A new year feels like a new beginning. It’s an opportunity to hit refresh on our personal and professional lives, to embrace change, cultivate growth and set forth on a path of renewed determination. Below are 10 New Year’s resolutions to help you chart a course for workplace success, enhanced productivity and professional fulfillment in 2024. #1: Tidy Up Tidying [...]
In recent years, mental health has become a significant concern globally. People are now more vocal about mental health, which reduces associated stigmas. However, the consequences of mental health struggles are often still not widely talked about in many workplaces. May is a great time to raise awareness of those living with mental health issues because it is Mental Health [...]
In August 2021, I wrote about Kantola Training Solutions and its effective and successful harassment prevention and diversity, equity and training programs. (My previous blog is “Looking for Resources for a Healthy Workplace” in case you’re interested.) Since that time, Kantola released a new family of online harassment prevention training, including employee and manager courses with versions specific to many [...]
Transformations to the digital world and workplace are happening all the time and impact how we interact with our organizations daily. This shift has emphasized the need for collaborative tools, new communication techniques, increased security and maintenance of competency as team members span across various locations and business practices shift. Keeping up with the times is difficult enough on a [...]
This month, we approach the one-year anniversary of the coronavirus pandemic hitting the U.S. While it is a grim milestone, we are not without hope, as we’ve seen the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna, and the recently authorized vaccine from Johnson & Johnson. President Joe Biden expects the U.S. to deliver enough coronavirus vaccines for all adults by [...]
If you run a business or manage employees, you may be accustomed to the evaluations that can estimate how successful your workers are. You analyze people’s productivity, the quality of their work, or qualitative feedback from customers and co-workers to ascertain the value they bring to the company. However, people don’t work in a vacuum. The environment, including policies and [...]
We’re seldom prepared when death touches our lives. We often feel blindsided and left in a daze, wondering how to move forward. Yet, like clockwork Monday comes, and we’re expected to be at the office. Sometimes that Monday is a few months away, sometimes it’s a few weeks and sometimes Monday is the very next day. Regardless, it always seems [...]