Capping Off a Brilliant Idea: Simple, Seemingly Laughable Ideas Are Often the Best Ideas
Does your workplace culture encourage creativity and allow ideas space to breathe? I love, love, love these kind of stories – stories about positive change based on simple ideas. Stories that remind us all to never discount ideas that at first seem overly...
Worked Up: 7 Ways to Manage Job Burnout
Worked Up: 7 Ways to Manage Job Burnout Guest blog by Kaki Zell, Health Sciences Student The difficult thing about work-related burnout is that you often don’t know it’s happening until you’re already in deep. According to the Mayo Clinic, job burnout is “a state of...
Invest in Your Employees By Investing in Their Learning
Invest in your employees’ learning and they might stick around longer! According to LinkedIn’s 2019 Workforce Learning Report, a whopping 94% of employees say they would stay at a company longer if it invested in helping them learn! If helping you engage...
The Ha Ha Award…And Other Fun Ways to Recognize Employees
Add some fun to work with some fun awards Add some fun oomph and energy to your usual array of employee awards with some creative, offbeat awards that encourage the behaviors and attitudes you want to see more of on your team and in your workplace. Here are just a few...
Creating a Purpose Hallway…On Purpose
Are you being purposeful on purpose? A 2013 international Mercer survey found that one of the top motivational influences for employees across a wide range of businesses was having a sense of purpose in their work. Other studies suggest that one of the most important...
Four Keys to More Intentional Leadership
Leading with intention I like the term “intentional leadership” because I honestly believe that first and foremost leadership is about a mindset. It’s about a person’s attitude and willingness to step up and lead. Leadership starts when a...
Does Everyone On Your Team And In Your Company Know Your Top Workplace Priorities?
A sense of purpose at work and a sense of progress at work are two of the top motivational influences that drive performance. Without a sense of purpose, employees report feeling more disengaged, more stressed out, less happy, and less focused at work. And anyone...
How to Keep Your Hamsters Happy and Well-Rested
Shutting down the internal rat race Do you have trouble shutting down the hamster wheel? According to a study in the Journal of Applied Psychology, the less you detach psychologically during your off hours, the higher your emotional exhaustion in twelve months’...


