Never Give Up

If you could do anything with your life, without worry of financial constraints or fear, what would you do?

This is one of my favorite questions.  Ask it of yourself or someone you think you know, and either way you may be surprised at the answer.  So what is your dream?  Are you doing it now? [...]

How We Change: Driving With the Brakes On

- by Margaret Moore

It is rare today to find someone who isn’t struggling with some aspect of health and well-being: stress, overwhelm, low energy, weight fluctuation (mostly upward), health, etc. I am writing this series of brief pieces to offer insights on what it takes to get over and beyond such struggles, changing or even transforming on a small or [...]

How to Work with Someone You Don't Like

We’ve all worked with that person.  He or she seems utterly impossible. They’re loud and offensive, they destroy office relationships, they’re just plain mean. Like the bully on the playground,  no one wants to deal with them; but you’re in HR and you have to. There is a way to deal with the difficult employee [...]

10 Simple Tips for Motivating Your Employees

 

Motivation is a beautiful thing.

Sometimes the easiest things are the most effective.  These 10 tips for motivating your employees may seem overly simple at first glance; perhaps you’ll say, “Of course!  Who doesn’t know that?” But these are the sort of tips that we often forget to put into practice.  Making yourself mindful of [...]

Motivating Your Employees: Turning the Below-Average Worker into an Olympic Performer

 

 

A Misplaced Worker is an Unmotivated Worker

What if Shaun White never became a snowboarder?  What if, instead, his parents told him, “Kid, enough with the snowboarding already.  Crack into those books and aim for a respectable job.  That sport’s going nowhere anyway.”  Jump to Shaun’s adulthood:  He sits behind a desk pushing numbers as [...]