Your Goal For 2015 – Increase Employee Engagement
How engaged are your employees? In the 2012 Global Workforce Study, Engagement at Risk: Driving Strong Performance in a Volatile Global Environment, conducted by Towers Watson, they found that: 35% of workers are engaged 22% are unsupported 17% are detached 26% are disengaged Engaged workers scored high in: believing in company goals, having an emotional […]
Is That Your Phone Ringing?
Is That Your Phone Ringing? This past New Year’s Eve, Pope Francis called a small convent of five Carmelite nuns in Lucena, Spain. Instead of getting one of the nuns on the phone, he got an answering machine and had to leave a voice-mail message. Here is his message: “What are the nuns doing that […]
Interpersonal Skills
Dealing With Poor Interpersonal Skills Your Interpersonal Skills Coping Mechanisms No matter how much you’d like to see them change, change is an inside job. Understand that wishing won’t make it so. It’s your interpersonal skills that need to change. Once you accept this fact, things will get easier because you won’t have false […]
Office Professionals: An Invisible Talent Source
By: Rocky White Note: 2018 Administrative Professionals Week is April 23-27 and Day is April 25. This is a worldwide celebration of all Office Professionals. There are more than 4.1 million secretaries and administrative professionals in the United States today, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and 8.9 million in administrative support […]
Problem Solving: Get Out Of A Rut And On The Road To Success
How many times have we watched a fly repeatedly, frantically hurl itself against a window pane, trying to escape and reach the outside that seems so close? My guess is we’ve all watched this take place and thought to ourselves, “How can that fly be so stupid? It’s hitting its head against the glass, time […]
How To Get Support For Your Ideas
How To Get Support For Your Ideas Most of us think we’re right – most all of the time. We also think we have great ideas and know better ways to do things (especially if someone else is the one who has to execute the details). But, the truth is, there are many times when […]
How To Stay Up In A Down Economy
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Nonversations
I have a friend who always signs off on a phone call by saying, “I’ll talk atcha later.” All of a sudden, it dawned on me that that’s just what she does. She is a person who talks at me and not to me or with me. Could this be a Freudian slip on her […]
Change
Getting Employees Onboard For Change Change. Just the mere thought of dealing with an unknown and having to risk letting go of the old and familiar and taking on the new and unknown is scary. True, things could be better in the long run. But… there’s that nagging thought that things could also be worse. […]
Cathy N
Former educator, coach, Wellness Coordinator, and NFL Kansas City Chiefs Cheerleader, CATHY inspires people to get in the full swing of risk taking for personal growth and encourages organizations to build a risk taking culture. Through her interactive and insightful presentations, Cathy helps people take the risk to stretch farther — handling change, teambuilding, performance […]