Category: Working Life
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Empowerment Difficulties – Employees That Don’t Wanna
Employee Empowerment Can Meet Up With Resistance and Conflict Empowering Employees Can Yield Unexpected Conflict and Resistance! Thorny Problems Empowerment Difficulties Question: Over the last few month I have been trying to encourage my staff to take on more responsibility,…
Turning Around Negative Attitudes
Learn to deal with negative people at work Attacking negativity in the workplace: Organization Improvement Turning Around Negative Attitudes At one time or another, organizations develop an over-abundance of “negative energy” or attitudes. Sometimes they can be linked to organizational trauma,…
Toxic Organizations – Welcome To The Fire Of An Unhealthy Workplace
Unhealthy Workplaces – Toxic Organizations Toxic Organizations Cause Conflict – The Remedy Is Leadership Summary: Some organizations have climates that are unhealthy for those that work in them. We call these organizations toxic organizations. Within toxic organizations conflict thrives like…
Winning With The Impossible Colleague: You can’t shoot difficult colleagues, but you can manage the relationship to reduce aggravation and disruption
The Challenge For the past few years I have had to work fairly extensively with a colleague who is just impossible. He is arrogant, stubborn, sometimes abusive, and acts like he is right about almost everything. At first I tried…
Support Your Support Staff So They Can Support You
They usually do the most repetitive job tasks. They answer the phones, keep things organized, keep track of finances, make sure you have what you need when you need it, and are often the first contact a customer or member…
Dealing With The Human Road Runner Employee
In a previous article we discussed the plight of Mary Duncan, Director of the Income Security Branch, who had to contend with John, the human speed bump. John’s tended to shoot holes in new ideas, procrastinate, and generally hold to…
