Ten Commandments of Effective Communication

This articles focuses on the critical success factors which are crucial in communication between people or interpersonal communication. Six characteristics of good communicators are discussed followed by the commandments of effective communication.

Plant The Culture Seed In The Right Place

Making your company culture understood, accessable, and transmitted to all the stakeholders requires nurturing and preparing the groundwork. Sow the seed well and it will bear delicious fruit.

Cubicle Sweet Cubicle: How to Make Your Workspace More Appealing

Just about anyone who's ever worked in a cubicle would agree that they're often depressing, with their neutral color faux walls, confined space, and the general feeling of isolation that they engender. Still, there are ways to make even the blandest, smallest cubicle more appealing while maintaining a professional work environment.

Corporate Wellness - the Key to Corporate Success

What have sickness, recuperation, rest, mindset, humour, energy and diet got to do with companies? These are terms applicable in physical wellness but they are equally relevant in the context of corporate wellness.

Hazard Communication Basics Part 3 - Chemicals and Labels

In this article we discuss hazardous chemicals and the labelling requirements as set forth by OSHA.

Working With Dominant People

Dealing with dominant people can be difficult, but it doesn't have to be. It's not so much about managing them as it is about managing your own tendencies. The tendency of most people is to avoid dominant people and then complain to others. This does not work. Instead be clear, honest, and straight forward. An understanding of how dominant people function will help you gain influence.

Transforming Organizational Conflict Into Enterprise Growth

Occasional conflict is a fact of organizational life. There are a variety of reasons why it arises, many of which are normal and natural. However, left unaddressed and unmanaged, conflict will increase business risk and financial loss as well as reduce work performance quality. In circumstances of prolonged tension, employees’ vision becomes myopic and their view of the organization’s future (and their own future with the organization) becomes blurred. Shortsighted decision making and reactive defensive behaviors damage the company’s ability to achieve long-term goals. With all of these harmful ramifications of something that inevitably occurs in every organization, it behooves leaders to identify all current intrinsic environmental and behavioral factors that contribute to the periodic occurrence of disharmony. Only when you thoroughly and completely understand the systemic sources of disputes throughout your organization can you craft thorough, complete and enduring resolutions to conflicts that will at the same time strengthen the relationship bonds among all affected personnel.

Good Communicators Manage their Body Language

In this article, six dimensions of body language are discussed. Managing these dimensions of body language is very important in order to become a good communicator. Ten positive body language habits of highly effective communicators are also presented.

4 Ways to Discourage Violence in the Workplace

Workplace violence is a serious offense. Unfortunately, it is becoming more of an epidemic. Finding ways to decrease the chances of violence in the workplace is very important.

How You Can Leverage Conference Call Services To Save You a Bundle In Communication Costs

There are more than a couple ways to communicate with your clients and associates across the globe. But what is the most affordable and effective? Will you be surprised if you need to find a new service provider?

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?

Posture Knee Office Chairs and How they can Help Your Back at Work

I have been asked many times by my customers over the years about how the posture knee office chairs can help ergonomically. With the kneeling style of chair becoming quite popular recently, employees have heard about them from friends or other employees at the office. Although not simple, the answer can be stated shortly in that “it helps the body take the correct position while sitting to reduce stress on the lower lumbar (back) region”.

Workplace Communication – how to motivate all the members of your team

Have you ever wanted to gain your group’s attention but found that no-one was listening? Are some of your team less willing to follow directions than others? Perhaps they are motivated by different things. By identifying this and adjusting your language you can begin to motivate all of your team.

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!