - What Does It Do

Web conferencing allows you to start or attend a meeting without being physically present. To do this, a web conference software is needed. But what does a web conference software do and what can you do with it?