How to Increase Productivity When Managing Multiple Disciplines

If your computer is infected with a virus you might have to restore your data at one moment in time. This is like going back in time. Time you could have spend on production. There are other incidents that require you to go back from where you came from. A nuisance if your time is limited...

The High Cost of Poor Listening

There are no shortcuts to becoming a great listener and the price tag for poor listening is high. Listening well can cut down on misunderstandings, miscues, damaged relationships, missed opportunity and disagreements while building strong alliances, increasing knowledge and delivering better results faster.

4 Problem Personality Types All Professionals Must Learn to Deal With

Sometimes personalities clash, and when they do it becomes difficult to remain professional and continue to work effectively. Dealing with these 4 personality types presents an ongoing challenge, but one that must be mastered in order to be truly successful.

Are You Wasting Your Money on Diversity Training?

You may be wasting your money if you haven't done any foundation building. If diversity and inclusion are not first integrated into your business strategy, very little will change just by holding one or two day training classes. Organizations in all sectors make this mistake and don't realize it until it is too late.

Six Steps to Effective Meetings

Most people in medium and large businesses, government, non-profits and other organizations spend the majority of their time in meetings. This article discussed six steps that anyone can take to make meetings more productive.

Keeping Colleagues Happy With Birthday Ecards

Sending birthday ecards to colleagues to express your friendship and care, is one of the easiest ways to show your warmth and feelings for them.

Increasing Retention, Warding Off the Cost of Attrition

For several years, industry experts have warned of a pending retention crisis and the need to have a retention plan in place. How prepared is your organization?

Workplace Fireworks: How to Know When Conflict Is Destructive

Not all workplace conflict is a problem. Organizations and individuals who know how to tap the potential in conflict can build some of the most thriving workplaces. In this article, learn the difference between constructive and destructive workplace conflict, and what to do when the fireworks are a real problem.

More on Difficult Discussions at Work: Planning Your Approach

There's a lot to think about when you need to initiate a difficult interaction -- the kind of discussion that is required when a colleague is taking credit for your ideas, is not delivering on their part or is just plain making you look bad.

The Art of Listening

Good listening is not just looking at someone and nodding your head in agreement. You have to acknowledge what is being said and let the other person know that you understand. The more you can acknowledge what is being said, the greater ability you have to persuade and influence. Why? Because the person speaking with you will feel important and understood (Law of Esteem). Why is listening so difficult for most of us? Why is it that when two people get together and talk, they both walk away with two completely different views about the conversation?

Personality Test - Are You Liked By Your Co-workers?

You must be aware of somebody in your office that is not liked by many of you. But that person is unaware of that. No body wants to tell him/her on their face about what they don't like in that person. Are you also one such person who is not liked by some co-workers?

Put An Executive Summary to Work - and Make Sure it Gets Read!

Time, time, time. Consider these numbers: the average executive spends 22 percent writing and reading memos, reports, letters. That equals eleven workweeks. And they are spending over 50 percent of their time either reading your communication or responding to it! So if you want the big cheese to read your report, make certain that your executive summary—written for that decision maker—sings. Here are the details.

Employee Computer Time Clocks

Employee time clocks are used by many organizations to help keep track of employee hours for payroll purposes. The clock systems include standard mechanical time clocks, electronic time card style systems, freestanding polling, and memory-based clocks. Employee computer time clocks comprise systems replacing the punch-card time clocks in industries. Also known as “time and attendance systems,” they provide numerous benefits to both large and small companies.

Preventing the Danger and Liability of Workplace Violence

Discussing the benefits of proper behavioral analysis and threat assessment in the workplace. Reducing liability by recognizing risk factors and putting proper means of prevention in place.

Why Good Advice is Hurting Your Productivity and What To Do About It

Although usually given with the best intentions, advice always reflects the needs, experiences, and now science tells us, the thought process, of the giver. More often than not, the needs of giver and receiver don’t match, creating frustration all around. Instead, some well-chosen questions can inspire creative insights that the logical analysis of a problem can’t.