Managers, Try to Be a Little Less Scary If you’re a manager, your employees are probably intimidated by you — no matter how friendly you are — simply because of your position. And when people are intimidated, they’re less likely...

In a recent webinar on Emotional Intelligence, the following statistic was dropped in: “Employee disengagement costs $450 billion in lost productivity.” That caught my attention! So, being interested in such things, I went to the data. According to Gallup, an...

There is a current raging debate about what “organizational culture” encompasses. Some say it’s the stories we tell ourselves about the organization for which we work. Some say it is entirely top down driven – it’s the way that the...

I had a boss once that had this sign above his door: I interpreted that to mean both that it was not OK to come to him with problems…and that I should definitely NEVER cry. For many people, this is...