August 28, 4:10 am
Yesterday I related some of the ways morale was being destroyed at a friend’s workplace. After a bit of investigation, I learned the changes will cause at least 15 employees to leave – twenty percent of the workforce. And that’s just to start.
One of the reasons the company wants to make changes is to save […]
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August 27, 4:08 am
The following list is by no means exhaustive — there are thousands of ways to kill employee morale. But here are a few that emerged from a conversation with a friend of mine the other day. He was sharing with me some of the changes going on at his work, and talking about the number of […]
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August 11, 11:19 pm
The following story is true. The names and places have been changed to protect the innocent—and the guilty…
About a year ago Jordan’s dream job finally fell into place. His company transferred him to one of their manufacturing plants in the south where he would serve as a process improvement specialist—a newly created position for his […]
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July 21, 1:01 pm
I have to hand it to Matt Bacak, a.k.a. “The Powerful Promoter.” He IS persistent. And boy, does he promote! And promote! And promote! Even when you ask him to stop.
Mr. Bacak promotes himself as someone who can show you how to promote your business. And since I’m launching several niche business efforts, I signed […]
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July 16, 2:24 pm
This week the Center for Workplace Excellence was featured on the Zion’s Bank radio spot, Speaking on Business. You can hear it using the mp3 player at the bottom of this post.
For those outside of the Intermountain West who may be unfamiliar with the spot, Fred Ball, retired executive, former president of the Salt Lake City […]

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July 8, 5:32 am
This week’s ASTD’s Buzz newsletter tells us that the average worker received 35.06 hours of training in 2006. (see ASTD State of the Industry Report)
Okay, 35 hours is the average.
What’s interesting is that companies demonstrating enterprise-wide success as a result of well planned training and development are delivering an average of 44.34 hours of training […]
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July 7, 10:54 am
by Dan Bobinski
At a recent business breakfast I learned something about a potential vendor that made me decide not to do business with that person—The person’s bad manners.
Here’s what happened:
The menu was large and had a good variety to choose from, but nothing seemed to “fit” for this person. In a disgusted voice, the person […]
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