Why are you so busy? Do you really have too much work? Is work so important to you that you’ll sacrifice just about anything in your life to get the job done? Even if it’s at the expense of your health and your relationships? Stress in the workplace can be caused by many factors, however from my experience I’ve found for many people it is their inability to organise themselves and their time. They also have difficulty saying ‘no’. Or worse still, you may be a work addict.
How Behavioural Styles Affect Workplace Performance
If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be? Or, if you were a colour, do you think you’d be red? Maybe blue, yellow or green? Weird questions? Not to Human Resources (HR) professionals. These are exactly the kinds of questions they might ask to determine the “type” of behavioural style you have as an employee.
Workplace Rescue Series: “Do You Have A Moment?”
One of our ANEWIST Newsletter subscribers wrote in with a concern regarding bringing up a problem issue at her workplace. It seems that whenever she wanted talk about the issue, her supervisor wanted to cut the conversation short and avoid her. What to do?
Raising The Bar: Dealing With Negativity In The Workplace
Challenge: I’m a new manager leading a team of sales professionals. One of my associates is very negative and does minimal work. While he meets quota, he could do so much more and his negativity impacts the other members of our team. He’s been with our company for a number of years and it seems no one has done anything. How should I handle it?
HOW TO COPE WITH ABUSE in the WORKPLACE
To a narcissist-employer, the members of his “staff” are Secondary Sources of Narcissistic Supply.
Assisting You Virtually- How Virtual Assistants are changing the face of the workplace.
Virtual Assistants, or VA’s are changing the way we do business. Not only is this field growing tremendously, but it’s offering employers and business owners alike an attractive new alternative to hiring employees.
Why You, the Employer, Want Emotional Intelligence in Your Workplace
There are many good reasons to establish an Emotional Intelligence culture in your workplace. It helps with stress (Wall Street Journal, March 2003); helps you attract and retain the best employees; is a buffer against mobbing and hostile workplace; facilitates individual performance and team work (Goleman, Ph.D.); enables leaders; is highly correlated with better sales (Seligman, Ph.D.); relates to honesty, authenticity and ethics; increases creativity and flexibility for better coping with the velocity of change; helps employees communicate better; and can keep you from getting sued (Surgery, 2002).
How to Create a Successful Workplace Environment
One needed element for a successful workplace environment, in today’s world, is adaptability. The ability for the organization, as a whole, to adapt to changes in the economy and buying practices of the public, to overcome new competition or to meet the needs of the self-aware employee who is looking for advancement or growth within your structure.
Positive Reinforcement: A Cure for Workplace Woes.
The Workplace. It’s really become a stress-fest lately, hasn’t it? With reduced hiring, cutbacks and layoffs, everyone is doing more at work than ever before. Well, almost everyone. There are always those few entitled employees out there who feel that all they have to do is show up to earn their paycheck. But that’s another story altogether – and one I’ll cover in an upcoming issue!!
A Sense of Humor in the Workplace… Is it me? Or, was that not funny?
When I was first initiated into Corporate America, I had a sense of humor that went unmatched by any mortal soul. I was quick-witted, smart, sharp, and knew every gag and joke available to humanity. Most of it, I learned in college. But, college never really did teach the fact that having a sense of humor in the workplace is different than ‘jocularity.’ After a few brushes with career-chaos, I realized that the definition of ‘corporate humor’ deals with how one handles oneself and not how one can elicit laughter.
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