If you are thinking of quitting your job for green pastures, don’t leave without having an honest conversation with your boss about why you’re leaving – even if it’s about their leadership style! In fact, especially if it’s about their leadership style! You owe it to your company, your colleagues,your family, and to yourself to…
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So, what exactly is this beast called workplace culture? There are many definitions of workplace culture, but it’s surprising, given how important workplace culture is, how many leaders have only a vague sense of what workplace culture really is. If you are going to hire with your workplace culture in mind, onboard and train for…
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If you want to be happier more often at work (and I’m guessing you do) then I think it helps to be aware of some of the mindsets and behaviors that are known happiness thieves. And no, I’m not talking about Bob in accounting. Here are the biggest happiness-thieves to be on the look out…
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Ideas are the currency of success in any business. But for ideas to flourish and thrive, you need to intentionally create a culture of innovation and a culture that values creativity. And you need to embrace the power of small ideas making a huge difference in your workplace. Partial Transcript of the Video, taken from…
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One of my longtime Inspiring Workplaces newsletter subscribers, Waldo Berg, provided this inspiration for a fun work idea. Hold a contest in your workplace to come up with the best collective noun to describe a group of your colleagues, based either on your profession or your company, as in: a “knot of toads,” “murder of…
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Here’s a partial list of some of the fun, wacky, offbeat and not-so-wacky holidays and theme days for the month of June, 2024. Celebrating these, recognizing these theme days is a very simple way to bring a little fun and humor into your workplace. For some ideas on how to make use of some of…
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