Places like Chile and Columbia have a 6 day work week. Not so for us in the United States. Years back, Dolly Parton sang a song that reflected what was “the norm”. People that worked hard and provided for their families worked 40 hours a week and were proud of it. Working from nine to [...]
How to Love your Job and the People we Work With
Love your job? Yes. Love going to work? Yes. Love the people that we work with? Next question please. This scenario is very common to most of us. We love our job, we love going to work but when it comes to the people that we work with, well, not so much. So what do [...]
Why I Love My Job
Yes, I do love my job. I am a community news journalist. I work where I live. I write about the people that I interact with on a daily basis. My children go to school with the same children that I often write about. I live in your typical small town America. People know each [...]
How to Minimize Stress at Work
Work can be a stressful place, with many demands on your time and energy. If you experience too much stress at work, however, it can lead to diminished performance and unhappiness. It’s important, therefore, that you minimize the stress you experience as much as possible. Luckily, you can make your work life less stressful. Here [...]
How to be Liked at Work
We all would like to be liked at work. Not only is it an important aspect of enjoying your job, but the way your coworkers perceive you is important for your performance and success in the workplace. A well liked person is more likely to be respected in management positions or to be promoted. So, [...]
Are Psychologists, Sociologists or Philosophers of Any Value in the Workplace?
I’ve heard it discussed whether or not psychologists, sociologists, or philosophers are of any value in the workplace? The fact that people are having these discussions surprises me, because while these may be soft sciences or social sciences, they still yield results which are valuable to society. While I will agree that philosophy on its [...]
How Important Is It To Enjoy Your Job?
Enjoying your job is crucial to your wellbeing. Whether you work out of necessity or simply because you want to, having a job you enjoy, versus a job that makes you miserable will help set the tone of your attitude toward the rest of your life. Having worked at both jobs I loved and hated, [...]
How to Change your Work Routines
Carol rushes through traffic while she applies her lipstick, downs her coffee and granola bar, and reads her notes for her first client. She finds she is always just on time to work and always frazzled and a bit behind. Although her boss is pleased with her work, Carol never seems to get the really [...]
How to Say No Without Causing Resentment
No matter what your role in life, learning how to say no to someone is one of the most difficult tasks you’ll ever have to master. It often takes a lot of courage, especially if you are sympathetic toward the requester’s plight. The thought of turning someone down can easily cause anxiety attacks and turn [...]
How to Encourage Teamwork
What does teamwork really means? Sometimes, it can really be hard to practice motivate people in your team, let alone, work with a team. Many people enjoy being ‘lone wolves’. The idea of doing things alone with no fear of someone else harming the work already accomplished or just plain not even doing any of [...]
How to Encourage your Employees to Think for Themselves
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Being a leader is really not a walk in the park. Am I right? Leadership takes courage, integrity, balance, focus and a lot more. Now, if you are the leader of the team, how do you make your team follow your rules and guidelines? How do you strive to groom your team to productivity? I [...]
Aligning Personal and Organizational Values for Business Competitiveness
Whether you are aware of this or not, your values lie at the core of your personality and the culture of your organization. Based on your value system, you decide what is important, which people to trust, what goals are worth pursuing, how we adapt to change, and what moral or ethical choices to make. [...]
Changing the Organizational Culture for Quality Leadership
You probably know that past success is not a guarantee for the future. Continuous organizational change is needed for a business organization to sustain its leadership position in the industry. Managers who manage an organization dedicated to quality must understand the necessary changes such as cultural change, continuous improvement, and re-engineering. Being committed to producing [...]
Workplace Spirituality Improves Personal and Professional Well-Being
Spirituality can play a role not only in your personal life but also in your everyday dealings with colleagues and other people. Spirituality works best in cross-functional interactions where team spirit and self-sacrifice are needed so that effective team collaboration can be achieved. A person’s spirituality can be considered as the continuing search for inner [...]
Being Connected Spiritually Reduces Stress in the Workplace
Today’s workplace is often loaded with pressure-filled activities that often result in unbearable stress and worries in ourselves and in others. While stress and worries are considered daily work realities, decreasing their occurrence can be emotionally useful to our already peace-deprived bodies. Reducing stress in the workplace requires a person’s willingness to appreciate nature and [...]