Category: Employee Development

  • Here’s to Your Health: Everyone Needs More Laughter at Work!

    Remember in school, when you got into trouble for laughing, and disrupting the class? Everyone was told to settle down or you were sent to the principals office…for laughing

  • Your Health Matters: How to Stay Awake in Your Most Boring Meeting

    Nodding off during the day can be embarrassing. Discover why this happens and how to prevent it. By Beth W. Orenstein Medically Reviewed by Farrokh Sohrabi, MD Nearly 40 percent of Americans fall asleep unintentionally during the day.  It happens all the time and it happen s to everyone, at least now and then: falling asleep in…

  • Insights into The Impact of Office Automation

      by Margaret Wood 7/11/2017 12:50 PM Updated 7/12/2017 Optimization of Performance With the responsibilities of optimizing the performance of people and leading business functions, comes the additonal responsibility of paying attention to the huge impact automation will have on your workforce and organization. How AND how well work gets done will change with the addition of machines and cognitive systems…

  • When Your Boss Just Won’t Listen

    t is very frustrating when you talk to your boss and he or she won’t listen. Your repeated attempts at getting your thoughts across fall on deaf ears and you don’t feel respected or valued. If this is a problem you face at work, then you might need to change your approach to communicating…

  • 10 Traits of Managers Whose Teams Are Happy to Come to Work

    A dictatorial manager who lacks empathy or insight may produce but high turnover will cause them to ultimately fail. Excellent managers do their best to make 80 percent of the job rewarding, with a 20 percent balance of healthy stress…