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Why Millennials Are the Most Stressed Out Generation

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A recent survey commissioned by the American Psychological Association measured the relative stress levels of four generations: Matures (Post-WWII workers, aged 67+) Boomers (48-to-66) Gen Xers (34-to-47) Millennials (Gen Y, ages 18-to-33) For clarity’s sake, we’ll define anxiety and stress this way: “The unpleasant emotional state consisting of psychological and physiological responses to anticipation of […]

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How to Repair A Relationship

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Whether at work or home, relationships erode because of four things: 1.     Criticism 2.     Contempt 3.     Being too defensive 4.     Stonewalling. Criticism Criticism is marked by attacks and negativity, the usual tricks of a bully. These stinging attacks hit especially hard on those whose personalities are meek or submissive, or who do not possess a […]

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Why Many Sales Coaches Aren’t as Good as They Think

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I read an article recently from the Corporate Executive Board (CEB) in Washington, D. C. that shed some light on the dearth of coaches and excess of managers (and micromanagers) in many sales organizations. The culprits: situation and circumstance. It also seems that a perception gap exists between how sales managers see themselves as coaches […]

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Why Worker Burnout is Escalating at an Alarming Rate

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ComPsych Corp., a Chicago-based employee assistance consulting company, recently release some startling information based on a survey of nearly 2,000 workers. Since ComPsych provides programs for more than 17,000 organizations and 45 million employees worldwide, they are in a strong position to accurately read the pulse of the current American work force. A couple key […]

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How to Deal with the Stress of Superstorm Sandy

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Like 9/11, Hurricane-turned-Superstorm Sandy bodyslammed a nation Monday, pulverizing the northeastern seaboard with the force of billions in damages with dozens of lives lost. For millions, cleanup and recovery will be long and difficult. Problems no one dreamed of a week ago are now floating around the neighborhood. Whenever we are forced to deal with […]

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6 Reasons Why Your First Loss is Usually Your Best Loss

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Financial decisions, especially those made during tight economic times, are harder to make than those of previous times of prosperity. Especially dicey are tough calls that demand a difficult decision to hang on or cut the cord. No one makes the right decision all the time, but some draw better conclusions than others. Listed below […]

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Never Lose Sight of Your Best Alternative

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Choices — and the decisions we make — determine which roads we travel. Some of those decisions will be right, some wrong, and a few may require a U-turn and do-over. All of this is fine and normal. Little in life follows a straight, predictable path. Because decision-making is an imprecise science, life is never […]

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The 3-Day Rule: How to Deal with Disappointment

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For the past six weeks I have been eyeballs-deep mediating a heck of a mess. The goal — an executive and company divorce — has so many interwoven business and emotional complexities that a bearable solution tied to an volatile transition seems like a rainbow jackpot: teasing, elusive, close yet unattainable. But now we are […]

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Why Worker Worries are Changing

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Results of a recent survey by Harris Interactive caught my eye due to its revealing evidence of behavioral change in the American workplace. Elizabeth Olson wrote a beautiful piece about this in Fortune and I thought the subject of her work is timely to share. When the economy went in the tank four years ago […]

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