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August 13, 2015 Sherman Morrison
In this fourth and final installment in the series about emotional traps in the workplace and what you can do about them, I take a look at what authors Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster have to say in Working with You is Killing Me about managing down as well as asking the ultimate question: Should […]
read moreAugust 13, 2015 Sherman Morrison
In this third installment about workplace emotional traps based on the book Working with You is Killing Me, I’m taking a look at what authors Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster recommend in terms of dealing with your higher-ups in the form of supervisors, managers, and bosses. The most important thing to understand about inept higher-ups […]
read moreAugust 13, 2015 Sherman Morrison
In this second of the four-part Workplace Emotional Traps series, I’ll be sharing some thoughts from authors Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster about the roles you play at work, especially the constraining or confining ones you don’t really want, and what to do about relationships with coworkers that start out just fine but seem to […]
read moreAugust 13, 2015 Sherman Morrison
As much as we hate to admit it, if we’re honest with ourselves we can probably all admit there’s at least one person at work that just drives you crazy. There might even be several. Hopefully none of them are your boss or immediate supervisor, but that happens all too often as well. In a […]
read moreJuly 9, 2015 Sherman Morrison
The opening article of this four-part series set the stage for what it is that workers need from their employers to feel enthusiastic about their jobs. The second article explored details of equity and fair treatment while the third article drilled down into six aspects of achievement. In this fourth and final installment of the […]
read moreJuly 7, 2015 Sherman Morrison
“Enlisting the willing cooperation of a workforce in achieving the aims of an enterprise is impossible unless people have a sense of elemental fairness in the way they are treated.” ~ The Enthusiastic Employee, page 11. In this second article of the four-part series on enthusiasm in the workplace, the focus is on the first […]
read moreApril 15, 2015 Sherman Morrison
Actress Patricia Arquette, in accepting the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress at the 87th Academy Awards ceremony on February 22, said these impassioned words: To every woman who gave birth, to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation, we have fought for everybody else’s equal rights. It’s our time to have wage equality once and […]
read moreApril 15, 2015 Sherman Morrison
Remember the concept of just in time? JIT originated as a production strategy popularized by Toyota to increase the return on investment by greatly reducing in-process inventory and all the costs that go along with it. Rather than having materials sitting around waiting to be used, companies got very specific and detailed around having materials […]
read moreApril 15, 2015 Sherman Morrison
It’s all too easy to lose sight of some of the basic characteristics of what makes for a great workplace. One of those basics is customer service. If you’re in the talent management or HR department, you might think customer service doesn’t apply to you, but it does. Rather than the customer being external to […]
read moreApril 2, 2015 Sherman Morrison
You’ve no doubt heard the classic student excuse for not bringing a completed homework assignment to class – the dog ate it. Kids say the craziest things, right? Well, adults can apparently say some pretty wild things too, especially when coming up with excuses for not showing up to work. I thought it was time […]
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