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Break This Summer BEFORE You Break!
Breaking Up is Sometimes Too Easy to Do, So Take a Break!
We interrupt our usual format at Humor at Work because it’s time
for our annual summer break. Now a recent survey I came upon
suggests fewer people are taking their vacations than ever before,
which prompts the question, “What’s wrong with these people?”.
So I want to remind [...]
Is a Noisy Workplace Adding to Your Stress?
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?
A Globe and Mail newspaper survey found the following workplace noises the most irksome: loud talking (47%); cell phones (16%); co-workers listening to music/playing games (12%); speaker phones(10%). (The noise issue links to a curious trend in Japan where young people are buying “therapeutic ring tones”
for their cell phones, which promise [...]
Ask Inspiring Questions to Create Inspiring Workplaces
Before they implement a new idea or change in policy, Atlanta
Refrigeration Service asks the following questions:
- Is it right for our customers?
- Is it right for our employees?
- Is it right for our community?
- Is it right for the environment?
- Is it what we want to be known and remembered for?
- Does it reflect our [...]
Dancing Lessons on Leadership, on Humor at Work
This fabulous video illustrates a great lesson about both leadership and follower-ship. The exact same lesson applies when people ask me about to transform their workplace into a more fun, humor-filled, innovative, creative, enthusiastic, inspiring workplace! It takes not only a “lone nut” but the early followers to build momentum towards a tipping point: [...]
Humor at Work: Workplace Spirit Boosted by Humor in the Workplace
Humor at Work, May 26, 2010 Issue 353 ==================================================================
How’s Your Spirit Working for You?
One of the definitions of spirit is “the enthusiasm and loyalty
somebody feels through belonging to a group.” Now spirit may seem
like a trite or cliché term to talk about workplace [...]