As your manager, my most important, long-term project is you. In fact, my job is to help you write your résumé.
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Often, an idle comment made by an employee speaks volumes about their work environment. Consider a message sent via the social networking site Twitter.
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We’re all familiar with the popular sign: “Employees must wash hands before returning to work.” What we may not know or realize is that such a sign may convey different meanings that could negatively impact consumers. So how can workplace artifacts be improved?

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Recently, someone forwarded us a screenshot from an online survey for a noted market research company. The image shows a confusing question with a rather obvious answer.
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When it comes to emails, phone calls and even texting, being long-winded or vague does more than lose the attention of your audience. It wreaks havoc on a person’s productivity. I should know. It took three emails, three voicemails and nearly five hours to receive an answer to one question. Read on »

In this tough economy, many companies are looking at other ways to reward employees besides the traditional raise. A new article makes ten distinct suggestions, but will these increase productivity or just damage morale further?
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On occasion I help out with one of the hospitality programs at our church: coffee and donuts after the service. You might be shocked just at the level of planning involved in such a simple task.
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Changing your habits at work doesn’t have as much to do with work as you might think. For advice on how to be more effective in becoming more productive, we turn to the world of dieting.
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One might think that government employees at the Texas Railroad Commission would take great pride in taking care of trains in the Lone Star State. It’s too bad, then, that the agency has no authority over railroads.
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Though it consists of merely six letters, one of the most straightforward words in the English language is C-H-A-N-G-E.  Yet two prominent groups see a need for further simplification of this term.

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