Category: Workplace Culture

  • How to tell your boss you’re overwhelmed

    By Sharlyn Lauby | November 6, 2017 Workplace stress is a real issue. According to a survey conducted by Everest College, eight in ten employees are stressed by at least one thing at work. When you start drilling down for specifics about what those individual stressors might be, workload is tops on the list. A survey from employee assistance…

  • THE TOP 50 COMPLIMENTS FOR TEAM MEMBERS

    by Justin Reynolds on Aug 24, 2016 10:00:00 AM In performance reviews, words of appreciation for employees consistently impacts the happiness of an organization and employee productivity. According to a CareerBuilder survey, 50% of employees indicated they believed turnover would decrease if managers simply recognized their efforts more frequently. From a productivity standpoint, 40% of employees said they were unlikely to…

  • How to Resolve a Conflict with a Co-Worker

    By Sharlyn Lauby | June 27, 2018 It’s inevitable: Conflict is going to happen in the workplace. We won’t get along with everyone. However, we also can’t let tensions bottle up and create stress. According to The American Institute of Stress, “people issues” are the number two cause of workplace stress. Finding a way to…

  • How to Stop Procrastinating

    By Lila MacLellan  January 15, 2018 To be human is to procrastinate. Exceptions exist, but most of us can identify at least one area of our imperfect lives (whether it’s our health, home, work, or relationships), where, for no justifiable reason, we routinely delay doing that thing(or series of small thingies) that would improve the present moment or…

  • A Swedish Tradition that Brings You Back to Center – FIKA

    By Lila MacLellan June 13, 2018 Excerpts from article written for GRIT Issue #17 According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Canadians work fewer hours per week than Americans. The Canadian government also mandates 10 paid days of vacation per year (about half of what’s guaranteed in most of Europe and in Australia), while the…