How Do You Add Humor and Create a More Fun Work Environment in a Highly Conservative Company? I frequently hear a similar lament from clients and audience members: “We work in a very conservative company so how can we bring more humor and fun into our workplace when it’s such a conservative environment?” My answer…
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Isn’t Sarcasm at Work Just Great? Or Am I Being Sarcastic Right Now? A friend recently threatened to buy me a t-shirt emblazoned with the following: “Zero Days Without Sarcasm” So, evidently, I can be just a wee bit sarcastic from time to time. Which is completely normal and fine when we’re chilling with our…
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I was pondering the term “quiet quitting” – the overused pandemic-induced phrase referring to how many employees, in response to shifting priorities, were doing the minimum requirements of one’s job and putting in no more time, effort, or enthusiasm than necessary. As I pondered the term (pondering by the way, is one of my favorite…
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What’s one of the biggest morale-suckers in any workplace? A survey by executive coach Marshall Goldsmith aligns with other research that sadly suggests that most employees spend 10 hours or more per month complaining about their managers or listening to other employees complain. And that doesn’t even include the time spent complaining about peers or…
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Welcome to January 2025! Here is a by-no-means-complete list of some of the offbeat, fun, wacky and not-so-wacky theme days headed your way this January! Celebrating these theme days, even just by listing them on a whiteboard in the lunch room, or acknowledging them in your emails or voice mail messages, is a…
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The hilarious satirical website The Onion posted an article Monday titled, “Man Returns To Work After Vacation With Fresh, Re-energized Hatred For Job.” I fear, sadly, that many people will find this headline funny because it hits too close to home. Even if you’re not returning from a vacation, you might be one of the…
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