Removing Obstacles to Success
January 31, 9:54 am
Getting out of bed and going through your “get ready for work” routine is probably ritualistic. And as we look in the mirror, we probably don’t realize the power we give our own reflection.
We look; the mirror reflects back, and because the reflection doesn’t line up with our standards for public consumption, we make adjustments. Hair, make up, clothes - […]
January 28, 2:57 pm
This morning I received a ‘help request’ from someone being sabotaged through workplace bullying.
The writer (let’s call her Tonya) described a manipulative peer’s behavior, and sure enough it was a bull’s eye definition of passive-aggressiveness and bullying:
“She’s a peer, but she says she should be my boss and she wants to fire me. She gets […]
January 25, 3:47 am
This past Tuesday, the Florida Times-Union (the same paper that broke the Colin Bruley story) had a piece about a paranoid worker who lost her cool and got a tad vengeful — unnecessarily.
Marie Lupe Cooley was an admin assistant at a small architect firm in Jacksonville (emphasis on ‘was’). I won’t repeat all the details […]
January 23, 1:10 pm
Longtime readers know that I’m a fan of Gary Harpst’s work. His Six Disciplines for Excellence book made the top of my recommended reading list for 2007, and his Six Disciplines company is helping companies do what they NEED to do to achieve excellence.
So I was pretty tickled when the Six Disciplines company asked me to […]
January 17, 4:32 pm
Here’s a scenario: You’re training in a new location. You enter the training room for the first time and wince: The seating arrangement is “auditorium” style, and worse yet, all the tables and chairs are bolted to the floor.
This scenario was described by a friend of mine over lunch the other day. She’s teaching a […]
January 15, 12:12 pm
Time once again to remind all readers that learning in the workplace is perfectly okay. To admit you don’t know everything is not an admission of guilt, and best of all, you won’t be incarcerated for it.
Nor will anyone think less of us if we admit we don’t know something
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January 11, 4:20 am
In my upbringing I was taught a fairly common saying: “Respect my elders.” Over the years, I’ve placed many question marks around the wisdom of that teaching. Reason: Sometimes we experience workplace conflict in which our “elders” aren’t necessary acting in a manner that earns respect.
However, now that I’m pushing the ½-century mark, I think […]
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