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”):

Workplace Communication 201: It’s What You Say AND How You Say It

Effective communication in the workplace requires thought, planning, and a good dose of people savvy. Whether you're delivering dicey performance evaluation, addressing a peer, or asking the boss for a much-deserved promotion, you can improve your odds of being heard. Here are some helpful strategies and techniques...

Color Your World to Productivity

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

How To Deal With A Toxic Co-Worker

Let me guess: You love your job, your boss is a gem and the company is solid and treats their employees well. However, life is becoming unbearable in your department! Is one employee causing grief by spreading negative rumors about you or just making life unbearable? Learn how to deal effectively with a Toxic Employee.

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!

Employee Development

In team-based organizations, opportunities for promotion come rarely. So how do you provide opportunities for team members to grow and develop?

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.

Emerging Trend - Is God at Work in Corporate America?

Jesus is moving in the American marketplace. Read on and discover what He's doing there and how YOUR business can get involved.

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.

Is Your Work Making You Sick?

Did you know that the indoor climate in a third of all modern office buildings is inadequate and that as a result absence due to illness is much higher than it should be? A Norwegian study found that introducing plants to the workplace decreased absenteeism from 15% to 5%. It also found that placing a plant near a worker could save a company up to 10% of a person’s salary. If you take the average wage as being $50,000 – each plant placed near a worker is actually worth at least $5,000.

Whose Responsibility is It to Provide the Context for Work - Life Integration?

Modern organisations provide the context through which much of our work is conducted and structures and systems are established to achieve organisational objectives. From the moment the employee enters an organisation, his/her activities are defined and bounded by their job. Their behaviour and expectations are influenced by the explicit and implicit expectations of that role and act as a barometer of how they are doing, both inside and outside of the organisation. Despite some alignment between individual and organisational objectives, radically different perspectives exist from the outset.

Globalization of English: Communicating Intelligibly

The advent of modern technology, especially the Internet, has made access easier and cheaper to people worldwide such that it helped speed up globalization. Along with it, the transfer of International Assignees across geographical borders perpetuates the use of the English language. That has never been as pervasive or as widely, although variations of the language and degree of fluency differ from country to country, individual to individual.

Why You Need Contemporary Office Furniture

Can using contemporary office furniture make a difference in either you or your employees' attitude and work output? The answer may surprise you. As you'll discover in this article, furniture style can indeed influence work quality and worker happiness.

A Special Person

Have you ever known a person who works hard, volunteers without question and seeks no recognition?