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Why Both Types of Recognition are Important

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Recognition Choices and Types Smart leaders recognize employees for doing fine work. Recognition can be supplied in many ways but all techniques fall into one of two categories, either formal or informal. Formal recognition involves a tangible reward and public sharing of news. Informal recognition strategies can be spontaneous or planned, delivered in private or […]

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Why Office Relationships are Easy or Difficult

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The reason why some office relationships come easy and others grate like sandpaper is very easy to explain. Because of this, there is no excuse to let negative relationships perpetuate in your life or office. Virtually all are improvable — if you choose to improve them. To turn this “I like her but do not […]

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Unexpected Termination: Now What?

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10 Tips to Help Land on Your Feet The reciprocal post-World War II loyalty bond between workers and employers has long since evaporated. Back then jobs were careers and workers enjoyed an implied assumption of continued employment. Businesses benefited because they could assume a stable, loyal workforce. Technology — specifically the invention of digital technology […]

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Signficant Emotional Events: What They Are & How They Change Lives

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2 November 2013 Our map of the world is shaped by a variety of influences during our formative years, ages 0-to-13. Contributors include our family unit, friends, relatives, religion, socioeconomic status, schooling, neighborhood, teachers, coaches, life experiences, and more. Because of these things, who we are as an adult is fairly well formed by our […]

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Office Morale: Why It Is . . . The Way It Is

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Anticipation vs. Realization Why Workplace Attitudes Are What They Are Complex dynamics — such as company morale — do not necessarily require exceedingly complex explanations. In simple terms, organizational emotions are shaped by the relationship between two things, what people expect and what they experience. What people expect. What do workers — individually and collectively […]

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Situational Management: Do You Lead or Manage?

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The term “situational management” refers to the unexpected need for decision-making driven by surfacing circumstance. These “one-offs” are usually unpredictable; and because of that they force us to act or react to make decisions and take action based on a blend of unfamiliar data points. The four steps to effective situational management are: Seek and […]

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