10 Reasons You MUST Give Employees a Greater Voice at Work!
Here are 10 critical reasons you MUST give employees a greater voice at work – and I could easily add another ten, I’m sure. If you want to create an inspiring workplace culture and drive greater employee engagement, collaboration, innovation, and...
Banishing Burnout in the Workplace – Why Preventing Burnout Can’t Be Left Up to Employees
A few years ago, the World Health Organization officially recognized the phenomenon of workplace burnout as a serious health concern. This recognition of workplace burnout has helped shift the conversation away from putting the entire onus on the individual to...
How Focusing on Customer Experience Can Drive Employee Engagement
I was completely delighted by an automated email response I recently received after placing an order for deodorant. Yes, a simple ten-dollar purchase for an everyday product resulted in me telling thousands of people about my experience with this company! Why? Because...
How to Add More Humor and Fun in a Conservative, Traditional Company
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...
Sarcasm in the Workplace: Does Sarcasm Have Any Place in a Business Setting?
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...
Instead of “Quiet Quitting” Focus on Your Quiet Heroes and a Culture of Quiet Excellence
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...
The Power of Purposeful Complaining to Create a More Inspiring Workplace
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...
Fun January Theme Days
Welcome to January 2026 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...


